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387: TZ Discussion – Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?

Justin — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:55:10 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s birthday, reactions and takeaways from the Elon Musk biography, the new Ray- Ban smart glasses, Lex Friedman’s metaverse interview of Musk Zuckerberg, the latest project superhero updates, how Justin got excited about List again, and John Romero’s Doom Guy.. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

369: TZ Interview – Jack Ellis / Fathom Analytics

Justin — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:16:11 +0000

Justin talks with Jack Ellis, co-founder of Fathom Analytics, about how two indie founders were able to get their indie analytics project installed (and scaled) on over 500k websites. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

358: TZ Discussion – Today’s Special: Hacker News Surprise

Justin — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:38:26 +0000

Justin & Jason talk about TaskFlow’s rebranding to List, Colby’s TechZing interview, Jason’s thoughts about Colby going to college, and Math Academy’s surprise launch on Hacker News. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

357: TZ Interview – Colby Roberts / Galactic Conquerors

Justin — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:11:07 +0000

Justin talks with Colby Roberts about his game Galactic Conquerors, and asks various questions submitted by TechZing listeners. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

347: TZ Interview – Brett Kennedy / Head of Robotics, JPL

Justin — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:32:54 +0000

Jason talks with Brett Kennedy, head of robotics at JPL.

337: TZ Discussion – Eurisko

Justin — Sun, 02 May 2021 04:17:43 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the radically accelerated computer-science course sequence that Jason created for his Math Academy students, why PHP is like the C of the web, the character Scotty Jackson is creating for Morning Brief, Justin’s foray into crypto trading, thoughts on the future of NFT’s, the story of how Jason was finally able to buy the domain mathacademy.com and why the .com TLD still rules the day, the hypothesis that the laws of physics are evolving, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Young Sheldon, and the Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, Jason’s upcoming interview on Donn Felker’s podcast, why starting a podcast is an inefficient content development strategy for startups, how the Math Academy system’s adaptive algorithms will create a personalized and optimal learning plan for each student, and how Jason is implementing a free-response evaluator for math problems.

334: TZ Interview – Adam Wathan on distribution & Tailwind CSS

Justin — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:38:19 +0000

Justin talks with Adam Wathan creator of Tailwind CSS about distribution, the journey from 0 to $2m, and startup lessons learned playing in death metal bands.

333: TZ Interview – Justin Jackson / Catch the Wave

Justin — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:15:48 +0000

Justin talks with Justin Jackson co-founder of transistor.fm about the importance of catching a good market wave.

Also Mentioned: Justin Vincent’s Indie Founder Bootcamp

325: TZ Discussion – Justin’s Widget

Justin — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:41:57 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss filmmaking with an iPhone and the power of the Filmic Pro app, the latest with Justin’s secret business widget, the Bob Lazar documentary on Netflix and his interview with Joe Rogan, Justin’s love of The Orville and other streaming recommendations, the summer math course Jason is teaching and how he’s tutoring his niece in calculus, the content and algorithms being developed for the Math Academy system, the importance of being challenged, the upcoming Washington Post article on Math Academy, what’s happening with OMG, how Luck Surface Area showed up in Gabriel Weinberg’s book Super Thinking, and why Justin likes the iPhone app Productive.

319: TZ Interview / Bryan Helmig – Zapier: The First 10 Customers

Justin — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:00:31 +0000

Justin talks with Bryan Helmig (CTO and co-founder of Zapier) about Zapier’s genesis and how they won their first 10 customers.

318: TZ Interview – Laura Kerber / NASA Research Scientist

Justin — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:37:49 +0000

Jason talks to NASA Research Scientist Laura Kerber.

314: TZ Discussion – Quantum of Utility

Justin — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 21:08:30 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss some new feature concepts for Nugget and Jason’s plans for the Math Academy software, the Masters Of Scale Uncut Interview with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, how Jason’s house is like the Tardis, the state of Justin’s cryptocurrency portfolio, Elon Musk’s fight against short sellers, top-down vs bottom-up automation, why MV Code Club’s future is looking bright, Jason’s most underrated movies list, real trends vs. fake trends, the key to happiness, the latest on Operation Superhero, finding underpriced freelance talent, why Jason isn’t crazy about the name Nugget, and the best genre of music for writing code.

302: TZ Interview – Joe Stech / Compelling Science Fiction

Justin — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:33:47 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Joe Stech about his online magazine, Compelling Science Fiction.

