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Cox: School tablet terms permit listening into students' homes
“My daughter has user accounts and tablets that the school provides to her. And if you really read the terms and conditions, when she's using that device in my home, they can listen to what's going on in my home.”
Cox: 50% to 52% of all US men go to jail in their lifetime
“50, 52% of all men in our country go to jail at some point in their lifetime.”
Weisbrot: Commercial DNA testing companies own and repeatedly re-sample submitted DNA
“So if you're thinking of doing a DNA test, think about that before you do it, because they will own your DNA and they can sample it over and over and over. And that's how you keep getting new updates of the reports that they're creating, because they test it o…”
Lassman: Quantum Computers Can Run Complex Financial Algorithms Almost Instantly
“There are certain, like, financial algorithms that are super complex that would take a classical computer years, years to chug.
That can start to be done closer to fast, like, instant almost.”
Furman: Postpartum sleep deprivation mirrors tactics used in wartime torture
“When you're not, when you're sleeping in 2:03 hour increments, that's a form of war torture that people use still to this day. Sleep deprivation is a very common form of torture.”
Weisbrot: Research proves microdosing psilocybin treats PTSD, anxiety, and depression
“Because there's very clear and known research that has shown, you know, microdosing mushrooms can significantly help with or get rid of PTSD, stress, anxiety, depression.”
Niedel: US supplement brands do not require pre-market testing
“You can create a supplement. You and I, Sean, can create a supplement together. We don't have to have it tested. We can take it to market. We can manufacture it. We can say it solves everything under the sun. And until the FDA or FTC pushes us to be able to ba…”
Niedel: Private equity firms have a 92% to 98% success rate
“Private equity groups have like a 92%, 98% success rate over the past 10 years of picking winners.”
Freckling: 250B real-time ad auctions happen daily versus 15B stock trades
“So it, there's two hundred and fifty billion real-time auctions per day, and that compares to fifteen billion stock trades per day.”
Freckling: Russian SDK Pushwoosh was embedded in US military applications
“A Russian software vendor called Pushwoosh was found to be installed in military and U S government agencies because they had they had disguised themselves. I think they had purported to have American employees based in Washington, DC, and this SDK, which was …”
Buildpan Automated Bug Reports Claim 80% to 90% Accuracy
“We've seen that it's almost 80 to 90% accurate and you don't need the QA team and you don't need other people to find those, read those code line by line. You don't need the developers to read the code line by line.”
Weisbrot: Research proves psychedelics cure depression
“There's tremendous amount of research that has proven without a shadow of a doubt that, that psychedelics have been amazing for curing depression. Curing depression. Curing treatment-resistant depression”
Weisbrot: Stem cell brain injections can reverse stroke damage after six months
“There's evidence that stem cells that a stem cell injection directly into the brain can Undue damage from a stroke six months after, more than six months after.”
Kozeski: Boutique advisory firms decide billionaire philanthropy grants like MacKenzie Scott's
“There are entire firms that exist and they have two or three clients at most, and their job is just to give away these funds. I mean, it's been a race for all nonprofits to try to identify You know, who's that clearing house for the Mackenzie Scott's of the wo…”
Wong: Asian KOLs frequently purchase likes, comments, and followers
“A lot of them boost particular posts that they have. Not in the traditional sense of Instagram or Facebook posting their posts. I think that's the biggest issue here. They purchase likes, they purchase comments, they purchase followers.”
Pearl: Canadian authorities ordered crypto exchanges to freeze trucker assets
“So what did the Canadian authorities do? They instructed you know, the various exchanges like Coinbase, for instance to basically freeze the assets of the Canadians that had accounts there.”
Pearl: US states and Ivy Leagues are developing NFT diploma certificates
“I know that several companies are working with a few U.S. States, and obviously outside of the U.S. And with some you know, public organizations as well, like colleges and Ivy League universities on NFTing their diplomas, their certificates, and so on.”
Rosenstein: Computer scientist drained via Discord link exposing clipboard history
“One of my investors. That's how long ago, almost a year and a half ago, got hacked and they stole his portion tokens. And this is one of the most savvy computer scientists I know on the planet, man, a guy who would never get hacked. And what happened was he cl…”
Lakritz: Post-COVID Seed Rounds Have Ballooned Up to $50 Million
“Where you raise the seed amount, where, what you're talking about around half and five million dollars before COVID. And today it can be somewhere between five and 50. Even I've seen a seed investment.”
Ben Nun: Cooling systems are the biggest electricity consumers on the grid
“It was very obvious that the biggest consumer on the grid is cooling systems.”
Ben Nun: Nostromo loses under 1% capacity after 6,500 freeze cycles
“We have already proved that after 6500 cycles, we lose less than one percent of the ability
To freeze water.”
TRIPP boosts HRV 35% to 40% more than Headspace, test shows
“They had done a test, an AB test of, 20 minutes on headspace versus 20 minutes on trip. And they showed roughly a 35, 40% Increase in HRV, which is a measurement of how calm you are using trip versus headspace.”
Strauss: Challenging psychedelic trips often yield better outcomes than easy ones
“Oftentimes people who have a challenging experience might actually come out of it feeling better than they did an experience that was perhaps easier.”
