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Send a text ♻️ Eliminating 4 Million Plastic Jugs from Landfills! Laundry routines aren't super fun for any one, but recent studies show how it's downright terrible for the environment . Washers use copious amounts of water. Add to that detergents that can release toxic chemicals that get into the food chain, as well as the transportation costs of lugging around massive plastic jugs of l...

Send a text Sweeping infrastructure plans are in plans across the globe. Take Biden's nearly $4 trillion infrastructure package that is aimed at repairing roads, transportation hubs and telecommunication systems.  How do they plan on paying for it? Taxes! To finance the proposal, the administration has proposed a partial rollback of some tax breaks signed into law in 2017 by President Donald...

Send a text Infrastructure today cannot meet the needs of the digital economy tomorrow. 5G, driverless cars, Sustainable cities, broadband access to all are some of the breakthrough technologies promised in the coming decades.. But how are these even possible if the underlying foundation i.e infrastructure itself is weak! Infrastructure has been neglected far too long. The easiest way to get a slo...

Send a text Online search for “ inflation ” have multiplied over the past few months.. The surge in attention comes during a supply demand mismatch, resulting in computer chip shortages, gas lines,  surging metal prices, & food prices on the way up as well. Lumber, specifically, has been on a tear,  up 500% since last year ! The price increase in lumber actually leads to a price increase in re...

Send a text Product Placement Is Key To Sales And Profit in Supermarkets and grocery stores.. Every aisle of a supermarket has 100s of different brands of products,  all vying for your attention and aiming to ultimately end up in your shopping cart. Getting your product into a new store is hard enough on its own. How do you measure your product availability, inventory levels, product placement or...

Send a text As zoom university comes to an end for the graduating class of 2021, we ask ourselves, is online learning here to stay? The trends say it is... sort of. Lackluster Investment into Learning Technology Prior to Covid-19 schools barely invested in online learning with only 5% of their total budget being put towards IT.  This applies to the big name universities that have more than 10,000...

Send a text Nike, Disney, Coca Cola, Apple, and Sony all have one thing in common. They have built iconic brands that have become recognizable world-wide. Growing up we've been surrounded by brands and they have shaped the way we go about our days, our consumption habits, and our opinions on the best products and services we choose to use. There is an emotional aspect that makes up how we vie...

Send a text Is it possible to make artificial intelligence more accessible to companies, both large and small? Our latest episode is with Hyun Kim , Co-Founder and CEO of Superb AI , a company that is building a platform that aims to make shipping AI models easier.  With a highly technical team, that spans 25+ research publications, 7,300 research citations and 100+ patents in computer vision and...

Send a text How do you know where your UberEats, DoorDash or Caviar orders REALLY come from? The COVID Delivery Boom The pandemic has pushed delivery applications to the lime light. The 4 largest food delivery platforms saw their revenues rise $3B collectively in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2020 . Doordash, who currently operates about 50% of the market, saw 543 million total orders in the first 9...

Send a text In a world that's increasingly becoming data-driven, we see the importance of business intelligence or "BI". With more data getting gathered, we have the ability to find key metrics that can simply help us make better decisions. Today we have a professional that has dedicated his life to helping people get into the field of business intelligence:   Chris Dutton, Founder...

Send a text In the last episode, or Blitz Talk 31, we talked about how the semiconductor Shortage happened and how important it is to society. Why can’t we just scale up production and meet demand? Well, we think it might be a supply chain problem. There are only a few players in the manufacturing of chips which means that the supply chains are NOT diverse. As one use-case, Apple has one supplier...

Send a text We live in a digital economy that is largely powered by semiconductor chips!  They are the brains of nearly every electronic device we buy and use, from phones, laptops, cars the WIFI we use, medical equipment, military applications and even our humble fridges and toasters.. So what happens when the chips are down?  Well the current shortage of chips worldwide is creating havoc in the...