300: TZ Interview – Jason Roberts & Justin Vincent

Justin — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:19:12 +0000

Rob Walling guest hosts this seminal episode to walk Jason and Justin down memory lane during which they discuss how Rob wouldn’t allow Jason to invest in Drip, Appignite, Pluggio, AnyFu, Uber, the interview wth Travis Kalanick, Nugget, the madness, luck surface area, e ntreporn, blog posts as lead gen and how to make yourself into expert on the web, Jason’s prescience on Tesla and Bitcoin, the interview with Patrick Collison, how they got started doing the podcast and what they’ve gotten out of it, the meaning of some of the funnier show titles, Operation Superhero, the failure that was Justin’s treadmill desk and how the show has evolved over the years.

295: TZ Interview – Robin Warren / Corrello

Justin — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:43:09 +0000

Justin talks to Robin Warren about his bootstrapped startup Corrello, a dashboard for agile teams using Trello.

291: TZ Discussion – No Brain Required

Justin — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 04:39:54 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why they decided not to publish that last show, Jason’s Christmas debacle, how we’re living in the future, the documentary An Honest Liar, how Dean Kamen is solving the world’s drinking water problem, solving problems solution first, the First Robotics competition, Jason’s recent addiction to the mobil game Hex Fvr, Gone Girl, the Bastard Executioner, Homicide Hunter, the Nerdist Podcast interview with Joe Kenda and the Detective podcast, why Jason receives so many emails about his algorithmic trading blog post, Justin’s new project, Jason’s idea of aggregating a handful of trading strategies on Collective2 into a fund of funds, Wealthfront and Betterment, the man who had virtually no brain, Jason’s new math class, the progress with the Math Academy and the software that’s going to power it, the financial pluses and minuses of working for a startup, the stress of running Slack, why Justin thinks the engineers at Slack might snoop on conversations and why Jason is skeptical, treating human disease with the CRISPR technique, The Strain, Nick Bostrom, Super Intelligence, the Open AI initiative and whether true artificial intelligence would have to be imbued with a fear of death.

285: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Stoking the Traction Fire

Justin — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 03:32:24 +0000

Justin talks to Gabriel Weinberg about the re-release of his book Traction and the latest news on DuckDuckGo.

283: TZ Discussion – Extraordinary Claims

Justin — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:41:14 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s secret project, Lyte, how he built it and what he sees as its future, the possibility of transforming the math class into a math academy, how Uber is making the world a better place, why inexpensive self-teaching and test-prep books are often better than their equivalent textbooks, Jason’s new color laser printer, Chris Sacca’s anti-portfolio, the U.S. defense department’s interest in hoverbikes, an interview with James Simons, how China is attempting to genetically engineer genius and Jason’s upcoming dual-n-back experiment.

282: TZ Discussion – Socket.io to Your Brain

Justin — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:35:32 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the move from Perioscope to Meerkat, Justin’s health update and why he got rid of his treadmill, how Colby blew the curve on the math final, the field trip to Caltech and the visit from the district superintendent, BVP’s anti-portfolio, how to keep from reverting to the mean, teaching kids about money and investments, the story behind CryptoIQ, Justin’s “billion dollar” secret project, Jason’s idea of how to build the Memory Hole on top of Instapaper, Kurzweil’s cyborg predictions, the MagicLeap platform, the possibility of doing another TechZing Summit, the Outernet and whether its signal could be jammed, low-power devices running off WiFi and uBeam’s ultrasound charging technology, ideas on how to interview technical candidates, the difficulty of learning advanced mathematics on your own and whether Justin’s obsession with taking shortcuts has hamstrung him in other ways.

280: TZ Interview – Mike Taber / The Single Founder Handbook

Justin — Sat, 02 May 2015 00:28:54 +0000

Justin talks with Mike Taber author of The Single Founder Handbook

274: TZ Discussion – All Things HFT

Justin — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:03:12 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error messages to Slack and HipChat, scaling and managing servers at Digedu, Jason’s interview on Get Up and Code, why iXL didn’t work for the math team and how to setup a backup configuration using MySQL and EC2.

272: TZ Interview – Mike Walmsley / Code Avengers

Justin — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:23:26 +0000

Jason talks with Mike Walmsley, the founder and primary developer of the programming education site Code Avengers.

268: TZ Interview – Dr. Doug McGuff / Body by Science

Justin — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:56:48 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Dr. Doug McGuff about his book, Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week.

