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SJ29 – Sex, Innovation, and Morality for Startups StartupJab
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We’re living on the edge today: Jason and Teague are recording from the same location at WeWork Wonder Bread Factory.
Links and Highlights:
Let’s get ready to DROOOOOOONE.
Can drone racing become as big as eSports?
The Drone Racing League Wants to Be to Drones What the WWE Is to Wrestling
* “Explosions and money are the center of any good venn diagram.”
* “Like any other sport, there’s already a push to sensationalize it and ‘sexy’ it up… The sport is not even out of the hospital bassinet.”
Jason and Teague toss out a FREE BUSINESS IDEA for our listeners. If you steal it and launch it, please make us VIP customers, #kthx.
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is
* “Today, folks are often thrown to the wolves in a lot of ways: sink or swim. It’s a lot harder to find the kind of support you once got, where someone said, ‘I’m going to pay your bills so you can go build things.'”
* “There’s a reason we keep doing Shakespeare, and a reason we keep bringing up penicillin.”
* “When you give a mind an opportunity to just be told, ‘go try something and don’t worry about failure,’ there’s real opportunity there… I don’t think potential trumps experience, but potential and experience should balance each other.”
* “One of the great ways startups can get a leg up is by hiring people who punch above their weight; finding people who have enormous people who haven’t been given their shot yet.”
Zenefits Founder Resigns
* “Is what you’re doing actually harming consumers or harming competition? Is there a problem with pushing those boundaries, whether that problem is purely legal or whether there’s a moral issue at stake?”
* “In a lot of ways we have a culture that advocates for screwing up, sometimes intentionally breaking laws and regulations, and then just apologize for it, mea culpa, pay a fine, and move on.”
* “The moral question is, who’s being hurt by the laws that you’re breaking?”
* “Zenefits is the latest in a series of very public companies that have skirted laws and done things that they know are immoral, and as a culture, how okay are we with that?”
New startup aims to transfer people’s consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever – TechSpot
* “This is the beginning of every schlocky sci-fi novel I’ve ever read. Every single one.” (Here’s the definition of schlocky, btw.)
* “We’re talking about condemning ourselves to a ones and zeroes existence because we’re afraid of dying.”
Questions from Quora:
“As a non-technical co-founder,
We’re living on the edge today: Jason and Teague are recording from the same location at WeWork Wonder Bread Factory.
Links and Highlights:
Let’s get ready to DROOOOOOONE.
Can drone racing become as big as eSports?
The Drone Racing League Wants to Be to Drones What the WWE Is to Wrestling
* “Explosions and money are the center of any good venn diagram.”
* “Like any other sport, there’s already a push to sensationalize it and ‘sexy’ it up… The sport is not even out of the hospital bassinet.”
Jason and Teague toss out a FREE BUSINESS IDEA for our listeners. If you steal it and launch it, please make us VIP customers, #kthx.
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is
* “Today, folks are often thrown to the wolves in a lot of ways: sink or swim. It’s a lot harder to find the kind of support you once got, where someone said, ‘I’m going to pay your bills so you can go build things.'”
* “There’s a reason we keep doing Shakespeare, and a reason we keep bringing up penicillin.”
* “When you give a mind an opportunity to just be told, ‘go try something and don’t worry about failure,’ there’s real opportunity there… I don’t think potential trumps experience, but potential and experience should balance each other.”
* “One of the great ways startups can get a leg up is by hiring people who punch above their weight; finding people who have enormous people who haven’t been given their shot yet.”
Zenefits Founder Resigns
* “Is what you’re doing actually harming consumers or harming competition? Is there a problem with pushing those boundaries, whether that problem is purely legal or whether there’s a moral issue at stake?”
* “In a lot of ways we have a culture that advocates for screwing up, sometimes intentionally breaking laws and regulations, and then just apologize for it, mea culpa, pay a fine, and move on.”
* “The moral question is, who’s being hurt by the laws that you’re breaking?”
* “Zenefits is the latest in a series of very public companies that have skirted laws and done things that they know are immoral, and as a culture, how okay are we with that?”
New startup aims to transfer people’s consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever – TechSpot
* “This is the beginning of every schlocky sci-fi novel I’ve ever read. Every single one.” (Here’s the definition of schlocky, btw.)
* “We’re talking about condemning ourselves to a ones and zeroes existence because we’re afraid of dying.”
Questions from Quora:
“As a non-technical co-founder,
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