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So let me let me paint the picture for you. So I got for my my newest toy in my office, I'm building it out, I got a tempered glass chair mat for underneath my rolly chair, and I just love it. Well, the problem with the glass one is a little nudge and I am flying across the room it is even
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how long I was looking for the Dr. Evil GIF of him rolling up to the desk, and then going past it and the cameras still in the same spot. And then he slowly works his way back.
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That's what I was looking for that and I couldn't find it.
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I'm still getting used to because seriously, like, I just, I'm done for the day. Bye bye.
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In the wall, in the wall. So welcome, everybody. This is the biz dev Podcast, the podcast about developing your business.
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I'm David Baxter here as your host. And joining me as always is Gary Voight. I don't know.
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Yes. So we are enjoying the fall weather here. Well, I guess you're in Florida, aren't you so you don't get weather? Well, you get high our fall hotter.
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Our fall weather is when the humidity dips down a little bit. And everybody treats it like it's winter.
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I'm so sorry for you because I will say I grew up in Texas. And there are there are two seasons in Texas.
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swelteringly hot and kind of cold. And that's about it. You might get a couple of weeks where it's a nice in between.
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But I'm moved out to and I live in Florida for a while which well, barely. I lived in Tallahassee, so that's mostly Georgia. But even that was still not great. But moving up to North Carolina. I get four seasons. And I don't know how anyone doesn't do that. Because it is glorious. Springtime and full time or just glorious.
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Yeah,
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everybody can it leaves.
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So I was I was able to enjoy the Four Seasons didn't really like winter after the first week or so. Because it just seemed like just a mess. It just seemed like a muddy, salty, gross mess.
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I've never been up seahorse where snow is a thing for us even now. We'll get snow once a year, twice a year maybe.
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And it dumps it. We all enjoy it.
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Yeah, that's kind of cool.
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That's gonna be it's fun. It's an event.
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It's not a season. I went to Cleveland for a meeting years ago. And we landed in I don't remember, it was November, December. And it was weird to me because I could see there was a snow and it was just there like permanently. It was just snow was part of their life. And that was so weird to me. Because that's just not my experience at all.
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It makes you wonder why Canadians are always so happy.
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It's the trees and syrup.
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Yeah, I'm gonna be sir. So I was one of the big things that happened this week was the new MacBooks came out. Yeah. And like half of our team ran out to buy them. I know you are one of them. Yeah, and bought one.
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But it's not just because of the hype. I mean, yes, I am an Apple user. And I do like their products. But I've been waiting for a laptop that can actually run the apps that I use all the time without choking up the fan turning on and all that stuff. When the M one first came out, I was like, Ah, this might be the answer to everything. So then I was just patiently waiting for the MacBook Pro to have it. There was a
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lot of version of it.
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Yeah, they wanted the beefy version of the new chips. And they finally got it. And yeah, I think three of our team members got it with what's interesting is, we're all buying them based on a promise that they will be as good as the M one. Because the promises that they made with that thing, are so outlandish.
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They basically say it's as good as a Nvidia 3080 GPU, which is the top of the line, and it uses a third of its power. Yeah, if that's true, and only the reviews will tell us that that's one of the things I'm just kind of curious about. If that's true. That is such a remarkable jump and technology. paradigm shift. Yeah, I mean, Windows laptops, and I'm a Windows guy.
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So I'm certainly not a Mac fanboy here. But that is such a jump in, in everything that Windows has just been left in the dust as as a and I mean windows, as in all the people who build the PCs, we're talking, I've got a Zephyrus G 15 Right now, which is a wonderful computer. But if even half of what they say is true, that you can go eight plus hours and you have a 3080 in your
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thing, then yeah. Now the weird thing is the hardware and software working together because they're building all their own stuff is definitely a huge, you know, plus for them to be able to control performance and how it works with PCs, since everything's kind of interchangeable things are made by different companies and whatnot. I guess there's less of a continuity thing there when they also
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cheat. But yeah, When they say look at us, they're using their software doing stuff that they have prepared for the court and they don't game which is really one of the few reasons you need. Yeah, I mean, if you're a video guy sure, I get it. One of our guys who works with us to do video is like, yeah, I bought the beast. In one Max one matches a super expensive computer, apparently, too.
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Well, that's it. That's the one that's maxed out with everything at what is
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pretty pretty beefy. He got the 32 gigs, the whole thing. But what I'm saying is that, okay, that guy might need it. But most people who want to beat a computer are gamers, and you can't game on a Mac worth a darn. I mean, you can play something but so I'm curious, in a real world environment, why you would need that horsepower or what how it will be tested?
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How do you compare the 3080? To this in a real world scenario? I don't know,
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when you see real world. I think the market that Apple is actually going for are the graphics and video professionals. It's not that's not really going after the gamers. So their world are you talking about like the benchmark compares? Yeah,
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their benchmark their their charting, saying, Look, we compete with Nvidia. Let's do this. I mean, they're throwing the gauntlet down there, they're pulling out the white glove and slapping a video across the face and say, let's do this, right,
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that's because a lot of video editors, they'll use the apple editing software, and then we'll use Adobe Premiere, and then we'll use the VINCI and all that stuff. And he find that if they build out their own PC with the higher end, you know, graphics card and all the RAM that could fit in it, that it does work better. So I think they're using that as the comparison more of a video editor and a video professional.
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But yeah, it would be I'm sure all the people on YouTube, you know, that do the unboxing and the comparisons and whatever, we'll have real world performance benchmarks and comparisons and the next
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well, that's what it looks interesting. Everyone's buying them before those have been done. That's right now everyone's buying those on a promise. Well, and to be fair, they earned it right that m one was
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I was gonna say, yeah, they don't they bought it on the promise from the first m one just in a 13 inch MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, they outperformed most of the pieces in their class. Yeah, just
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about anything at that, especially with that power output. So I'm hoping that someone will start taking those apart and putting some of those parts into Windows PC because that'd be really awesome.
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Alright, so that's, uh, anything more to say on your your dream computer?
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Yeah, I'm glad they brought ports back was more glad they got rid of the touch bar.
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And for everybody, you know, hating on the knotch or whatever, I'm sure after using it for a week or so you're gonna forget about it. Just like everybody crapped on the notch on the iPhone,
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and I just don't get anything. But but there's no face ID to me. If you're gonna bring in that you need to bring in some reason for the notch right now. It's it's a webcam holder, I don't get that.