A special shoutout goes to Andy Chamberlain who emailed Justin with a heads up about Doug and the Body by Science protocol.

267: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Traction Book

Justin — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:49:07 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, about his new book Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers.

Gabriel also appears in the following TechZing shows:

263: TZ Discussion – From Zero to Hero

Justin — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:37:12 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason’s interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason’s math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got rejected by the App Store, his recent visit to the Mill Valley Code Club and what’s happening with Empath, the latest with Disco and why Justin likes SaltStack, why most people will initially mock and dismiss audacious goals, but later be inspired by them, and how a season of “Daddy Ball” has lit a fire in Colby and why that’s a good thing.

260: TZ Discussion – Going Angel

Justin — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:57:38 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason’s first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason’s new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire, some details on the TechZing Summit, whether it’s harmful to let young kids use iPads, how Jason spent his youth fighting BB-gun wars, shooting tennis ball cannons and juggling burning tennis balls, Justin and Georgie’s plans for a natural childbirth,how zapping your brain with gamma waves can induce lucid dreaming, the possibility of interviewing the founder of AirPair, why Jason wouldn’t consider himself an expert in Titanium (or just about anything else for that matter), why it’s hard to give time estimates when developing software, what makes hell banning a pain to implement, why Internet bullying is the result of people not having any “skin in the game”, the promise-payoff matrix, Uber’s $1.4B raise,how the ridiculous Bitcoin predictions of Mark T. Williams have (predictably) been proven wrong, the difficulty of decoupling emotion from investing, the untraceability of DarkCoin and ideas on how to trade all of the new cryptocurrencies, how it’s now possible to build a complete mobile platform on .NET using Xamarin and EC2, why having more developers slows down development and the latest progress on Digedu’s “No DB” implementation.

258: TZ Discussion – A Sunday Evening with Justin and Jason

Justin — Thu, 08 May 2014 00:38:51 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s night with the “Korean billionaires”, the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin’s excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he’s working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mark Cuban on high-frequency trading, Jason’s phone call with Mark Groton and the subsequent Gawker leak, Empath and Jason’s YCombinator interview, the latest evidence debunking Washington’s claim about the Syrian sarin attack, and the possibility of hosting a TechZing summit.

256: TZ Interview – Nathan Hawkins / Conjure

Justin — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:00:44 +0000

Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure, what it took to create it and how they’re bringing it to market.

254: TZ Discussion – The New Man Plan

Justin — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:08:42 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why they’re not going to change the name of the show, the unpaid bill that launched a thousand starships, the cryptography breakthrough that could make software unhackable, how GoPro is going public, Russia’s banning of Bitcoin, China’s large scale 3D printers, the breakthrough bionic hand that restores an amputee’s sense of touch, the latest on the math team, how Colby is socially distractible in the same way that Jason is, the news that Justin and Georgie are expecting, why so many projects seem to come to Jason and his upcoming meeting with a couple of billionaire investors, the math tutor who claims to be able to advance gifted kids from arithmetic through Calculus in 2 years and the guy who taught his 7-year old Calculus, the new Snowden interview that has been ignored by the major media, achieving a form of immortality with Eterni.me and whether Solyent is ever going to deliver.

246: TZ Interview – Rob Walling / Drip

Justin — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:22:59 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the rollout of his new project, Drip, as well as a few other assorted topics.

233: TZ Discussion – My Algorithm Thinks You Look Hot!

Justin — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:38:00 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the technologies (Node.js, Socket.io & Redis) that Justin and Udi are using to build digedu’s chat system, using CSS fixed positioning for popups on tablets, the influence of good looks on success, Miss Korea contestants and plastic surgery, and Jason’s idea for scoring your looks, using Google Trends to beat the market, how Wall Street is gobbling up two-thirds of your 401(k), sending smart phones to space as personal satellites and the concern about space junk, surviving in space without a space suit, how the SpaceX Grasshopper flew 250 meters straight up and then landed vertically, the Kickstarter campaign to engineer florescent plants using synthetic biology, Zach Braff’s Kickstarter campaign to finance his new film, kickstarting a Dungeons & Dragons project, the prospect of recording a world-record length podcast, the Soylent controversy, what it’s like to get online after 25 years in prison, the prisoner who impregnated four female guards and the prisoner who escaped using a picture of a master key, Jason’s thoughts on Oblivion, Just Add Content, thoughts on MicroConf, smoke and mirrors demo-ware, the Silicon Valley “miracle machine” and how Meebo is going to be shut down, AnyFu’s recent resurgence, why Justin is purchasing a walking desk, the importance of mastering the underlying dynamics of a system and the pitfalls of pattern matching on superficial attributes, the Y Combinator labor arbitrage, how Jason rolled out an alpha version of his secret project for digedu to use, and Justin’s concept of an MDP (minimum delightful project).

