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This is my conversation with Andrew Arruda the founder of Flexpa & Ross Intelligence.

Startups are like chewing glass and staring into the abyss and being a founder is being someone who likes it.

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Timestamps:

0:43 His Dad

1:37 First Video He Created

2:31 Starwars: Storytelling, Special Effects, Visual Effects

3:46 How Steven Spielberg & George Lucas Inspired Him

5:30 Blender

7:08 Getting Paid & Creating Short Films

12:12 Creating The Most Watched NBA2K Trailer Of All Time

14:34 Ronnie2K

17:35 Leaving It All Out On The Court

24:05 Being Ronnie’s Brand Manager

27:52 Joining Astranis

34:32 First Few Weeks At Astranis

38:22 S³ & Astranis

41:53 Why S³

47:24 Raising The % Of People Changing The World

52:02 How He Chooses Which Startups To Feature

53:55 Episode Creation Process

56:16 Who Inspires Him

59:04 Companies He Wishes He Could’ve Done An S³ On

1:01:51 Having A Long-Term View

1:06:32 Optimizing For Timelessness

1:09:05 Becoming The Nike Of Technology

1:11:28 Why Today Is The Greatest Period In US History

1:12:39 Hardest Thing He’s Overcome

Here's my conversation with Aaron Slodov the founder of Atomic Industries & Remesh

I recommend listening at 1.5x

Timestamps:

0:00 Growing Up In Cleveland

1:50 Leaf Currency

2:52 Creating An Internet Cafe

7:21 Menial Jobs

13:20 Programming

13:54 Studying Physics & Meaning

15:44 Highschool Years

22:44 Interning At SETI

26:03 Physics GRE

27:45 Joining Google

31:45 rd < c

33:20 Self Driving & Anthony Levandowski

39:08 PhD & Starting Remesh

42:42 Hacking Into The White House

45:24 Techstars Experience

47:27 Getting Proctor & Gamble

51:16 Leaving Remesh

55:15 Warhammer & DnD Figurines

1:00:06 Founding Atomic

1:04:08 Cofounders & Y Combinator

1:13:47 Hardest Thing He’s Overcome