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It's a better webcam, and it takes away a little bit adds a little bit more screen size. I mean, if you just move that menu bar up, and that notches in the middle, you get a few more pixels.
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I mean, it's not that big a deal. I just don't get why I'm guessing the FaceTime gizmos are just too big to fit in that little lid. Yeah, it's the only thing that makes sense. But it's like, oh, you're done the knotch and did FaceTime people wouldn't complain. They'd be like, oh, cool, but
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they did but it's still a mini LED screen, which is pretty nice. It's gonna be pretty nice.
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For sure. For sure. We can move on so if we can move on, you're done.
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fanboying it out.
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Now I'm just waiting for it to come in.
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fair. That's fair. Yeah, well, that's interesting though.
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So I read a thing today that if you didn't buy in is true for almost all of their products right now. Almost all Apple products right now are like a month or so out. If you didn't buy the iPhone 13 You're waiting now like they had them initially they had a pile of them. They sold all those and now they're weighed in the Macs are already a month out. I mean, the chip shortages finally arrived for Apple even though they're the big kahuna. They're
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not even it's not even just the chips but it's just the supply chains in general for even places like Target are having like oh yeah, with Christmas coming up and people ordering toys and stuff like that for their kids early and then they might not even get them until after December.
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I heard an interesting stat and I we are often on absolute tangents. All right. I heard an interesting stat though. The average length of time that a ship coming into the LA port just sits there and waits. Guess how long it is today or before the right now right now. So think of a big tanker ship is just waiting to unload.
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Maybe I don't know a day or so. 12 days 12 days well to Shane's. They are
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sitting there just waiting for average of 12 days and it's getting worse. There's a podcast I listen to that's been tracking it is getting worse on average every day. So these poor captains just sit and park for 12 days just waiting around. And then there's lines of trucks all around the port.
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Hundreds and hundreds of tractor trailers waiting to pick these things up. It is bonkers. I mean, the supply chain thing is, is real man, it is crazy.
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Now, I used to audit moving bills back in the day.
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And there was a charge called wait time where if a truck with your shipment arrived at your house for delivery, and you're in there to accept it.
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Regardless of the circumstance, you get charged for every hour.
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So could you imagine if these ships had like a wait time charge?
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I'm sure that that's probably one of the things why all these things are getting more expensive. All right, I'm gonna do a hard turn. Today's topic does your it's a real it's a real light one NDAs NDA non disclosure agreements. That's is that sounds like 60s It is I think, right there.
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It sounds extremely legal, somewhat terrifying, but at the same time has a big effect on even what I do as a designer.
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I think if when you say NDAs, you have to do Barry White voice, I think that will help make it more interesting to talk about. So an NDA, non disclosure agreements. And the reason I bring them up, and the reason why they're important is in any startup, any business that's getting their feet off the ground. I don't care what industry you're in, you believe you have an idea? That is so monumentally amazing that you don't want to tell anyone about it, because you think they're going to steal it. And that is the the crux of the NDA. So for those who don't know what I'm saying, this is a legal document. That is usually pretty small, few pages, four or five pages, you can grab them off of any template website, they're nothing fancy. But what they basically say is, you're not allowed to talk about what we talk about. You can't you can't, whatever I share with you is his secrets. And you can't tell anybody about it. And if you do, I can sue you is
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basically the gist of it.
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Illegal promised to keep your mouth shut until it's ready to show the public. And some of
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them are pretty egregious. Like it's like you can't talk about it for a year afterward on talking stuff like that. And so why do I bring this up? Why does this matter? Why, who cares about this? Everybody should care about this if you have a small business. And the reason why is because the tendency is for startups to do this too early. They think again, I have this magical snowflake of an idea that that is going to be stolen by everyone who hears it because it's so groundbreaking. Okay, maybe that's true. But the odds of someone signing an NDA, before talking to you really small, especially when it comes to finance people. I've had people, okay, so big pixel, we sign NDAs. We don't care that much the only thing we have when we talk about them, and we're very upfront about this, if you come to us with an idea, I'm happy to not talk about that with anybody else. But if another dude comes to me with the same exact idea, and wants us to build that we need to be able to build both, right?
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Because now we're not going to talk about it to each other, right? We're going to be quiet about it. But those we can't shoot ourselves in the foot because you have an idea that might not ever come to fruition, right? That's Now
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granted, these ideas might not be exactly the same, but they just might be perceived as close enough. Correct? Anyways,
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so we don't want to shoot ourselves and from a business perspective, but what what the big warning here is that I'm trying to give is, if you're going for money, I promise you, they're not going to sign one.
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And they're going to kind of be insulted because like, Who are you, you're a new nobody. You're a new startup, no one knows your name. You're not bestowed or whatever. You You are telling me then that I can't talk about this idea. When someone might be coming to my door tomorrow, right or whatever. And I can't I can't pension, I can't wall myself off from that potential opportunity with that person as well. And they'll just shoot you down. And they won't even take an audience with you. And that's what you got to be careful of when you're doing an NDA. When you're thinking about it. We get approached by this all the time and I give warnings. Hey, we'll sign it fine. We don't mind. But a lot of people won't. And, and what's also even more than the actual document itself. The thing I think that's important to keep in mind is it's a it's a mental state. If I think my idea is so secret that I need to protect it at all cost. That means you're not going to talk about very well to other people.
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You're out at a schmoozer.
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Right, you're you're you're talking to potential partners, you're talking to potential you don't know who they are. You're you're just talking and everyone asked what you're working on.
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Right, that's the common question at any of these events,
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and it can end up hurting yourself. Yeah,
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if you're not open, one, your passion is not going to come through, right, because you're going to be stammering and hiding behind your own idea, which is so strange. But I've seen it, I've seen it in real life. And they, well, you know, we're working on this thing, it's gonna, it's gonna revolutionize transportation, and it's gonna be really great.
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I'm really excited about it, then that's, that's the end.
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That's the oh, that's all I can tell you, you know, without an NDA. And like, dude, no, man, I want you to, I want you to get excited, right, that's what's gonna get me as a potential partner. That's what's gonna get me as a potential investor.
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Excited is your passion. You know what I'm saying?
