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#044 Brainstorming Bologna with Matt Ferrel and Ben Bator

Smart Friends

The Text Last Night Days Me, Is It a Past Tense?

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CNN's iReport.com is a weekly, offbeat look at what people are talking about on social media. This week we're looking at the viral success of Texfom. The site was started by two friends who wanted to chronicle their group chats in text form. It became so popular that they decided to turn it into an app and start making money from it. We'll be back next week with another round of texfom stories.

Topics:

(5:14) - Matt & Ben’s friendship origin

(8:42) - Starting Texts From Last Night

(18:17) - Matt’s early career with Google, Coachella & Lafayette American

(43:33) - Mille Mitten

(58:34) - Tik Tok, Ads and Algorithms

(1:06:55) - Elon Musk & Twitter

(1:15:38) - Fixing Movie Theaters & car charging infrastructure

(1:38:07) - Fixing conferences

(1:50:50) - Exercise: Rebranding the podcast

Links:

Texts from Last Night

Lafayette American

Mil-Spec Automotive

Alamo Drafthouse

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