Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) takes a seat with Erik Dunteman (@erikdoingthings), founder of banana.dev, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the world, moving to Mexico City, his ML infra startup Banana, dealing with rejection, how he trained for an Iron Man, his Citi Bike conspiracy theory, and more... Try Highlight for your team today! Links: · Erik's Twitter · Banana · The Dock Show Notes: 0:38- Banana Name Origin 3:03 - Moving To Mexico City 4:12 - Winning Crypto 7:38 - Finding Banana Co-Founder 10:24 - When To Leave A Startup 12:16 - Software 2.0 Explained 14:42 - Future Of AI 21:46 - Stable Diffusion 26:26 - Is A College Degree Important? 31:37 - GPT3 Explained 34:08 - Open AI/Whisper 37:22 - Robocalls 39:03 - Smart Home Tech  45:00 - Twitter Segment Intro 48:11 - Rejection Therapy 54:07 - How To Train for An Iron Man 55:56 - Erik’s Startup Journey 1:01:03  - Remember Clubhouse? 1:07:14 - Toilet Paper Startup 1:13:33 - Erik’s Running Process 1:23:48 - SF City Bikes Conspiracy

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) takes a seat with Abhishek Bhargava (@abhargava20) and talk about how his startup Covalent uses AI to start meaningful relationships, building a cloud gaming platform, and the wonderful world of Greek Yogurt and clean energy. Links: · Abishek's Twitter · Covalent · The Dock Show Notes: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - The Social Dilemma 3:28 - Mirror Exposure Effect  7:55 - Covalent Intro 11:05 - Foundational Value Alignment 12:54 - Covalent’s Main Thesis on Creating Relationships 17:00 - Tivity Intro 20:00 - Omar's Parking Story 22:00 - The Facebook Algorithm 25:37 - Covalent's Pivot 31:30 - Early-stage startup culture 34:04 - Work Background as an Intern 36:13 - Educational Background 37:50 - Gaming Startup  40:33 - Startup Lessons 42:05 - Why He Started Covalent 44:45 - F.Inc Community Building 48:41 - Startup Investments 50:50 - Slack Read Receipts 51:35 - VectorDash Business Learnings 53:25 - Yogurt Startup? 57:16 - Industrial Revolution 59:09 - Electricity Startup Idea

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) sit down with Johnny Dallas (@_johnnydallas_) and discuss how he started working in startups at 14, became the youngest engineer at Amazon, and built his DevOps startup Zeet. Links: · Johnny's Twitter · Zeet · thedock.fm Show Notes: 1:30 - Johnny’s Startup background 4:15 - Not going back to High School 8:52 - Youngest Engineer at Amazon 10:40 - Transitioning to Twitch Work Environment 11:42 - Zeet Company Overview 18:35 - Building the Zeet Team 31:23 - Daily Routine 41:15 - What Motivates Johnny 44:40 - Uber Conspiracy Theories 50:00 - Music Interests 54:14 - Pitching a Startup Segment 57:15 - Taking Zoom Calls in the Shower?

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) sit down with Labib Yasir (@labibyasir) to talk about going from YouTuber to reinventing social fitness with MMA and his startup, Kayyo. Links: · Labib's Twitter · REACT YouTube Channel · Kayyo · thedock.fm Show Notes: 6:13 - What is Kayyo 13:26 - 41k waitlist sign-ups pre-launch 17:00 - Getting rejected from Google 28:15 - Losing 120lbs 35:00 - How to find the right cofounder 1:06:00 - Labib’s First MMA Fight 1:32:00 - Pitching horrible startup ideas to Labib