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185: TZ Interview – James Thomas / Headlands Technologies
Jason speaks with James Thomas, Director of Research for Headlands Technologies, LLC, about the business of high-frequency trading....
Listen » 184: TZ Discussion – Down the Memory Hole
Justin and Jason discuss their experiences at MicroConf and the Rock Rock Hotel, Justin's new focus on being focused, the Atlantic's article about Justin's Yelp nightmare, how Light Table raised $200k and Brydge raised 500k via Kickstarter, why Justin believes Kickstarter is the future of seed funding and should be called "kickstrapping", why Jason and...
Listen » 183: TZ Interview – Jason Cohen / WP Engine
Justin and Jason talk with Jason Cohen about his latest startup, WP Engine....
Listen » 182: TZ Interview – Matt Konda / Application Security
Justin and Jason talk with application security expert, Matt Konda, about how to harden web applications against common attacks, tools that can help locate vulnerabilities and his new security startup, Jemurai....
Listen » 181: TZ Discussion – When a Model is Just a Model
Justin's upcoming post about the Yelp review filtering system, the new version of Pluggio, looking forward to MicroConf, Freeman Dyson and his global warming heresy, a La Critique of RootBuzz, more thoughts on simulating the zombie apocalypse, island economics and the danger of extreme wealth inequality, TBTF banks and thoughts on...
Listen » 180: TZ Discussion – Simulating the Zombie Apocalypse
Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is moving back to LA, how he was swindled by a moving company and why the Yelp review system is partly to blame, how people are able to rationalize bad behavior by the creation of false narratives, how the US, Israel, Russia and China are influencing social...
Listen » 179: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Blowing Up DuckDuckGo
Justin and Jason talk in depth with Gabriel Weinberg about how he raised $3 million in venture capital for DuckDuckGo and how user growth has turned hockey stick....
Listen » 178: TZ Discussion – The Hacker News Slap
Justin and Jason discuss balancing time when bootstrapping, the categories and costs of context switching, strategies for recruiting AnyFu experts, the status of the AnyFu payout system, what was learned from the first five AnyFu sessions, the DNA of the perfect AnyFu expert, whether or not we're in a startup...
Listen » 177: TZ Interview – Dan Southworth / Divergence
Justin and Jason speak with actor / producer / stunt-man, Dan Southworth about life as the Quantum Ranger and how he bootstrapped the sci-fi / action web series Divergence....
Listen » 176: TZ Discussion – Why Favors Don’t Scale
Justin and Jason discuss some big donations from the Australian contingent, the story of Spent - an expense tracking iPhone app, the importance of momentum, how Ben Boyter got a raise, Justin's new life in Savannah, building an NDA signing service, the customer development being done for AnyFu, whether life is...
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