The Deep End by ODF

Karthik Puvvada (known by his friends and online as "KP") is the Program Director for On Deck No-Code and is also a leader of the "build in public" movement that is taking the internet by storm. Today's conversation takes place at the intersection of those two tech trends. When KP thinks about building in public, he encourages his audience to use content as a lighthouse to attract other people to...

Josh Kaplan was an early employee at Morning Brew and was a product manager during their meteoric rise as a media company. Now, he’s taken what he has learned as an operator in a creative space and applied it to his role as co-founder and CEO of Smooth Ops to help content creators scale their businesses. Today’s conversation is about the deeply challenging logistics involved in the creator economy...

Bored Elon Musk  (one of Twitter's largest pseudonyms with 1.7 million followers) joins us to discuss the nature of pseudonyms and his investment activity. We also chat about the metaverse, the pseudonymous tech stack, the future of deep fakes, and much more. Pseudonyms are interesting because they are inherently meritocratic. Bias isn't possible because nobody knows who you really are. As the int...

This week's guest on The Deep End is Dr. Emily Anhalt. Dr. Anhalt is a psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Coa, which describes itself as building a gym for your mental health. Today's conversation is about how to train for emotional fitness. Just like trainers at a traditional gym might rotate clients between a leg day, chest day, and shoul...

Cooper Turley leads a handful of online communities known as DAOs. "DAO" is an acronym that stands for a decentralized autonomous organization. In more colloquial terms, a DAO is an internet community with a shared cap table and bank account. They represent humanity's newest structure for cooperative decision making. Cooper joined us for a live episode last week to help explain why DAOs are explod...

It's a new season of the Deep End and we're moving to two episodes per week (Mondays + Wednesdays)! We lay the groundwork for all of our upcoming episodes by discussing the nature of the open-source web. Our guest, Cal.com Co-CEO Peer Richelsen, views the internet as a democratic, transparent, and open technology that is undergoing a renaissance. Open-source software development was the spiritual...

Dean Hollis Robbins wears many hats: Administrator, teacher, scholar of black sonnets... but she's also an expert on expertise itself. Today's conversation is about frameworks for organizing knowledge. Dr. Robbins argues that our modern society suffers from mismanaged "self-secretarying" - most of us receive no formal training in how to process & sort the huge amounts of information that we have t...

Patrick Rivera (Product Engineer at Mirror and alum of ODF + ODW) has a front seat on the edge of the crypto revolution. He details the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0, discusses the crypto-native creator economy, paints a picture of the current crypto landscape (and challenges), and provides some predictions for the future.  For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast r...

Flo Crivello (CEO of Teamflow) believes that a new way of working calls for an entirely new set of tools. In this conversation, we explore how employers can curate a new kind of space that looks virtual, but feels intimate and collaborative in the same way a traditional office does. Our wide-ranging conversation covers text-based productivity vs. video-based work, the entrance of Facebook into the...

We sit down with Marc Lore, a serial entrepreneur and self-described "moonshot seeker." He has successfully founded and sold three companies, including Jet.com, which sold to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Now, he's building a mission-driven city called, "Telosa," which comes from an Aristotle-coined word "Telos," meaning "a higher purpose.” For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast rec...

We sit down with Gaby Goldberg, investor at Bessemer and explorer of the metaverse. Also joining us is Shriya Nevatia, program director of On Deck Catalyst. For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast recordings and more visit thedeepend.substack.com

We sit down with Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries. He explains why Varda’s mission statement is to “expand the economic bounds of humanity” and how its success will do for space what the gold rush did for California. For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast recordings and more visit thedeepend.substack.com Next Monday we're hosting a live podcast recording and Q&A a...

We sit down with Sam and Andrew who, since meeting during On Deck, have gone on to co-found a startup called Levels together. Their goal is nothing short of changing the way the world interacts with food through the creation of a whole new product category centered around metabolic health.  For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast recordings and more visit thedeepend.substack.com Next Mon...

For full show notes, links, RSVPs to live podcast recordings and more visit thedeepend.substack.com Coming up this month we're doing live recordings (free to attend) with... Delian Asparouhov of Founders Fund and Varda Space industries on manufacturing in outer space ( RSVP ) Jack Carlson of Rowing Blazers on building iconic fashion brands from scratch ( RSVP )

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Two articles from Bradley Tusk: Jordan and Bradley debate the future of cities and WFH How will tech’s biggest policy fights play out in 2021?

Show Links Celine on Twitter: @celinehalioua Loyal’s website:  Recent coverage of Loyal in Bloomberg by Ashlee Vance (Elon Musk’s biographer): If Dogs Live Longer With Anti-Aging Science, Humans Could, Too Why I Hope to Die at 75 What I Wanted to Build: Can Corporations Bring Socialized Healthcare to the United States? Laura Deming’s Longevity FAQ

Links: Breaking Points website Sagaar on Twitter: @esaagar Supercast Article: Howard Stern is Getting Ripped Off

Joe's Twitter: @josephpalbanese Stir Li Jin — investor in Stir Nathan Bashez — co-founder of Every.to — a bundle of newsletters and podcasts Sidechannel — Discord for writers

Links to resources mentioned in the episode: 1729 - Founding vs. Inheriting and the Network Union , 2021 Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen, 2011 Software Is Reorganizing the World by Balaji Srinivasan, 2013 YCombinator Talk about Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit , 2013 The Deep End is produced by On Deck -  where top talent goes to accelerate their ideas and careers. We hope those...