226: TZ Interview – Ivan Savov / The No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics

Justin — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:25 +0000

Jason speaks with Ivan Savov about his new book, The No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics.

225: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / The DuckDuckGo Step Function

Justin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:48:08 +0000

Jason speaks with show favorite, Gabriel Weinberg, about how he’s managed the growth of DuckDuckGo from 1,000 searches per month to 50 million.

223: TZ Interview – Zak Homouth / Upverter

Justin — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:06:08 +0000

Jason speaks with Zak Homouth, one of the three founders of Upverter, a web-based solution for designing, simulating and manufacturing circuit boards.

222: TZ Discussion – Getting Even on AnyFu

Justin — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:20:22 +0000

Justin and Jason talk about what’s happening with AnyFu, why Jason does a lot of stuff and how he gets it done, why Jason has soured on partnerships, how the Gmail interface kind of sucks, why Justin link spammed Jason, AdoptTogether – the Kickstarter for adoption, the Catalyst challenge / point system, methods of running Node.js in conjunction with Apache and PHP, managing long running Node.js processes using Upstart and Monit, the tradeoffs of different Linux distributions, some upcoming interviews,the latest underwhelming TL;DR service, Jason Calacanis’ Launch Ticker, the monitoring / validation service that Jason wrote for the Uber dispatching system, considerations when exercising startup options, why Jason wants the new Logitech Ultrathin iPad cover / keyboard, the research suggesting that stating your goals publicly will increase your likelihood of achieving them, and the controversy surrounding Derek Sivers’ claims on subject.

Executive Producer: Felix Leong

Thanks Felix!

217: TZ Interview – Rob Walling / HitTail, Drip and So Much More

Justin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:04:24 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about his recent success with HitTail, his new project, Drip, and other assorted startup topics.

216: TZ Discussion – Warp Speed

Justin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:54:03 +0000

Justin and Jason talk about how Jason’s mail was stolen, some of the limitations with Phone Gap, the engineering salaries of Silicon Valley startups, the ridiculous cost of housing, Jason’s idea for gamifying personal finance, incentivizing kids with cash, how NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab is working on the possibility of a warp drive, the new matter created by the Large Hadron Collider, how an advanced alien race (if they exist) might not be all that interested in communicating with us, Jason’s Freakonomics and Singularity Summit binge, the future of 3D printing, the meaning of life without money, Micho Kaku’s vision of the world in 2030 and what he envisioned a phone would do and look like, why Jason still hasn’t purchased a backup system, how Brendan Dunn is making five figures a month off a bootstrapped product, whether or not to do interviews, a new approach to recruiting AnyFu experts, how to explain functions to kids and the possibility of using a combination of both a challenge system and personal projects in Catalyst, Jason’s idea of how to explain advanced algorithms without using mathematical notation, Jason’s bizarre knee problem and finally how a provision in the House-passed NDAA bill would overturn the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibiting the U.S. government from using propaganda against it’s own citizens.

206: TZ Interview – Corey Maass / The Birdy

Justin — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:22:09 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Corey Maass, founder of personal expense tracker, The Birdy.

201: TZ Interview – Scott Young / The MIT Challenge

Justin — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:38:28 +0000

Jason speaks with Scott Young, creator of the online course Learn More, Study Less, about his effort to master the entire 4-year MIT computer science curriculum in only 12 months.

199: TZ Interview – Matin Tamizi / Balanced

Justin — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:56:07 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Matin Tamizi, founder and CEO of Balanced, about the opportunity and challenges of building a payments system for marketplaces.

197: TZ Interview – Peter Stone / Robot Soccer and Multiagent Learning

Justin — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:52:57 +0000

Jason talks with Peter Stone, director of the Learning Agents Research Group at UT Austin, whose team UT Austin Villa won both the standard platform league and the 3D simulation league of the RoboCup 2012 competition. They discuss why robot soccer is a good motivating application domain for machine learning, how the RoboCup competition got started and the kinds of teams that participate, the offshoot competition RoboCup Jr, why the machine learning technique known as reinforcement learning works so well in complex, dynamic environments, the role played by game theory in multiagents systems, Peter’s involvement in developing autonomous driving vehicles and what it’s like to run an artificial intelligence laboratory.

