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Soon: The Media Company Showing What’s Actually Happening in SF Tech

Lately, tech media feels split into two camps: content made only for insiders, or content that dunks on the industry from the outside. Soon is doing neither. I spoke with Soon CEO Patrick McGuire about his time at Vice, his move to San Francisco, and what it takes to build a Gen Z media company focused on what’s actually happening on the ground. We talk robot conventions, AI friend pendants, drone-powered cloud seeding, and how Soon pulled 1.2M viewers to its trailer. We also get into how Soon differs from creators like Cleo Abrams and TBPN, and what to expect from their upcoming ClawCon episode airing Friday. 00:00 START 00:33 Mission and Vision of Soon 04:11 Building the Team and Moving to San Francisco 05:32 Content Strategy 14:03 Exploring Controversial Tech Topics 17:21 Future Plans and Exciting Projects Follow Soon on X: https://x.com/soontechnology Follow Soon on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soontechnology Subscribe to the Braun & Brains newsletter: https://braunandbrains.substack.com/

The Sweet Spot for Blood Sugar Tracking with January AI CEO Noosheen Hashemi

Noosheen Hashemi is the founder and CEO of January AI [https://www.january.ai/], a company that leverages artificial intelligence to advance precision health and preventative care, with a focus on metabolic health.

Beauty and the Budget with BeautyRightBack Co-Founder ⁠Odette Yang

Odette Yang  [https://www.tiktok.com/@odetteyang]is the co-founder of BeautyRightBack [https://www.linkedin.com/company/brb-beautyrightback/], a platform offering unlimited mani, pedi, waxing, blowouts, and more starting at $99 a month.

Andy Dunn’s Pivot From Bonobos Fashion to Friendship

Andy Dunn is the founder of Pie [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pie-make-better-friends/id1509667820], a platform helping users make better friends by facilitating recurring in-person interactions and discovering local events. Previously, Andy was the co-founder of the menswear brand Bonobos in 2007 and served as its CEO until Walmart acquired it in 2017. His book Burn Rate covered his entrepreneurial journey as a founder with bipolar disorder. To read more, head on over to Substack: https://braunandbrains.substack.com/p/brains-andy-dunns-pivot-from-bonobos?r=28qckk

ARCHIVE 8/11/2020: Tech with Tim: Programming and Tech Tutorials, Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft (368k Subscribers!)

This episode is part of my archive series, where I share some of the very first podcast episodes I ever published. I think it’s important to showcase my earlier work—not just to show how long I’ve been interested in media, but to reflect on how far I’ve come. These episodes are, for the most part, rough and not well produced. That said, I’m extremely proud of them. Thanks for listening! ___ On Tim's channel, you can find videos on Python Programming, Game Development, Pygame, Java Tutorials and Machine Learning. He has helped me, and almost 400k other people, become inspired to program. In our episode, we talk about his background to coding, college in Canada, and his internship at Microsoft (spoiler alert: it is remote and he is NOT in Redmond, WA). He is 20 years old with more coding experience than most adults I know! Hope you enjoy this episode.  Tim's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWithTim/abou [https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWithTim/about]t  Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimeOutWithTim/about [https://www.youtube.com/c/TimeOutWithTim/about] Website: https://techwithtim.net/ [https://techwithtim.net/] Github: https://github.com/techwithtim [https://github.com/techwithtim] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/techwithtim [https://www.patreon.com/techwithtim]  My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braunandbrains/ [https://www.instagram.com/braunandbrains/]