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Absolutely. Also, if you can't really explain your idea, to someone who might be a potential investor, it might come off as you don't really know what you're talking about.
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You might not have done all the research the footwork, you might not know where it's going, you just have an idea. But you haven't done, you know, the work necessary to make that idea into a reality. But you're pretending I just I can't talk about it all, because NDA makes it sound, you know, mystical. But at the same time, it also makes it sound like you just don't know what you're talking about.
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Well, it could be both ways. You could be someone who actually doesn't know what they're talking about, right?
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You have an idea. It's super, it's super squishy. But you're gonna hide under that banner, right? That's one side of it that you mentioned, the other side of it is you actually do know it. You know it really, really well, but you can't talk about it. So you sound like you don't write because you're hiding behind your fear. There was a great quote. This, I believe it was the first I heard it was Will Smith of all people.
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I don't know if he coined it.
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Okay, wait, let's just say this. Now, almost every episode, you throw out a quote, in almost every episode, you don't claim to know who the quote is from.
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So this is a classic Michael Scott Wayne Gretzky from the office. So every time that, you know, there's this quote, I'm gonna chime in with Michael Scott Wayne Gretzky. This, Michael Scott,
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this is a real quote, by Will Smith, who is, you know, a modern philosopher, as we all know, I mean, parents just don't understand. But he says, the best moments of your life, I'm paraphrasing, because I'm not as eloquent as him. But the best moments of your life are just on the other side of that fear. It was like he was the context that he said it and he was about to jump out of a plane for the first time he was doing some YouTube video or whatever. And, and he was talking. I don't know why he got philosophical, but he's like, the greatest moments of your life on the other side of your greatest fear, something like that. And I loved that quote, even though I'm butchering it horribly, but it's the same thing with startups, right? You're afraid of letting your idea of get out into the world, because someone's gonna steal it, the odds of someone actually stealing a pre tiny, I mean, you don't want to be a moron about it and go to netflix and tell them about your new video idea, right? Obviously, right? They cannot tech you. But when you're out in a bunch of people, you know, peers, and maybe a couple of rungs up, they're not gonna steal your idea. That's not their business, their businesses to generally speaking, most people want to help you, especially in this area, maybe that's not true in New York, maybe that's not true in San Francisco. But in smaller second tier cities like Raleigh and whatnot, they all want you to succeed, because it makes everyone happy, and they don't want to steal your idea, generally speaking. So get over that fear. Get out there, show your stuff. Be as be as passionate, as authoritative, as knowledgeable as you can. And don't worry necessarily about.
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Because at the end of the day, and I've said this before, but the end of the day, the idea is is not worth the paper you're writing on. What matters is the execution of that idea. So if two people have the same exact idea, and one execute to one doesn't Guess who wins?
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Not the Microsoft Zune.
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Oh, again, that's two weeks, the two weeks that is just wrong. That was gone flawlessly, flawlessly. I tell you, No, it No, you're
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absolutely right. And I agree with you. Like you said, the ideas and worth of the papers written on until it's executed. So even if someone does steal, copy, or take part of your idea, and try to compete with you, if their execution is poor, because they don't have that knowledge. They don't have that passion. They didn't work with the people who helped them grow it. It's going to be a flash in the pan, it's not really going to damage you in the long run. In most cases,
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and most Yeah, I mean, we have to cya there. Because if someone's gonna do it, I wouldn't do it. And they still might, it could happen. But odds are, if you can execute, just do it. And here's the thing, if your idea is great, most likely someone's working on an already.
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I mean, these sort of ideas come in waves, right? It's always interesting to me, how they always seem to similar or ideas just boop boop boop, there's three of them that do the same thing. Did they all steal each other's idea? I doubt it because it took two or three years to get the thing out the door anyways, maybe they all were at the same schmoozer and got the same idea and ran. I suppose that's possible in San Francisco, maybe. But
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it's usually not like an original, just made up out of nowhere idea. It's usually just something that already exists altered to fit something else.
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So yeah, they've got a twist on it, right? Chances are more than one more than one person or company is trying to do the same thing. Of course. Yeah.
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Sure. Well, but I mean, I mean, and usually the way it happens is, even the big boys like this use Slack as an example. Slack was a pretty transformative idea. I will say that I actually had the idea for slack. Before slack. This is a true story. When I first started big pixel, so we're going nine years ago, I we didn't have much work. We had no clients. So I started building my own startup idea. And it was I'm not kidding you. It was a chat room, like a business chat room that was focused on projects. So you would be talking about a side project, you'd have a channel specifically for that chat room.
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Okay, that was my idea. And I was getting to the point where I was developing and all that. And I pitched it. I don't know if that's the right word for it.
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But I got advice from a lot of people. And every single one of them told me this is a dumb idea. No, no question. dumb idea. No one would would want to do this. They'll use it was like HipChat back, then they will use Yammer. And then they will have a project management tool separate. And that's that you're a moron.
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Okay, back then it was just an email, email, email.
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And so no, six months later, Slack enters the market and change the world. And I was like, come on, no, but I built slack. But but you see what they did, right? They got out there.
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And now they're public. And they're running. And they're they have millions of users. And the big boys are like, Ooh, I want some of that, right. And then Microsoft comes out with teams. Yeah, it took them a long time to come up with teams. But they're absolutely copying slack. If you have a good idea, the competition is coming. And eventually now, Microsoft using their muscle not to go too far into it, but and their market, they, they use their muscle of Office and Office 365 to basically just dominate. And it got to the point where slack had to merge with Salesforce, to keep up they needed and which is weird, because they were a multi billion dollar company. And they were about to get eaten by the biggest of whales. And so they had to join with a another whale. And so to keep fighting.
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And it's I find that really interesting, but I'm just saying the competition is coming. I don't know how I got off on this tangent. I apologize to anyone who's listening.
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What we were talking about how you know, chances are more than one company is going to have the same idea. It's a branch off the NDA thing.
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Yeah, I mean, it all comes down to just be fearless.
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I think that's the key if you really want your, your startup to work, your idea to work. And this is true for a brand new company, or a new idea in an existing company. I think both of those are strong candidates for this piece of advice here, you've got to let it loose in your mind, because people are going to get excited by your passion, every single more so than the idea. It's Gosh, man, I think he can really make this happen. Or she can make this happen. Because she's so passionate about this, she obviously loves this, she's going to take this to the next level, whatever it is, and that is what's going to make you successful, not the actual idea because the idea will change.
