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We kick off with a glance at Apple's new VR headset and explore the limitless horizons of Photoshop’s new AI image manipulation tool.  Joe Gebbia, Airbnb’s co-founder, unveils a project that reimagines backyard spaces and battles the housing-affordability crisis. Discover the tiny, net-zero homes that are not just houses, but power generators.  Unravel the mysteries of Ashton Kutcher’s Sound V...

🎙️ HQLA - Episode 33 🎙️ Welcome back to HQLA! Join us on another thrilling journey as we unravel a tapestry of topics, from investment nuances and innovative ventures to the startling revelations surrounding age reversal. Big thanks to our sponsors for this episode! Index.dev https://www.index.dev/hire?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=HQLA&utm_campaign=podcast   Newnique https://www.newnique...

Big thanks to our sponsors for this episode! Index.dev https://www.index.dev/hire?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=HQLA&utm_campaign=podcast   Newnique https://www.newnique.com.au/contact   Index.dev is a London-based company that helps enterprises find and hire world-class remote software developers. The company was founded by Sergiu Matei, who saw a need for a more efficient and effective...

Big thanks to our sponsors for this episode! Index.dev: https://www.index.dev/hire?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=HQLA&utm_campaign=podcast Newnique: https://www.newnique.com.au/contact In Episode 31 of HQLA, the hosts discuss various topics related to AI and technology. They start with a discussion on NFTs, particularly a song created using AI deep fake technology featuring Drake and The...

Coastalworld.com is a browser game developed by Coastal Community Bank that gamifies fintechs and helps you learn more about personal finance. Play mini-games that represent the fintechs, such as international money transfer, budgeting, and financing your home improvement Discover the latest breakthrough in construction technology: 3D printed houses. Learn how companies like Icon, Peri, Mighty Bui...

We start off with talking about web3 music, with four projects creating playlist-based NFT-enabled projects to integrate with Spotify. Bard suffers against OpenAI. GPT integrated into Bing. Bald man Jeff Bezos running for president? Or just buying football teams and newspapers? Next up, we talk about AI tools to power your business. When we move on from just focusing on GPT, where can we get with...

Stripe is an online payment processing platform that simplifies the payment process for online businesses. Its founders, John and Patrick Collison started the company in 2010, intending to provide an easy-to-use platform for businesses to process payments. Stripe offers a user-friendly interface, support for multiple currencies, recurring payments, and physical card readers for brick-and-mortar bu...

Chat GPT is an incredible piece of engineering which pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Chat GPT was developed by the non-profit organization OpenAI, which is run by entrepreneur Sam Altman. Altman is an original Y-Combinator founder, the accelerator which has funded companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit. Chat GPT is a text-based interface that can answer a...

In this episode, we talk to Matt Allen from Tractor Ventures. Matt shares with us how he runs a successful VC firm and why Tractor has a different model than most Venture Capital structures, choosing to use a debt first, revenue share solution, then shifting to a warrant for equity model if a startup wants to plan a big exit like a sale or an IPO. Matt also gives us some insights into his decision...

**Disclaimer: we filmed this episode earlier in the year, prior to the escalation of events in Ukraine** On episode 25 of HQLA we talk to Aleks Volodarsky, who is the founder of online marketplace lemon.io. Lemon allows you to add an Eastern European engineer to your existing startup team. Aleks talked us through his startup career, having other ideas that worked, and some that didn't, including b...

Minke is a savings app that allows you to use the Aave protocol to make interest on your cryptos in a much safer way than using Luna.  We take a deep dive into the Melbourne-based startup with remote employees all over the world. This perfectly fits the theme of a non-custodial wallet, which is a decentralised concept of being able to pick up your crypto wallet and use it in any country. As t...

Have you ever wanted to buy an NFT that pays you dividends? What about buying and owning a piece of your favorite album? Well, this web 3 startup is aiming to revolutionize the music industry and the way that individuals interact with artists and the intellectual property they put out. For the longest time, it has been the bragging right of the earliest fans to claim they had heard their favorite...

In this episode, we talk to Crypto Karin, a TikToker who has recently blown up to over 90,000 followers with her clips about the state of the crypto market, and how it ties in with tech and cyber security. Truly nothing was off the table as we chatted everything from stray cats, content creation, and the future possibilities of DAOs.