Additional Links:

RoboCup 2012 Semifinals [Video]

RoboCup Finals [Video]

2011 3D Simulation League Highlights [Video]

Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game [Book]

196: TZ Interview – Omri Drory / Genome Compiler

Justin — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:11:48 +0000

Jason interviews Omri Drory, founder and CEO of Genome Compiler Corporation, about how they’re aiming to build the AutoCAD of synthetic biology.

195: TZ Discussion – What’s Your Enthusiasm Half-Life?

Justin — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:41:10 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s move to Pasadena, whether you can fake being a nice guy, how John Humphrey reserved the domain AnyFoo.com and donated it to J&J, thoughts on the Pluggio pitch deck, an update on AnyFu, selling the Preezo codebase, the Udacity experiment, the apology to Elon Musk, the books A Life Decoded and Turing’s Cathedral, Justin’s tentative workout plan, the money-empathy gap, Jason’s request that Cathal Garvey write a Make style biohacking book and teach a Udacity course on synthetic biology, Jason’s idea for a TV show called Resurrection, Jason’s strategy for teaching Algebra to his his 7-year old son Colby, determining your enthusiasm half-life, planning for a wives “tell-all” interview show, the possibility of fan-funding new and canceled TV shows, and the dream of getting Elon Musk as an interview guest.

194: TZ Discussion – Respect the Buffer Zone

Justin — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:49:25 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming move back to LA, how Justin got his wife Georgie to do the voice over for some Pluggio instructional videos, why Justin is putting Pluggio on AngelList, Guyon’s recent visit to LA, why Jason is holding office hours with Pat Maddox at Coloft, why there are going to be two back-to-back interviews on synthetic biology, the upcoming interview with machine learning expert and RoboCup champion Peter Stone, Jason’s plan for teaching electronics to his son Colby and his strategy for bootstrapping a math and science academy, Google+ vs Twitter, how the EFF is taking up the patent fight with Defend Innovation, the cognitive overload of having a lot of browser tabs open, and Jason’s surprising connections to Jeff Dean, John Conway, Sarah Brown and Amy Jo Johnson.

193: TZ Interview – Cathal Garvey / Biohacking

Justin — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:51:37 +0000

Jason interviews Cathal Garvey about the exciting new field of synthetic biology, its amateur cousin DIYbio and his new startup, Glowbiotics.

Show Links:

NYT’s Article about Cathal and Biohacking

Online Gene Design
GENtle (Open Source Genetic Management Suite)

DIYbio Mailing List

DIY Biosynthesis of Insulin and Thyroxine
Hacking Your Own Fluorescent Yoghurt

191: TZ Discussion – The Space that Fills the Vacuum

Justin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:02:00 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why Iron Man is the ultimate geek super hero, the positive user feedback about Justin’s recent solo interview and Jason’s concept for a math and science academy, interfacing .NET with a Win32 DLL, the latest progress on AnyFu, Jason’s HN comment that received 75 up-votes and no replies, rbutr – an application that allows people to follow inter-website debates, Jason’s idea on how to merge spaced learning with the workgroup style learning being experimented with at MIT, the two Kickstarter projects that Justin has donated to, the latest on Pluggio, Justin’s movie marathon, why Michael Lewis believes that luck is a bigger part of the equation than most successful people like to admit, the rise of synthetic biology and the bio-hacking movement, the federal judges who spiked the Apple-Google case (calling the patent system “dysfunctional”) and ruled that indefinite detention of Americans is unconstitutional and a critique of the movie Prometheus.

190: TZ Interview – Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander / Moraware

Justin — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:00:22 +0000

Justin talks to Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander about how they bootstrapped Moraware to more than $1m yearly revenue.

