014 - Jon Wheatley
Episode description
Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch
6:00 - Intro
7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis
15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis
18:30 - ArchGrants
22:00 - Going into Y Combinator
23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009
28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications
35:00 - Favorite American city
42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth
46:30 - Getting “banned” from America
54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year
58:30 - DailyBooth winding down
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1:01:00 - Starting up Peel
1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment
1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency
1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign
1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects
1:20:30 - Managing time & projects
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1:23:30 - Stopwatch
1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019
1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works
1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta
1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model
1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship
1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’
1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future
1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation
2:04:00 - Bruce Mau
2:07:30 - Making slingshots / Dead Eye Club
2:12:45 - White House trip
2:21:00 - Outro