Clearly, it’s high time we dedicate a full episode to digging into NFTs; how to buy them, why they’re valuable & what prospective use cases exist. So, this week we embark on our first transcontinental interview, featuring Jory Davies from ‘basicbats’, an NFT mobile game that’s set out as a pioneer in the NFT gaming universe. Jory lets us in on how ‘basicbats’ came to life, how the artwork has...

Trump Media & Technology Group recently announced their SPAC merger (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) with DWAC (Digital World Acquisition Corp). This will be the launch of Donald Trump's own Truth Social, a social media platform that will rival the liberal media consortium and fight back against big tech. The tech stack is built on an open-source version of Twitter called Masterdon. WeWor...

Do the rich pay enough tax? | Canva has a new valuation. | Mailchimp sells to Intuit for $12B. | Discord raised a new $500M round and is now worth $15B. | Rivian R1T is up against Tesla and Ford’s latest pickups, and they’re boldly launching themselves with an 80B market cap. | Space X sent an all-civilian mission deep into space. | Tesla launched its Tesla bot on AI day. | Donda vs Certified Love...

The FAANG group of tech stocks are known for being disruptors, and Netflix permanently changed the way distribution works in Hollywood forever. Starting with disrupting Blockbuster in the late 90s, they've moved on to compete with more modern companies like Apple and Disney.  EverRise is a crypto startup running under the premise of DApps, or Decentralised Apps. EverRise has a unique fee stru...

In recent news: US financial tech giant Square buys Afterpay, Cathie Wood's ARK funds sell JD.com as well as other Chinese holdings, Salesforce officially acquires Slack & Tesla has signs a deal with Australian mining giant BHP to supply raw materials. The International Olympic Committee is a private not-for-profit which has been the powering force behind the modern Olympic Games. Through mult...

In this episode we start with Palantir Technologies, with three strong products and their even better names: Gotham, Foundry & Apollo.  Some of Palantir's newest clients are impressive, including Scuderia Ferrari, Faurecia, BP, 3M, the UK's NHS, and IBM, as well as many others.  Bill Ackman is up next, with his hedge fund gains, his holding company and his newest SPAC PSTH.  Mic...

Our first segment is about ADA, which is a cryptocurrency on the Cardano blockchain. This one is third generation crypto that aims to have a central blockchain, usable by other cryptocurrencies.  In our second segment, we talk about Advanced Micro Devices, more commonly known as AMD. AMD has had a record year, clocking massive earnings and revenue growth.  In our final segment, we discus...

In this episode, we open with a very amateur discussion of some very professional boxing. But don't worry! There is more, next up we look into Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, one of the most fun and simultaneously least viable business models we've ever seen.  One thing that isn't as up to par as SPCE, is Cathie Wood's ARKX ETF. With holdings like 3D printing, Netflix, and Amazon, we weren...

We start of this one with a crypto-currency that's a lot smaller than Bitcoin, but one key advantage is that it's cost to transact is much smaller than some of the other large crypto-currencies. Amazon is a mega-conglomerate that is only getting larger. Will it be the first company to hit a market cap of $5 Trillion? Who knows. What we do know is that Jeff Bezos has built an automation powerhouse...

Jessica Alba does more than just making movies. Since 2011, Honest company has grown from Alba's idea into a fully IPO'd home care business valued at over a billion dollars. Wesfarmers is an Australian conglomerate most famous for owning Bunnings (and previously Coles). NFT's are an area that is relatively new to 2021. Non-Fungible Tokens merge the concepts of modern digital art with the crypto bl...

In today's episode we look at GRAB, a serious Uber competitor for South-East Asia, but is it more than just Uber or Doordash? We also look at one of the hottest IPO's of the year, COINBASE. Our car of the day is the Ferrar SF90 Stradale. This was fun segment where we look at the car that celebrates 90 years of Scuderia Ferrari.

In this episode we talk about some of the fundamentals of Ethereum, some of the key fundamentals around staking, investing, and applications that can be built on the blockchain. We also chat about inflation and its impact on certain areas, then we finish off by chatting about our YouTube growth and a few of the key demographic shifts we've seen over our first 3 months on YouTube.