Things Have Changed

Send a text The Cannabis Industry has been changing for a while. Years of activism and millions of dollars of investment have come and 2020 has been the year that served as the step right before federal acceptance. Today, 230 million Americans live in a state that has access to either medical or recreational cannabis. This would have been unimaginable in the 1970's during the peak of the drug...

Send a text In a time when stress levels are high and many people feel stuck there are many mindfulness apps that help you destress and stay centered. Today we speak with co-founder and CEO of Hallow, Alex Jones . With over 1.28 billion members of the Roman Catholic church, many people have struggled to stay connected in their faith. Hallow aims to help people combine the peace and stillness of me...

Send a text The world is turning towards renewable energy and we've noticed the growing interest in the Electric Vehicle (EV) market.  From 2015 to 2019, annual EV sales rose from 450,000 to approximately 2 million! That is a lot of electric cars! Despite the growth, EVs still represent just 2.6% of total car sales, with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles still making up the vast major...

Send a text According to Kommando Tech , there are about 4.5 Billion users of the internet (More than half of the world population).  About 64% of those users access the internet through Google Chrome. There's a lot of eyes on Google Chrome, yet there are a few companies that take advantage of Google Chrome Extension Market. There's over 1.23 billion installs across the 188,620 extension...

Send a text Journalist's are leaving media powerhouses for more personal platforms that allow them to build their own brand on. In a time when the Murdoch Family owns the largest media companies globally including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Fox News, we are seeing an unbundling of news as journalists are leaving big conglomerates to create their own media brands. By creating pers...

Send a text One of the coolest new companies in the space of design, Figma has quickly become the dominant player in its space, with its highly collaborative, cloud-based design & prototyping functionalities. We talk about Noah’s early passion for design, his varied design experiences, joining Figma and building the highly talented teams making design accessible to everyone! This should be a f...

Send a text The Auto Industry is in a position that it’s never been with global shutdowns, development of new technology, and changing consumer preferences. Global competition is expected to keep rising as Chinese auto manufacturers aim to expand beyond its vast domestic market. Recently, SUV's outsold sedans two to one and this shift shows little sign of stopping. Customers have largely floc...

Send a text Cannabis is a $52 Billion industry  in the United States and Americans LOVE cannabis (They consume 29.9 million pounts of cannabis). This is a massive industry and growing! Like any other fast-growing industry, there are significant headwinds. After all the Cannabis entrepreneurs we’ve had on the show, one overwhelming and consistent problem is REGULATION. The amount of regulation is i...

Send a text 2020 has pushed the coal industry to once-unthinkable lows, and the consequences for climate change are big. But let's rewind a bit.. How did we get here? For a long time, Coal has been considered the least-cost option for power generation throughout the world.  That narrative is starting to fall, as recent reports show that as soon as 2030, it would be cheaper to build renewables...

Send a text How does one get into an elite media publishing house such as the Economist. What goes in to producing one of the most credible and listened radio/ podcast shows out there?  Well we have just the right person - Mr. Jason Palmer on Things Have Changed! Post-doctoral Soul Searching: Science Journalism Jason started his journey in the field of academia, as a physicist at the Lawrence Live...

Send a text Have you finally gone back to get a drink with a friend in an open-air bar? Have you gotten that much needed haircut? Although the Pandemic isn’t over, there is some ounce of normalcy that has returned. You’ve started going outside, started extending your “COVID-bubbles”, and have learned how to live in a world with a virus. How do I know what you’re doing? Because I am watching you.....

Send a text According to OECD estimates, technology will transform about 1/3 of the jobs worldwide (1 BILLION JOBS) . Earlier in 2020 we had another Davos Conference, the economic conference where a lot of important people show off how much they've been doing for the good of the world. The conference highlighted the issues within Capitalism, and one of which that was focused on Shareholder an...