Send a text What is synthetic media you ask? Well it’s been in the headlines as deepfakes , videos of famous influential figures that appear to be saying controversial statements raising concerns over what’s real and what’s not. While these fake videos are scary, there is a company that’s putting a positive spin to this technology.  Online learning , movie production, and media creation are some o...

Send a text Let’s flashback to the 1970’s, a really interesting use-case for economists to explain what the central bank deals with today, the fear of inflation! If you know anyone who was alive during that time, they probably remember the long lines in gas stations! This is because Nixon, in 1971, made oil price increases illegal (Effectively, a price ceiling) and also cut the link of Gold to the...

Send a text Since the beginning of 2020 Big Tech has purchased 1.6 million square feet of office space in NYC alone. It’s a move to control their operations, park hoards of cash into hard assets, and continue to expand their operations with hundreds of thousands of new hires. In fact Amazon hired over 400,000 employees in just 10 months following the start of the pandemic. With a massive increase...

Send a text At the current state it would take only 2.5 months to run out of available houses for new homebuyers to purchase. This is a new low from 40 years back and it’s far from a healthy economy that typically sees 6-10 months of housing inventory. 2021 is the year where working from home is the new norm and tens of thousands of families are relocating to new cities every month . Even builders...

Send a text As technology disrupts different parts of the economy, healthcare is one that is burdened with huge regulation risk but also provides a direct and measurable result. In 2020, we saw the COVID-19 pandemic seriously overshadow other healthcare concerns but what happened to the rest? Mental Health, a growing problem in the United States, was under the spotlight again as people deal with i...

Send a text Recent reports indicate that global food prices are at a 7 year high due to COVID related supply chain disruptions has resulted in price hikes in staples like meat, corn, soy and wheat. Support the show Things Have Changed

Send a text The World isn’t Flat, Why is your Display? In our latest, we host Aleksandra Pedraszewska, COO and co-founder of VividQ a deep tech company that enables 3D holograms to be displayed on demand! The patented technology aims to power the next-gen augmented reality (AR) devices, head-up displays (HUD) and consumer electronics. Founded by a team of engineers, mathematicians and computer sci...

Send a text It wasn't too long ago that we would have to dial to order delivery food without seeing menus, customizing orders, and seeing updates on delivery statuses. In this episode we speak with Shawn Tsao , co-founder of Caviar, one of the early apps that created the wave of food delivery. Shawn didn't stop there and went on to create Beluga Capital , a venture capital fund investing...

Send a text In April of this year , at the peak of the pandemic, the unemployment rates hit a historic 14.7%, which was  a post WWII high! Since then, the unemployment rate has decreased but that doesn't paint the full picture. In the turn of the year, there were 965,000 claims filed for unemployment insurance. After the new jobs report came out, we learned that 140,000 jobs were lost in the...

Send a text 2019 was the second warmest year on record and the end of the warmest decade (2010- 2019) ever recorded. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to new records in 2019, but global carbon dioxide emissions fell an unprecedented 7 per cent in 2020 due to coronavirus restrictions. Over the last decade, Wall Street poured hundreds of billions of dollar...

Send a text It happened not too long ago, the most complex board game (GO) with as many possible moves as atoms in the Universe was won by an Artificial Intelligence designed by Google to take on the smartest humans. Is this the end of board game gurus and the start of robot domination? We don't know... AI has been a consistent theme within Things Have Changed over the past year. Episode 6 wi...

Send a text There is no simple way to sum up this year. 2020 saw tremendous change and suffering as well as renewed hope and heroics.  Join the conversation as we begin to make sense of this tumultuous, terrifying and hopeful time.  Show Notes: Davos & Stakeholder Capitalism COVID19 & the Subsequent Economic Fallout Fighting the Virus Vaccine delivers hope around the globe Finally a big TH...

Send a text So many of our family stories are formative to our personal background, traditions, and even  our identity, so why hasn't there been an app to save and share it all?  Amelia Lin, Founder and CEO of Saga took it upon herself to create an app that does all of that for you. Saga is a Private Family Podcast that saves and shares audio recordings that your family members can upload wit...