188: TZ Interview – Wayne Graham / Facebook Game Development

Justin — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:00:09 +0000

Jason speaks with Wayne Graham, author of Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development about the process, technical issues and tradeoffs of developing games for the Facebook platform. Following are some links discussed in the show:

Open Source Game Engines:

CAAT: http://hyperandroid.github.com/CAAT/
Crafty: http://craftyjs.com/
LimeJS: http://www.limejs.com/
MelonJS: http://www.melonjs.org/

Commercial Game Engines:

Isogenic: http://www.isogenicengine.com/
ImpactJS: http://impactjs.com/

Comprehensive List of Game Engines:

https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines

186: TZ Discussion – Getting Big Stuff Done

Justin — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:51:24 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming move back to LA, an update on Appignite, avoiding depression while not running a $1B company, the new Pluggio UI and why some existing customers don’t like it, Company 52’s new focus, Jason’s thoughts on Steve Job’s biography, the new interview format, how Jason bought some Facebook shares, Mesh01’s upcoming design competition for a “luck surface area” t-shirt, the aborted SpaceX launch, why Steve Blank thinks the age of Silicon Valley is over, when a blow to the head creates a sudden genius, the Reproducibility Project, the genetic basis for why Jason talks so much and the progress being made on AnyFu.

185: TZ Interview – James Thomas / Headlands Technologies

Justin — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:05:14 +0000

Jason speaks with James Thomas, Director of Research for Headlands Technologies, LLC, about the business of high-frequency trading.

184: TZ Discussion – Down the Memory Hole

Justin — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:40:57 +0000

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 Guyon are probably going to kill their HackerEvents project, how some kid built a motion tracking gun-turret system, how Edwardo Saverin and Derek Sivers are renouncing their U.S. citizenships, the development of Colby’s Star Stream project, why Justin thinks Appignite should be open-sourced using a WordPress-like business model, Kevin’s Rose’s likely net worth, how the UK is going to station missiles on a residential roof for the Olympics, how the CIA’s MKUltra project likely created the Unabomber, the Pentagon’s claim that they have no photo evidence of Bin Laden’s death and the treasure hunter who says he’s located Bin Laden’s body, Richard Stallan’s Facebook notes and Jason’s memory system project, how Fringe has been renewed for a fifth and final season, playing with CircuitLab, Jason’s idea for a Facebook game that uses the game design of Scrabble but applied to electronics and why future interviews will most likely be conducted by either Justin or Jason alone instead of both of them at the same time.

183: TZ Interview – Jason Cohen / WP Engine

Justin — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:07:15 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Jason Cohen about his latest startup, WP Engine.

182: TZ Interview – Matt Konda / Application Security

Justin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:32:25 +0000

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.

179: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Blowing Up DuckDuckGo

Justin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:08:53 +0000

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.

177: TZ Interview – Dan Southworth / Divergence

Justin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:27:44 +0000

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.

175: TZ Interview – William Saito

Justin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:21:09 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to William Saito, author of “An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur“.

172: TZ Interview – Baron Schwartz / Cutting Edge MySQL

Justin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:16:19 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect at Percona and lead author of the O’Reilly book, High Performance MySQL.

171: TZ Discussion – Interview with the Unicorn

Justin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how Justin’s apartment almost burned down and how he sold his house in the UK, the television shows Fringe, Prophets of Science Fiction, Bloomberg Game Changers and the movie Limitless, the progress being made on AnyFu and the challenge of recruiting well-known experts, listener questions, the story of what happend to Jason’s movie idea, the possibility of recurring donations and winning the iTunes review war with Startups for the Rest of Us, effective criticism, Alex MacCaw’s new Ace framework (think Sinatra for Node.js), insight from Uber’s most successful driver, the risk of premature generalization, how SmartGit makes Git easy and why research on the H5N1 virus has been temporarily halted.

170: TZ Interview – Paul Paetz / Innovative Disruption

Justin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Paul Paetz CEO of Innovative Disruption and curator of Innovative Disruption Daily.

169: TZ Interview – Alex MacCaw

Justin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:17:57 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Spine.js and a bunch of other cool stuff.

168: TZ Interview – Patrick Collison / Stripe

Justin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:11:43 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Patrick Collison, co-founder of the online payment processing startup, Stripe.

166: TZ Interview – Anthony Goldbloom & Jeremy Howard / Kaggle

Justin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:03:14 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, co-founders of Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions.

165: TZ Interview – Rob Walling / HitTail

Justin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:00:07 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the acquisition and release of his new site HitTail.

