The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo
Episodes
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider Keith's special guest is John Wolpert, Senior Product Executive and "Seeker of Awesomeness" at Consensys. John discusses his career in technology from IBM, to Flywheel (and makes a comment how instead an app to hail Taxis they should have created the app to hail cars), to becoming a founding member back at IBM for the Hyperledger Fabric. Since then, John has been involved with the early days of Consensys and discusses at length what blockchains are and are not (here's a hint, it definitely not only about cryptocurrency).
On the Pivot, Keith is joined by his executive producer Tess Phelan to answer her questions about Facebook's announcement of Libra, cryptocurrency consortium that includes such partners as PayPal, ebay, Visa, Stripe and others. Find out more by tuning into the show!
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Friday Jun 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Do you want to learn about how the traditional automobile ownership model is being disrupted or you thinking of starting a career in the ride-sharing business (like being an Uber driver) without having a car? Be sure to listen to this episode of Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo.
On this week's show, Keith has serial entrepreneur and special guest, Scott Painter, Founder and CEO of Fair.com to discuss his innovative approach to automobile leasing using Fair's Fintech platform. Fair allows users to obtain used cars at a low cost with only a valid driver's license and form of payment to get started. Scott talks about his lifelong love of automobiles and how to empower consumers to reach their financial dreams. Scott previously was the founder and CEO of True Car and has won many awards for entrepreneurship and innovation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Painter
On this week's Cyber-Tip Keith discusses how the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that federal agencies no longer use Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) to verifies identifies and what it means to you the consumer and how to protect yourself.
On the Pivot, Scott Painter and Keith discuss the shift in attitudes towards traditional credit and debt (such as auto loans) and how consumers are looking at companies like Fair.com for alternative financing to car loans.
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Scott Painter and Fair.com in the news:
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2018-07-26/buying-a-car-is-one-of-the-worst-financial-decisions-fair-ceo
Cheddar: https://cheddar.com/media/ceo-scott-painter-says-fair-will-have-go-public-sooner-or-later
Barron's: https://www.barrons.com/articles/uber-fair-partnership-51559188011
Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacknerad2/2019/05/29/uber-fair-announce-program-to-turn-car-less-into-rideshare-drivers/#364754887209
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Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Keith covers the first anniversary of the EOSIO (EOS) Mainnet Launch with special guests: 1) Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Block.One & Blockchain Capital & 2) David Packham Founder of EOS 42 and the Chintai Token Leasing Exchange.
In the first segment, Keith and David discuss the 2nd Annual Tulip Emerging Technology Conference (www.tulipconf.com) and the EOS Block Producer Summit recalling how the EOS.IO Mainnet Launch happened during the inaugural Tulip event in San Francisco last year. David talks about the progress the EOS community has made over the year.
In the second segment Keith and David discuss cryptocurrency ratings as well as the concept of token leasing and how holders of utility tokens can make income from their token holdings by allowing them up for lease.
In the third segment, Brock Pierce gives an exclusive interview post his inspirational keynote at the Tulip Conference on the importance of a community and his definition of what it means to be a billionaire. Although Brock has gained a lot of attention as being one of the first "Bitcoin Billionaires" Brock discusses his life of service and dedication to giving back to the community. He explains why it was important to be part off the 2nd annual Tulip conference because of how much the community led to the launch of the EOSIO mainnet..
On this week's Cyber-Tip Keith explains the growing threat of "Deepfakes" and how you can detect them.
On the Pivot, David and Keith discuss how Chintai's original vision of leasing tokens for EOS naturally applied to all utility tokens.
Be sure to tune in.
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Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Replay:
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has returning guest Josh Trujillo, Head of 42 Accelerate. 42 Silicon Valley and 42 Paris program which is a completely tuition free college level and above computer science education.
Keith, who is a mentor at 42 Accelerate, recalls how Josh was a cadet on the 42 Silicon Valley program before spearheading the creation of 42's own incubator/accelerator process. Josh discusses 42 Accelerate's journey and several notable past and present startups that have gone through the program.
Don't miss this week's Cyber-Tip as Keith reminds everyone to always be vigilant with their online identifies even when using "trusted" brands like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay or Netflix.
On the Pivot, Keith and Josh discuss how 42 Accelerate was originally created for 42 students to create their own work related projects and then progressed to being a technology incubator.
For more information on 42 Silicon Valley go to 42.us.org. For information on 42 Paris go to:
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Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox.fm and sister company Contentbox.one talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization.
Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as an app monetization expert.
"Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. ... Our mission at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere."
Castbox has over 20,000,000 users on Google Play and ITunes in over 200 nations and content creators in over 130. Castbox is completely free for content creators.
For listeners and podcasters, Contentbox has unique features such as full transcription of all shows that is searchable. (e.g. search on a Silicon Valley Insider for key word and timestamp such as "blockchain" 13 minutes.
"ContentBox, is a blockchain-based infrastructure for the decentralized digital content industry. CastBox, an audio platform with over 50 million audio content and 15 million users, will be the first partner of ContentBox."
Renee and Tina discuss how Castbox focuses on 1) The Listener experience with advanced features and 2) The Podcaster experience through attracting listeners and monetization.
Contentbox is not just for podcasting but also publishers and video contenct creators.
Listen Friday 5/31 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
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