Arnoff-Fenn: Reducing networking and sales pressure increased client hit rates
“So my hit rate was going up. Not down. It was not hurting my business. It was helping my business.”
Weisbrot: 80% of American adults take antidepressants
“Eight out of 10 adults in America are on some sort of antidepressant.”
Weisbrot: Taking psilocybin stabilized his chronic high blood pressure without medication
“And after I started taking the psilocybin within like a week or two, I got off of the high blood pressure pills. It's been several months now. My blood pressure is stabilized and I don't take the pills.”
Mishra: The market for business presentation software is trillions of dollars
“Once those things are in place, you know, there's infinite scaling as possible, right? Because the market for this is trillions of dollars.”
Frasier: 41% of US Podcast Listeners Are Non-White
“Brands are missing out on this, and this is a three trillion dollar audience, and not only is it a three trillion dollar audience, but 41% of podcast listeners in the U.S. Are non-white.”
Weisbrot: Early Vietnam War Military Research Found LSD Cured PTSD
“Even I believe during Vietnam, in the early days of Vietnam the military was doing research with PTSD and other trauma with LSD, and they found that it was basically curing soldiers' PTSD.”
Slack Promoted Praise While Ignoring 50,000 Complaints Online
“Slack was promoting this like Twitter wall of praise that they had, but what they didn't promote was that there was a website where there were over 50,000 comments about why people hated Slack.”
Weisbrot: Crime rates have declined since the advent of gaming
“And in reality, what we've seen is a decline in crime rates since the advent of gaming.”
Rusk: Startup investors almost never fund solo entrepreneurs
“Startup investors almost never fund solo entrepreneurs.”
Gisenau: Microsoft launched a free app competing with ChitChattr
“We had an incident about a week ago or so where Microsoft have launched a free app, a portion of which competes with an element of our application.”
Cien: French payroll taxes equal 100% of an employee's take-home salary
“If you want to pay 5000 that lands in the pocket of that employee, you would basically have to pay another 5000 In, under the form of different taxes. Unemployment insurance, medical insurance, health insurance, and lots of different other insurance and taxes.”
Weisbrot: America is the only Western democracy without universal healthcare
“America claims to be the strongest, best country in the world, but it is the only Western democracy that doesn't have healthcare for all.”
Weisbrot: Lack of US Government Bargaining Drives High Drug Prices
“The reason why medication in America is so expensive and very cheap outside of the
Outside of the US, despite being made by the same damn companies from the same damn factories, is that because the government doesn't bargain on behalf of the population, they c…”
Blanchett: Origen Air's purifier kills COVID in under four seconds
“This is part of an air purifier, which can actually kill COVID in under four seconds. And take out carcinogens from the air.”
Blanchet's employer spent eight months seeking cause before firing her
“They'd gone through it for hundreds of hours, my files, my hours, And could not find anything wrong. And it culminated in about nine months later, getting called into office and being let go without cause. So they tried for eight months to find cause to fire m…”
Blanchett: Regular indoor plants do not clean the air
“Plants actually don't clean the air. We think they do, but they don't.”
Blanchet found no Canadian precedents for female-on-female workplace discrimination
“And the sad thing, I could not find one case and I looked for weeks and hours every day of a female on female discrimination in the legal, in the law world. There is not a case. Well, I found one actually. I found one not in Canada, in the United States, and t…”
Naylor: Shark Tank edit highlighted Cuban's insults and cut compliments
“The episode painted me as Mark Cuban calling me snake oil salesman. He called me a liar several times and they emphasize that in the editing of the show, but they didn't talk about how many other compliments I got during, during the recording.”
Halasnik: Bootstrapping long-lasting small businesses pays better than venture-backed startups
“I have quite a number of friends who got investor money, you know, they built their companies and were successful at it. And they didn't make as much money as I did building a small company that That kind of lasts a long period of time.”
Weisbrot: Most Southeast Asian and East Asian startups build locally, not globally
“When I look at the startup ecosystem in a given country, let's say Vietnam, for example, they generally are not building for a global audience. I don't just see this in Vietnam. I also see this in Japan and Korea and Philippines and most Southeast Asian countr…”
Zhang: 9-9-6 work schedule is commonplace rather than rare in China
“There's something in China called like nine nine six. Type of work style, which means they work from nine AM to nine PM, six days a week. Many companies have these kinds of policies around employees working on weekends. It's more commonplace than rare.”
Weisbrot: 14% of Coinbase staff resigned over Brian Armstrong's non-political mandate
“And I think his name is Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, said basically, we are a non-political organization. If you don't like that, you can quit. And I think five, 14% of the company quit”
Siddar: Climate-induced drought was the primary trigger of the Syrian uprising
“The real reason was climate change caused that year the drought in Syria. So they didn't have any harvest that year because of like the increased heat compared to previous years. That was the first step in the whole revolt against the Bashar regime in Syria be…”
Fredrickson: Most clients fail to track metrics and KPIs with accountability
“Pretty much within the first 3060 days with every single client, as you know, we do a deep dive, we assess, I always say, open the hood of the business, what's working, what's not, and oftentimes what's not there or not working is that they don't know their nu…”