164: TZ Discussion – War, the Price of Oil and You

Justin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:38:47 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s recent post about converting his site from PayPal to Stripe, Jason’s idea for a mathematical equation describing the tyranny of choice, the latest on Pluggio, AnyFu and Appignite, why Jason believes war with Iran is likely and how the price of oil will skyrocket if it happens, the story of how Jason’s attempt to sell his house before the market crashed in 2007, 3D printing, RepRap and MakerBot, Colby’s awesome new RC helicopter, the DC taxi commissioner who’s trying to stop Uber, what kind of jobs belong to the 1%, Jason’s idea for crowd-sourcing the identification of logical fallacies in news columns and opinion pieces, whether journalists should be truth vigilantes, how Jason and Guyon built a profiler for Node.js, NASA’s discovery that there are 1,500 earth-sized planets within 50 light-years of earth, upcoming interviews and Jason’s idea for creating a synthetic university education.

155: TZ Interview – Mathew Klein / Collective2

Justin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:59:50 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Mathew Klein, founder of trading systems community Collective2 and author of the novels Con Ed and Switchback, about his experiences in the Dotcom crash, researching algorithmic trading systems, bootstrapping a web startup, and balancing his life as an entrepreneur and writer.

153: TZ Interview – Joanna Wiebe / CopyHackers

Justin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:33:33 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Joanna Wiebe author of CopyHackers, the definitive how-to guide for copywriting for startups!

151: TZ Interview – Chon Tang / Inside the Black Box of Algorithmic Trading

Justin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:43:12 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Chon Tang about his journey through MIT, the Dot-com bubble and angel investing to how he ultimately became a successful, independent algorithmic trader. Due to Jason’s background in the field, this episode digs deep into the details of algorithmic trading to discuss everything from the development, testing and optimization of trading models to trading software, execution gateways, clearing firms, leverage and risk management.

147: TZ Interview – Stavros Korokithakis / Historious

Justin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:53:01 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Stavros Korokithakis, founder of bookmarking service Historious, about how he bootstrapped a simple side project into a money generating startup while running a freelance consultancy.

143: TZ Discussion – What It Takes to Be Entry Level Rich

Justin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:56:23 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Scotty Jackson, the magical genius illustrator, why Justin is impressed by the Gooveshark UI, Jason’s frustration with the design process, what it takes to be entry level rich, more on the downgrading of US debt, the ethical implications of Justin automating his Twitter feed, the Bloomberg Risk Takers profile of Elon Musk, an update on the Pluggio SEO strategy and affiliate marketing campaign, how markets are efficient if and only if P = NP, how the San Francisco police asked wireless providers to turn off their signals to prevent a protest, possible causes for the London riots and who should be held accountable, former Clinton and Bush counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke’s accustation airing on ABC news about a CIA cover-up of 9/11, how Apple is stepping up to defend iOS devs against patent troll Lodsys, why Jason thinks losing weight is like doing a startup, adding TameJS to CoffeeScript, SafeCast, Jason’s interview about high-frequency trading and the prospect of open-sourcing some Uber code.

141: TZ Interview – Guyon Roche / Jason’s Partner in Crime

Justin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:58:24 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Jason’s partner in Appignite, Guyon Roche, about how they began working together and the advantages of pair programming, Guyon’s take on Appignite and AnyFu, why design can be important for startups, what percent of Twitter and Facebook accounts are real, an investment manager’s take on the top 1%, the most likely way to get rich, the reason for AnyFu’s high-end pricing policy, the potential impact of S&P’s downgrading of US debt, Rob Walling’s advice to bootstrap as a partnership rather than as a LLC, Jason’s idea on using resources like OpenCourseware and Tutorspree as an alternative to traditional education, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, the status of Justin’s juice diet and an update on Pluggio’s growth.

133: TZ Interview – Erica Douglas / Whoosh Traffic

Justin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:30:01 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Erica Douglas, founder of Whoosh Traffic, about how she built and sold her web hosting business for $1.1 million at the of age 26, why and how SEO works despite what you may have heard to the contrary and what her rules are for success in business.

131: TZ Interview – Guy Nirpaz / Totango

Justin — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:47:00 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Guy Nirpaz, CEO and co-founder of Totango, an analytics SAAS offering that provides a deeper understanding of customer interactions. They discuss how they validated the idea and got started, how they provide value and where they’re headed in the future.

129: TZ Interview – James Altucher / Almost Everything You Ever Believed is a Total Scam

Justin — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:03:55 +0000

Entrepreneur, investor and writer, James Altucher, is back for more and this time to talk about why you shouldn’t go to college, own a house, buy stocks or follow the news. He also talks about his new book, How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive, and how it’s easier now than ever to be the master of your own destiny as long as you’re willing to own it.