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Yeah, I agree with that.
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I think I just I I think that's a subject that's not often talked about and worth you know, getting that thing out there. If I could say anything, it would be let your passion free, because that's what's gonna that's what's gonna make it that's that's probably going to be a recurring theme as these episodes go on. If I were to sum it all up, I would say that, a start up a business idea, a new venture of any sort is going to succeed based off of your passion First, your knowledge second, and your execution third. Now those are very tightly woven. Don't get me wrong, and you're not going to succeed unless you do all three of them. But I think in my experience, people get most excited in that order. Man, that person is so passionate. Oh man, she knows everything on the subject. Oh yeah, they're really good. executer those three things you think of it like a cheap 90s outdoor furniture made of was that kind of stuff? Woven cheesy furniture, then I'm thinking of wicker, wicker. It's the wicker
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wicker furniture. That's probably a worst worse.
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It is and and probably shouldn't be hanging my hat on that but it makes it visually it makes sense. You want to have three of those to be woven together like a bad polyester suit. That's what I'm saying.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Okay.
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Oh, yeah, I don't know.
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Take it for what you will. So okay, so I want to end on on a fun note.
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Speaking of
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speaking of fashion, a fun note, have you seen the razors? RGB facemask that came out
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looking at it right now?
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And oh my gosh, it's so so there's neat post apocalyptic graffiti artists dream.
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I think I almost looks like something you would have seen in Robocop back in the day.
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We'll have the link in the in the shownotes. But think okay, so backups because know what most people don't know who razor is. It's our A Z er, by the way, if you want to look these guys up, but razor is a company gaming company. Well, they're a game tech company. So they make really high end PCs. I've had some in the past for gaming.
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They mice, keyboards and mice all that's in their studios.
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They put RGB lights on everything.
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Yeah, they even do like headphones and chairs and pretty much anything just
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doing Cesari. Yes, they have a mouse pad. That's RGB lit. And now they have and they announced this like a year ago.
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But now they've come out with it's a face mask that Corona face mask. And it's genius in some of the ways but it's so over the top. So it's got these two looks, it looks like a gas mask.
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Yeah, it looks like a painter's mask from the future.
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Yeah, and it's so it's RGB around the the circles of the mask. And then the front of the mask is clear. But you can light your own face up with the RGB lights, which so now you can look like you're this sick.
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And there's little yeah, there's little like accents around the trimwork of it that I'm sure will light up in anime are the lights will move around.
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The funny thing is crazy. I mean, yeah, it looks cool. Okay, and it looks like you should be in one of the games. You're playing on a razor. But the we're reading I'm reading this article and gadget, and the beginning of the last paragraph says innocence. razors mask is a gamble that paid off. Go above it. It starts at 100 to $150.
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Yeah,
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it's expensive. It's an in 95 mass, but it's not a medical device. They they're very clear on that. It's not a medical device. It's not going to prevent COVID or anything like that. They don't want to get trouble. But I just find it very interesting. I guess it just took this long
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to design. Well, they have a dual fan system.
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Yeah, I imagine it seems like the thing would be so heavy. You can adjust
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the color of the lights on your face through your mobile app.
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Of course you can. But it's a little late in the corona thing, even if this was the greatest idea ever. Corona and it's not gone. But it's it's on the downward trend right now.
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Right? Delta has come it's going down as this is being recorded, at least. Maybe that's the next surge around the corner, they're going to make bazillions of dollars. But there it just seems like a strange time to release something like this.
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But they're also they're seeing you know, they're branding it as a wearable, too.
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So they're trying to play it Apple as like a, like an Apple Watch. Yeah, I guess you can call it that.
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I just want the other thing that practically speaking, I know, originally, everyone had those masks that had the little vents on them. Yeah, and they thought those were great. And then everybody's like, those are horrible. Don't get those. And that's what this looks like.
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Even though it's better than that. I'm wonder if the average person is gonna be like, That's a trash mask. It's got a vent on it. But anyway, I just find this to be so fascinating that a gaming company is making 150 What's the market for this?
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That's what I don't really understand. me imagine some surgeon walking in,
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where I was just gonna say, can you imagine going to like a, let's and I really hope this does not happen. And I'm not. But in a weird realm of possibilities if there were these, like mobile COVID units that would come around test people, you know, vaccines if like another variant came by that we need, you know, even more boosters or whatever. And let's say all these mobile units are outfitted with these uniforms in these masks to match like, that is some futuristic outbreak kind of stuff, right?
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Yeah, that's like
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Minority Report. If you got the government black van, the door kicks open and five dudes and all black and these glowy masks come out. Soon bizarre do you have
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COVID? It's more like Rico.
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Yeah, I'm thinking the old game Half Life if you've ever played that half life to one of the best games ever. That very reminiscent of that.
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Anyway, take a look at those if you have a strange need to put a glowy thing on your face to protect yourself from COVID I guess it's not any weirder than some of the masks I've seen around nowadays, but
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but there you go. Yeah, and we didn't get any questions this week.
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If we did not get any questions come on people. Let's go all 12 of you send me a question because I want to answer it.
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But related food really not
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tech related or office furniture related. Spread I'm taking orders for No I'm not.
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I'm telling you. I'm going to teach you because next week we're going to talk about my newest obsession, which is my Nespresso machine. I'm not going to talk deeply about it right now. But I'm going to tease it because that's coming because I'm I'm in love with that thing.
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But anyway. So if you have an espresso questions, yeah, feel free email Hello at the big pixel dotnet and we will read them all and hopefully be able to put some on our next or future episodes But on that note, we're going to head out and I thank you so much for joining us. If you are enjoying it, please spread the word and subscribe. We do have a we have a listener regular listener in Germany, which I think find really amazing. I don't know this person. But they they listen every single week. So thank you, Mr. German, or Mrs.
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German person, for tuning in.
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That's awesome. And yeah, we're international man. We run an international UK. All 12 people, but one,
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learn how to say hello in German, then.
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i My son's taking German.
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I should ask him to come in here and do some stuff next week.
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Next week. Yeah, do a German shout out. Alright, we're out.
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Thank you so much.
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See you guys next week.