Send a text We live in the data mining age, where tracking data has become a very valuable currency. Many industries are growing to adopt more technologies that can help them track progress and productivity. Since the boom of popularity with Smart Agriculture growing to a $13.1B industry in 2020, the opportunity to build new products becomes more obvious. We see companies like Texas Instruments (Y...

Send a text Higher education has been ripe for disruption for a long time as the skyrocketing costs has put college degrees out of reach for a significant portion of the population. Another valid criticism of higher Ed through the years has been that schools do not properly equip students with real-world skills they need in the workplace, and leave them in debt for years as they struggle to pay ba...

Send a text There is no surprise that new technology displaces jobs. This very sentiment was the cornerstone of Presidential candidate Andrew Yang campaign - How will automation and AI change the workforce in the future, and what can we do to prepare for it?   Mr. Yang and his Gang brought this inescapable issue into the forefront. A greater push toward automation will most certainly kill jobs — h...

Send a text The Big 4 Face Congress The United States Congress has labelled Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook as monopolies officially for the record. In a statement at the hearing it was said that “some need to be broken, and all need to be regulated”. As big tech gets even bigger, governments around the world seek to regulate them in some way. We just saw congress, in a widely publicized event...

Send a text In our most recent episode, Things Have Changed had the opportunity to speak and learn from Dr. Seth Benzell , Digital Economist, Assistant Professor at Chapman, Fellow at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and a huge Sci Fi Fantasy aficionado. Automation has been a reoccurring theme in corporations quest to improve their bottom line and stay co...

Send a text Co-working has clearly shaken up the commercial real estate market. Offices across the world have been greatly influenced by the autonomy and flexibility that a co-working space offers. The ability to shape your office to match your specific needs, be it optimizing performance and/or collaboration, can be counted as one of the main driver behind companies opting into these agreements &...

Send a text Spotify had to find a way to create a true differentiator to Apple Music & increase margins.  Spotify doesn’t have the luxury of selling iPhones at a high markup to fall back on so it still loses money. Streaming music isn’t cheap given the need to pay labels, artists and publishers based on consumption.  What's the solution then? Well... Podcasts! Spotify has acquired four po...

Send a text Things Have Changed Podcast uses a platform called Squadcast to record our podcast conversations. Prior to using Squadcast, the team used another service that did not allow visual interactions, which caused a strain on our conversations. We did not realize how important it was to see our guests until we joined Squadcast. The quality of the conversations got so much better! The Bootstra...

Send a text Although the political landscape has largely leaned towards more positive sentiment towards cannabis, it is still very expensive and risky to do business in the industry largely because of compliance burdens like tracking the entire operation from seed-to-sale.  Cannabis companies often spend 1/3rd of their time on compliance-related issues.  There are licenses required to do different...

Send a text In March 2019, over 4.4 million blogs were published around the globe every single day. With only so many writers, it’s becoming difficult to create stories from the amount of data we have today.  Przemek Chojecki, Founder and CEO of Contentyze, aims to fix the inefficiencies in  journalism with a content generation platform built to disrupt how journalism and content marketing works t...

Send a text Smoking kills a person every 5 seconds! Seventy-four percent of Americans who smoke say they would like to give it up per a recent study. Although quitting can be a challenge, there are a number of methods that have been proven to help, including nicotine gum. Using nicotine gum decreased the odds of lapsing by 55% compared with using placebo, in a recent well cited publication in PubM...

Send a text John Coogan, Rob Rhinehart, Matt Cauble, and David Renteln sought the perfect balance between nutrition and convenience. Soylent was created from a need to find a simple, nutritious food source & created a formula consisting of 100% of the daily value of necessary vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients obtained from normal meals. In 2013 Soylent raised $3M, the most ever seen for a...

Send a text There is a price for pollution, and companies are heavily involved in pricing carbon to meet environmental regulations. Today, a cap-and-trade system exists, where the government sets an overall ceiling on emissions from key industries. The idea here is that instead of using regulations to force companies to curb their emissions, polluters can be made to pay for every ton of CO₂ they e...