Beat The Odds with Dre, Rodney, & Brylan

Ep 17: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how the founder of Frank, a financial app for college students, tricked JP Morgan Chase into a $175M acquisition, how AI companies should approach bias results, ChatGPT premium plus plan, and much more ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodn...

Today's episode is a new series called ChatGPG (Give People Game) where Dre and Brylan delve into the latest in AI, exploring its effects on business, culture, and society. Today we discuss: AI platform Hugging Face is building a community of the future with over 100k open sourced models Google's MusicML using natural language to generate original music Hollywood utilizing Nvidia's technology to e...

Ep 16: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) welcome David Alston as their first guest. David is the CEO and Founder of Kickstroid , a cutting-edge app that offers accurate resale predictions for hot releases, tailored sneaker recommendations, and in-depth analysis of sneaker culture. David is also a Program Manager at Microsoft. In today's episode, we delve into the w...

Ep 15: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss recent security hacks with LastPass, how the founder of social app Gas sold his company twice for $20M+, black Twitter's response to Mielle Organics selling their beauty brand to P&G, FDA approves new technology for testing, and much more. 

Ep 14: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) breakdown Microsoft's $10B OpenAI investment, how artists and content creators are selling their back content catalog for millions, a private network for ultra-high net worth individuals and much more!    -----  Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney...

Ep 13: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the advantages of being a second time startup founder and the lessons they've learned while building businesses and working at some of the fastest growing companies in history. ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twi...

Ep 12: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the big surprises of 2022, wild predictions for 2023 like TikTok getting banned in the US, Google search being disputed by AI bots, and we breakdown the strategy we think OpenAI might take to own the future of AI, and much more. ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.li...

Ep 10: Dre ( @DreUnlimited ), Rodney ( @Rg2official ), and Brylan ( @0xHimzel ) discuss Deion Sanders leaving Jackson State, how Twitter is failing to protect children, the business behind OnlyFan, and much more. ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss how Lensa AI is making $1M+ in daily revenue, opportunities for founders using AI, startup lessons from the early days of scaling Bird scooters into one of the fastest-growing companies, and much more.   ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official Link...

Dre, Rodney, and Brylan discuss the hype around OpenAI's new API chatGPT, the downsides of trusting AI too early, how Google Search is under attack, if Apple is too dominant to compete against, and much more.     ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss the sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes, new updates on the FTX collapse, the pressures of venture capital, and much more. ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan Twitter: https://twitter.com/0...

Dre, Rodney, and Brylan discuss the rapid collapse of FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and our thoughts on the list of demands from the Brooklyn Nets for Kyrie Irving.  ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan Twitte...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss the hard lessons of being a startup founder, Elon's recent takeover of social media giant Twitter, how black founders raised less than 1% of funding in Q3, and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/i...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss the recent news of Adobe purchasing Figma for $20B, Apple exploiting its market position, Polygon building the future of financial infrastructure, and why Steve Jobs looked up to Edwin Land.  ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https:...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss how a small company started in 1995 grew to be worth $50B with $2B in annual profit, steps to take for building a personal brand, the corporate headwinds faced by Kanye West, Google's kill switch and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2offic...

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss how second time founders get more chances at bat, how Mailchimp went from zero to a $12B exit without taking VC money, and highlights from LA Tech Week.  ---- Social Links: Dre Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ B...

Dre, Rodney, and Brylan talk about a financial conference making $100M annually, crazy use cases for how AI could replace human creativity, how Disney+ surpassed Netflix, and if LinkedIn can crack the creator economy. 

Dre, Brylan, and Rodney discuss navigating through a recession as an early-stage founder, whether Facebook should worry about TikTok, and what's happening at LA Tech Week.