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So let me let me paint the picture for you. So I got for my my newest toy in my office, I'm building it out, I got a tempered glass chair mat for underneath my rolly chair, and I just love it. Well, the problem with the glass one is a little nudge and I am flying across the room it is even
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how long I was looking for the Dr. Evil GIF of him rolling up to the desk, and then going past it and the cameras still in the same spot. And then he slowly works his way back.
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That's what I was looking for that and I couldn't find it.
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I'm still getting used to because seriously, like, I just, I'm done for the day. Bye bye.
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In the wall, in the wall. So welcome, everybody. This is the biz dev Podcast, the podcast about developing your business.
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I'm David Baxter here as your host. And joining me as always is Gary Voight. I don't know.
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Yes. So we are enjoying the fall weather here. Well, I guess you're in Florida, aren't you so you don't get weather? Well, you get high our fall hotter.
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Our fall weather is when the humidity dips down a little bit. And everybody treats it like it's winter.
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I'm so sorry for you because I will say I grew up in Texas. And there are there are two seasons in Texas.
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swelteringly hot and kind of cold. And that's about it. You might get a couple of weeks where it's a nice in between.
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But I'm moved out to and I live in Florida for a while which well, barely. I lived in Tallahassee, so that's mostly Georgia. But even that was still not great. But moving up to North Carolina. I get four seasons. And I don't know how anyone doesn't do that. Because it is glorious. Springtime and full time or just glorious.
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Yeah,
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everybody can it leaves.
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So I was I was able to enjoy the Four Seasons didn't really like winter after the first week or so. Because it just seemed like just a mess. It just seemed like a muddy, salty, gross mess.
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I've never been up seahorse where snow is a thing for us even now. We'll get snow once a year, twice a year maybe.
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And it dumps it. We all enjoy it.
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Yeah, that's kind of cool.
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That's gonna be it's fun. It's an event.
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It's not a season. I went to Cleveland for a meeting years ago. And we landed in I don't remember, it was November, December. And it was weird to me because I could see there was a snow and it was just there like permanently. It was just snow was part of their life. And that was so weird to me. Because that's just not my experience at all.
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It makes you wonder why Canadians are always so happy.
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It's the trees and syrup.
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Yeah, I'm gonna be sir. So I was one of the big things that happened this week was the new MacBooks came out. Yeah. And like half of our team ran out to buy them. I know you are one of them. Yeah, and bought one.
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But it's not just because of the hype. I mean, yes, I am an Apple user. And I do like their products. But I've been waiting for a laptop that can actually run the apps that I use all the time without choking up the fan turning on and all that stuff. When the M one first came out, I was like, Ah, this might be the answer to everything. So then I was just patiently waiting for the MacBook Pro to have it. There was a
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lot of version of it.
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Yeah, they wanted the beefy version of the new chips. And they finally got it. And yeah, I think three of our team members got it with what's interesting is, we're all buying them based on a promise that they will be as good as the M one. Because the promises that they made with that thing, are so outlandish.
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They basically say it's as good as a Nvidia 3080 GPU, which is the top of the line, and it uses a third of its power. Yeah, if that's true, and only the reviews will tell us that that's one of the things I'm just kind of curious about. If that's true. That is such a remarkable jump and technology. paradigm shift. Yeah, I mean, Windows laptops, and I'm a Windows guy.
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So I'm certainly not a Mac fanboy here. But that is such a jump in, in everything that Windows has just been left in the dust as as a and I mean windows, as in all the people who build the PCs, we're talking, I've got a Zephyrus G 15 Right now, which is a wonderful computer. But if even half of what they say is true, that you can go eight plus hours and you have a 3080 in your
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thing, then yeah. Now the weird thing is the hardware and software working together because they're building all their own stuff is definitely a huge, you know, plus for them to be able to control performance and how it works with PCs, since everything's kind of interchangeable things are made by different companies and whatnot. I guess there's less of a continuity thing there when they also
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cheat. But yeah, When they say look at us, they're using their software doing stuff that they have prepared for the court and they don't game which is really one of the few reasons you need. Yeah, I mean, if you're a video guy sure, I get it. One of our guys who works with us to do video is like, yeah, I bought the beast. In one Max one matches a super expensive computer, apparently, too.
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Well, that's it. That's the one that's maxed out with everything at what is
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pretty pretty beefy. He got the 32 gigs, the whole thing. But what I'm saying is that, okay, that guy might need it. But most people who want to beat a computer are gamers, and you can't game on a Mac worth a darn. I mean, you can play something but so I'm curious, in a real world environment, why you would need that horsepower or what how it will be tested?
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How do you compare the 3080? To this in a real world scenario? I don't know,
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when you see real world. I think the market that Apple is actually going for are the graphics and video professionals. It's not that's not really going after the gamers. So their world are you talking about like the benchmark compares? Yeah,
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their benchmark their their charting, saying, Look, we compete with Nvidia. Let's do this. I mean, they're throwing the gauntlet down there, they're pulling out the white glove and slapping a video across the face and say, let's do this, right,
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that's because a lot of video editors, they'll use the apple editing software, and then we'll use Adobe Premiere, and then we'll use the VINCI and all that stuff. And he find that if they build out their own PC with the higher end, you know, graphics card and all the RAM that could fit in it, that it does work better. So I think they're using that as the comparison more of a video editor and a video professional.
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But yeah, it would be I'm sure all the people on YouTube, you know, that do the unboxing and the comparisons and whatever, we'll have real world performance benchmarks and comparisons and the next
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well, that's what it looks interesting. Everyone's buying them before those have been done. That's right now everyone's buying those on a promise. Well, and to be fair, they earned it right that m one was
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I was gonna say, yeah, they don't they bought it on the promise from the first m one just in a 13 inch MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, they outperformed most of the pieces in their class. Yeah, just
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about anything at that, especially with that power output. So I'm hoping that someone will start taking those apart and putting some of those parts into Windows PC because that'd be really awesome.
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Alright, so that's, uh, anything more to say on your your dream computer?
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Yeah, I'm glad they brought ports back was more glad they got rid of the touch bar.
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And for everybody, you know, hating on the knotch or whatever, I'm sure after using it for a week or so you're gonna forget about it. Just like everybody crapped on the notch on the iPhone,
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and I just don't get anything. But but there's no face ID to me. If you're gonna bring in that you need to bring in some reason for the notch right now. It's it's a webcam holder, I don't get that.
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It's a better webcam, and it takes away a little bit adds a little bit more screen size. I mean, if you just move that menu bar up, and that notches in the middle, you get a few more pixels.
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I mean, it's not that big a deal. I just don't get why I'm guessing the FaceTime gizmos are just too big to fit in that little lid. Yeah, it's the only thing that makes sense. But it's like, oh, you're done the knotch and did FaceTime people wouldn't complain. They'd be like, oh, cool, but
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they did but it's still a mini LED screen, which is pretty nice. It's gonna be pretty nice.
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For sure. For sure. We can move on so if we can move on, you're done.
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fanboying it out.
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Now I'm just waiting for it to come in.
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fair. That's fair. Yeah, well, that's interesting though.
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So I read a thing today that if you didn't buy in is true for almost all of their products right now. Almost all Apple products right now are like a month or so out. If you didn't buy the iPhone 13 You're waiting now like they had them initially they had a pile of them. They sold all those and now they're weighed in the Macs are already a month out. I mean, the chip shortages finally arrived for Apple even though they're the big kahuna. They're
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not even it's not even just the chips but it's just the supply chains in general for even places like Target are having like oh yeah, with Christmas coming up and people ordering toys and stuff like that for their kids early and then they might not even get them until after December.
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I heard an interesting stat and I we are often on absolute tangents. All right. I heard an interesting stat though. The average length of time that a ship coming into the LA port just sits there and waits. Guess how long it is today or before the right now right now. So think of a big tanker ship is just waiting to unload.
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Maybe I don't know a day or so. 12 days 12 days well to Shane's. They are
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sitting there just waiting for average of 12 days and it's getting worse. There's a podcast I listen to that's been tracking it is getting worse on average every day. So these poor captains just sit and park for 12 days just waiting around. And then there's lines of trucks all around the port.
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Hundreds and hundreds of tractor trailers waiting to pick these things up. It is bonkers. I mean, the supply chain thing is, is real man, it is crazy.
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Now, I used to audit moving bills back in the day.
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And there was a charge called wait time where if a truck with your shipment arrived at your house for delivery, and you're in there to accept it.
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Regardless of the circumstance, you get charged for every hour.
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So could you imagine if these ships had like a wait time charge?
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I'm sure that that's probably one of the things why all these things are getting more expensive. All right, I'm gonna do a hard turn. Today's topic does your it's a real it's a real light one NDAs NDA non disclosure agreements. That's is that sounds like 60s It is I think, right there.
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It sounds extremely legal, somewhat terrifying, but at the same time has a big effect on even what I do as a designer.
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I think if when you say NDAs, you have to do Barry White voice, I think that will help make it more interesting to talk about. So an NDA, non disclosure agreements. And the reason I bring them up, and the reason why they're important is in any startup, any business that's getting their feet off the ground. I don't care what industry you're in, you believe you have an idea? That is so monumentally amazing that you don't want to tell anyone about it, because you think they're going to steal it. And that is the the crux of the NDA. So for those who don't know what I'm saying, this is a legal document. That is usually pretty small, few pages, four or five pages, you can grab them off of any template website, they're nothing fancy. But what they basically say is, you're not allowed to talk about what we talk about. You can't you can't, whatever I share with you is his secrets. And you can't tell anybody about it. And if you do, I can sue you is
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basically the gist of it.
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Illegal promised to keep your mouth shut until it's ready to show the public. And some of
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them are pretty egregious. Like it's like you can't talk about it for a year afterward on talking stuff like that. And so why do I bring this up? Why does this matter? Why, who cares about this? Everybody should care about this if you have a small business. And the reason why is because the tendency is for startups to do this too early. They think again, I have this magical snowflake of an idea that that is going to be stolen by everyone who hears it because it's so groundbreaking. Okay, maybe that's true. But the odds of someone signing an NDA, before talking to you really small, especially when it comes to finance people. I've had people, okay, so big pixel, we sign NDAs. We don't care that much the only thing we have when we talk about them, and we're very upfront about this, if you come to us with an idea, I'm happy to not talk about that with anybody else. But if another dude comes to me with the same exact idea, and wants us to build that we need to be able to build both, right?
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Because now we're not going to talk about it to each other, right? We're going to be quiet about it. But those we can't shoot ourselves in the foot because you have an idea that might not ever come to fruition, right? That's Now
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granted, these ideas might not be exactly the same, but they just might be perceived as close enough. Correct? Anyways,
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so we don't want to shoot ourselves and from a business perspective, but what what the big warning here is that I'm trying to give is, if you're going for money, I promise you, they're not going to sign one.
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And they're going to kind of be insulted because like, Who are you, you're a new nobody. You're a new startup, no one knows your name. You're not bestowed or whatever. You You are telling me then that I can't talk about this idea. When someone might be coming to my door tomorrow, right or whatever. And I can't I can't pension, I can't wall myself off from that potential opportunity with that person as well. And they'll just shoot you down. And they won't even take an audience with you. And that's what you got to be careful of when you're doing an NDA. When you're thinking about it. We get approached by this all the time and I give warnings. Hey, we'll sign it fine. We don't mind. But a lot of people won't. And, and what's also even more than the actual document itself. The thing I think that's important to keep in mind is it's a it's a mental state. If I think my idea is so secret that I need to protect it at all cost. That means you're not going to talk about very well to other people.
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You're out at a schmoozer.
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Right, you're you're you're talking to potential partners, you're talking to potential you don't know who they are. You're you're just talking and everyone asked what you're working on.
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Right, that's the common question at any of these events,
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and it can end up hurting yourself. Yeah,
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if you're not open, one, your passion is not going to come through, right, because you're going to be stammering and hiding behind your own idea, which is so strange. But I've seen it, I've seen it in real life. And they, well, you know, we're working on this thing, it's gonna, it's gonna revolutionize transportation, and it's gonna be really great.
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I'm really excited about it, then that's, that's the end.
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That's the oh, that's all I can tell you, you know, without an NDA. And like, dude, no, man, I want you to, I want you to get excited, right, that's what's gonna get me as a potential partner. That's what's gonna get me as a potential investor.
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Excited is your passion. You know what I'm saying?
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Absolutely. Also, if you can't really explain your idea, to someone who might be a potential investor, it might come off as you don't really know what you're talking about.
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You might not have done all the research the footwork, you might not know where it's going, you just have an idea. But you haven't done, you know, the work necessary to make that idea into a reality. But you're pretending I just I can't talk about it all, because NDA makes it sound, you know, mystical. But at the same time, it also makes it sound like you just don't know what you're talking about.
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Well, it could be both ways. You could be someone who actually doesn't know what they're talking about, right?
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You have an idea. It's super, it's super squishy. But you're gonna hide under that banner, right? That's one side of it that you mentioned, the other side of it is you actually do know it. You know it really, really well, but you can't talk about it. So you sound like you don't write because you're hiding behind your fear. There was a great quote. This, I believe it was the first I heard it was Will Smith of all people.
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I don't know if he coined it.
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Okay, wait, let's just say this. Now, almost every episode, you throw out a quote, in almost every episode, you don't claim to know who the quote is from.
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So this is a classic Michael Scott Wayne Gretzky from the office. So every time that, you know, there's this quote, I'm gonna chime in with Michael Scott Wayne Gretzky. This, Michael Scott,
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this is a real quote, by Will Smith, who is, you know, a modern philosopher, as we all know, I mean, parents just don't understand. But he says, the best moments of your life, I'm paraphrasing, because I'm not as eloquent as him. But the best moments of your life are just on the other side of that fear. It was like he was the context that he said it and he was about to jump out of a plane for the first time he was doing some YouTube video or whatever. And, and he was talking. I don't know why he got philosophical, but he's like, the greatest moments of your life on the other side of your greatest fear, something like that. And I loved that quote, even though I'm butchering it horribly, but it's the same thing with startups, right? You're afraid of letting your idea of get out into the world, because someone's gonna steal it, the odds of someone actually stealing a pre tiny, I mean, you don't want to be a moron about it and go to netflix and tell them about your new video idea, right? Obviously, right? They cannot tech you. But when you're out in a bunch of people, you know, peers, and maybe a couple of rungs up, they're not gonna steal your idea. That's not their business, their businesses to generally speaking, most people want to help you, especially in this area, maybe that's not true in New York, maybe that's not true in San Francisco. But in smaller second tier cities like Raleigh and whatnot, they all want you to succeed, because it makes everyone happy, and they don't want to steal your idea, generally speaking. So get over that fear. Get out there, show your stuff. Be as be as passionate, as authoritative, as knowledgeable as you can. And don't worry necessarily about.
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Because at the end of the day, and I've said this before, but the end of the day, the idea is is not worth the paper you're writing on. What matters is the execution of that idea. So if two people have the same exact idea, and one execute to one doesn't Guess who wins?
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Not the Microsoft Zune.
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Oh, again, that's two weeks, the two weeks that is just wrong. That was gone flawlessly, flawlessly. I tell you, No, it No, you're
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absolutely right. And I agree with you. Like you said, the ideas and worth of the papers written on until it's executed. So even if someone does steal, copy, or take part of your idea, and try to compete with you, if their execution is poor, because they don't have that knowledge. They don't have that passion. They didn't work with the people who helped them grow it. It's going to be a flash in the pan, it's not really going to damage you in the long run. In most cases,
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and most Yeah, I mean, we have to cya there. Because if someone's gonna do it, I wouldn't do it. And they still might, it could happen. But odds are, if you can execute, just do it. And here's the thing, if your idea is great, most likely someone's working on an already.
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I mean, these sort of ideas come in waves, right? It's always interesting to me, how they always seem to similar or ideas just boop boop boop, there's three of them that do the same thing. Did they all steal each other's idea? I doubt it because it took two or three years to get the thing out the door anyways, maybe they all were at the same schmoozer and got the same idea and ran. I suppose that's possible in San Francisco, maybe. But
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it's usually not like an original, just made up out of nowhere idea. It's usually just something that already exists altered to fit something else.
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So yeah, they've got a twist on it, right? Chances are more than one more than one person or company is trying to do the same thing. Of course. Yeah.
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Sure. Well, but I mean, I mean, and usually the way it happens is, even the big boys like this use Slack as an example. Slack was a pretty transformative idea. I will say that I actually had the idea for slack. Before slack. This is a true story. When I first started big pixel, so we're going nine years ago, I we didn't have much work. We had no clients. So I started building my own startup idea. And it was I'm not kidding you. It was a chat room, like a business chat room that was focused on projects. So you would be talking about a side project, you'd have a channel specifically for that chat room.
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Okay, that was my idea. And I was getting to the point where I was developing and all that. And I pitched it. I don't know if that's the right word for it.
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But I got advice from a lot of people. And every single one of them told me this is a dumb idea. No, no question. dumb idea. No one would would want to do this. They'll use it was like HipChat back, then they will use Yammer. And then they will have a project management tool separate. And that's that you're a moron.
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Okay, back then it was just an email, email, email.
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And so no, six months later, Slack enters the market and change the world. And I was like, come on, no, but I built slack. But but you see what they did, right? They got out there.
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And now they're public. And they're running. And they're they have millions of users. And the big boys are like, Ooh, I want some of that, right. And then Microsoft comes out with teams. Yeah, it took them a long time to come up with teams. But they're absolutely copying slack. If you have a good idea, the competition is coming. And eventually now, Microsoft using their muscle not to go too far into it, but and their market, they, they use their muscle of Office and Office 365 to basically just dominate. And it got to the point where slack had to merge with Salesforce, to keep up they needed and which is weird, because they were a multi billion dollar company. And they were about to get eaten by the biggest of whales. And so they had to join with a another whale. And so to keep fighting.
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And it's I find that really interesting, but I'm just saying the competition is coming. I don't know how I got off on this tangent. I apologize to anyone who's listening.
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What we were talking about how you know, chances are more than one company is going to have the same idea. It's a branch off the NDA thing.
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Yeah, I mean, it all comes down to just be fearless.
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I think that's the key if you really want your, your startup to work, your idea to work. And this is true for a brand new company, or a new idea in an existing company. I think both of those are strong candidates for this piece of advice here, you've got to let it loose in your mind, because people are going to get excited by your passion, every single more so than the idea. It's Gosh, man, I think he can really make this happen. Or she can make this happen. Because she's so passionate about this, she obviously loves this, she's going to take this to the next level, whatever it is, and that is what's going to make you successful, not the actual idea because the idea will change.
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Yeah, I agree with that.
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I think I just I I think that's a subject that's not often talked about and worth you know, getting that thing out there. If I could say anything, it would be let your passion free, because that's what's gonna that's what's gonna make it that's that's probably going to be a recurring theme as these episodes go on. If I were to sum it all up, I would say that, a start up a business idea, a new venture of any sort is going to succeed based off of your passion First, your knowledge second, and your execution third. Now those are very tightly woven. Don't get me wrong, and you're not going to succeed unless you do all three of them. But I think in my experience, people get most excited in that order. Man, that person is so passionate. Oh man, she knows everything on the subject. Oh yeah, they're really good. executer those three things you think of it like a cheap 90s outdoor furniture made of was that kind of stuff? Woven cheesy furniture, then I'm thinking of wicker, wicker. It's the wicker
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wicker furniture. That's probably a worst worse.
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It is and and probably shouldn't be hanging my hat on that but it makes it visually it makes sense. You want to have three of those to be woven together like a bad polyester suit. That's what I'm saying.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Okay.
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Oh, yeah, I don't know.
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Take it for what you will. So okay, so I want to end on on a fun note.
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Speaking of
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speaking of fashion, a fun note, have you seen the razors? RGB facemask that came out
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looking at it right now?
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And oh my gosh, it's so so there's neat post apocalyptic graffiti artists dream.
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I think I almost looks like something you would have seen in Robocop back in the day.
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We'll have the link in the in the shownotes. But think okay, so backups because know what most people don't know who razor is. It's our A Z er, by the way, if you want to look these guys up, but razor is a company gaming company. Well, they're a game tech company. So they make really high end PCs. I've had some in the past for gaming.
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They mice, keyboards and mice all that's in their studios.
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They put RGB lights on everything.
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Yeah, they even do like headphones and chairs and pretty much anything just
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doing Cesari. Yes, they have a mouse pad. That's RGB lit. And now they have and they announced this like a year ago.
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But now they've come out with it's a face mask that Corona face mask. And it's genius in some of the ways but it's so over the top. So it's got these two looks, it looks like a gas mask.
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Yeah, it looks like a painter's mask from the future.
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Yeah, and it's so it's RGB around the the circles of the mask. And then the front of the mask is clear. But you can light your own face up with the RGB lights, which so now you can look like you're this sick.
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And there's little yeah, there's little like accents around the trimwork of it that I'm sure will light up in anime are the lights will move around.
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The funny thing is crazy. I mean, yeah, it looks cool. Okay, and it looks like you should be in one of the games. You're playing on a razor. But the we're reading I'm reading this article and gadget, and the beginning of the last paragraph says innocence. razors mask is a gamble that paid off. Go above it. It starts at 100 to $150.
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Yeah,
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it's expensive. It's an in 95 mass, but it's not a medical device. They they're very clear on that. It's not a medical device. It's not going to prevent COVID or anything like that. They don't want to get trouble. But I just find it very interesting. I guess it just took this long
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to design. Well, they have a dual fan system.
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Yeah, I imagine it seems like the thing would be so heavy. You can adjust
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the color of the lights on your face through your mobile app.
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Of course you can. But it's a little late in the corona thing, even if this was the greatest idea ever. Corona and it's not gone. But it's it's on the downward trend right now.
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Right? Delta has come it's going down as this is being recorded, at least. Maybe that's the next surge around the corner, they're going to make bazillions of dollars. But there it just seems like a strange time to release something like this.
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But they're also they're seeing you know, they're branding it as a wearable, too.
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So they're trying to play it Apple as like a, like an Apple Watch. Yeah, I guess you can call it that.
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I just want the other thing that practically speaking, I know, originally, everyone had those masks that had the little vents on them. Yeah, and they thought those were great. And then everybody's like, those are horrible. Don't get those. And that's what this looks like.
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Even though it's better than that. I'm wonder if the average person is gonna be like, That's a trash mask. It's got a vent on it. But anyway, I just find this to be so fascinating that a gaming company is making 150 What's the market for this?
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That's what I don't really understand. me imagine some surgeon walking in,
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where I was just gonna say, can you imagine going to like a, let's and I really hope this does not happen. And I'm not. But in a weird realm of possibilities if there were these, like mobile COVID units that would come around test people, you know, vaccines if like another variant came by that we need, you know, even more boosters or whatever. And let's say all these mobile units are outfitted with these uniforms in these masks to match like, that is some futuristic outbreak kind of stuff, right?
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Yeah, that's like
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Minority Report. If you got the government black van, the door kicks open and five dudes and all black and these glowy masks come out. Soon bizarre do you have
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COVID? It's more like Rico.
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Yeah, I'm thinking the old game Half Life if you've ever played that half life to one of the best games ever. That very reminiscent of that.
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Anyway, take a look at those if you have a strange need to put a glowy thing on your face to protect yourself from COVID I guess it's not any weirder than some of the masks I've seen around nowadays, but
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but there you go. Yeah, and we didn't get any questions this week.
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If we did not get any questions come on people. Let's go all 12 of you send me a question because I want to answer it.
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But related food really not
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tech related or office furniture related. Spread I'm taking orders for No I'm not.
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I'm telling you. I'm going to teach you because next week we're going to talk about my newest obsession, which is my Nespresso machine. I'm not going to talk deeply about it right now. But I'm going to tease it because that's coming because I'm I'm in love with that thing.
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But anyway. So if you have an espresso questions, yeah, feel free email Hello at the big pixel dotnet and we will read them all and hopefully be able to put some on our next or future episodes But on that note, we're going to head out and I thank you so much for joining us. If you are enjoying it, please spread the word and subscribe. We do have a we have a listener regular listener in Germany, which I think find really amazing. I don't know this person. But they they listen every single week. So thank you, Mr. German, or Mrs.
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German person, for tuning in.
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That's awesome. And yeah, we're international man. We run an international UK. All 12 people, but one,
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learn how to say hello in German, then.
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i My son's taking German.
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I should ask him to come in here and do some stuff next week.
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Next week. Yeah, do a German shout out. Alright, we're out.
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Thank you so much.
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See you guys next week.