126: TZ Interview – Keith Posehn / Zorz

Justin — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:20:13 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Keith Posehn, founder of Zorz, a performance marketing firm based out of San Diego, about how and why affiliate marketing can work for startups, his criteria for selecting clients and why he’s taken on Pluggio and why he’s launching a portfolio of startups through his mobile/social app think-tank AppZorz.

124: TZ Interview – Leslie Kean / UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record

Justin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:15:55 +0000

Jason interviews Leslie Kean, investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record, about her ten year effort to collect, validate and present the most credible evidence of the UFO phenomenon.

122: TZ Interview – Ruben Gamez / Bidsketch

Justin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:55:15 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Ruben Gamez, solo founder of Bidsketch (proposal software), about the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned on his path to building a successful bootstrapped web application.

120: TZ Interview – Lucas Carlson / PHP Fog

Justin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:43:53 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Lucas Carlson about how a Hacker News post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog.

118: TZ Interview – Kevin O’Connor / FindTheBest

Justin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:00:48 +0000

Justin and Jason interview founder and former CEO of DoubleClick, Kevin O’Connor, about how he’s applying the lessons he learned as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor to his latest venture FindTheBest.

116: TZ Interview – Michael Sliwinsk / Nozbe

Justin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:00:21 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe – a web and mobile productivity application, about how he was able to bootstrap a “scratch your own itch” side project into a successful startup that employs a dozen people and services tens of thousands of paying customers.

114: TZ Breaking News – Jay Roberts / Understanding Japan’s Nuclear Crisis

Justin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:47:28 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Jason’s older brother Jay, a nuclear engineer in an previous lifetime, about the situation with Japan’s nuclear reactors, his experience with Japanese culture (his wife is Japanese and he spends half his time in Japan), his thoughts on Drupal and open source software, and why his social media startup is targeting the .gov market.

113: TZ Interview – Jeff Atwood / Stack Exchange

Justin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:41:41 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, about how he got started as a coder and his passion for programming and mentoring, how he and Joel Spolsky came up with the idea for Stack Overflow, his belief in free software and the Open ID initiative, the process of raising venture capital for Stack Exchange and his views of entrepreneurship, why he and Joel stopped doing the Stack Overflow podcast and whether they might start up again, and the hardest step when scaling a web app.

110: TZ Interview – James Altucher / An Unlikely Story

Justin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:34:29 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest James Altucher about his surprising experiences as a programmer, author, journalist, entrepreneur, trader, financial pundit, venture capitalist, angel investor for Migliori Crypto Games and blogger.

108: TZ Interview – Kyle Bragger / Forrst

Justin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:22:05 +0000

Justin and Jason talk to Kyle Bragger, founder of the developer and design community Forrst, about what sparked the idea and how he launched it as a side project, how he selected the technology stack and how it’s evolved, how they’ve dealt with scaling and security, his thoughts on coding frameworks and development methodologies, why and how they created a user-linked karma system and his vision for Forrst’s future growth as an angel funded business.

104: TZ Interview – Andrew Warner / Mixergy

Justin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:27:12 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Andrew Warner, host of the entrepreneur interview show Mixergy, about his experience with his first company, why he started his podcast, what he’s learned along the way and what his plans are for the future.

102: TZ Interview – Pioneer One / The No Budget TV Series

Justin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:45:09 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with the creators of the serial drama series Pioneer One, Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith, about how they were able to raise $6,000 in donations on Kickstarter to shoot a full-length pilot episode that was downloaded over a millions times on BitTorrent and won best drama of the 2010 New York Television Festival.

101: TZ Discussion – Right Voice, Wrong Face

Justin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:44:54 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss life with kids, the Calacanis interview, the mismatch between Jason’s voice and face, the status of Appignite and the inherit complexity of the problem, how Justin increased Pluggio’s customer conversion rates and why his localization effort was a waste of time, hypothese driven development, the top ten mistakes in behavior change, the lessons learned from TechCrunch’s bad review of MinuteBox, the story of how Jason sold his 300 ZX, how Reddit grew 230% in 2010, the lessons learned from Quora, seed stage valuations, Gabriel Wienberg‘s latest micro opportunity and startup advice from Tim Ferris.

100: TZ Interview – Jason Calacanis / The Godfather

Justin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:55 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest Jason Calacanis about his surprising relationship to TechZing, the This Week In web TV network and his unfortunate fallout with Leo Laporte, how he’s iterated and pivoted with Mahalo, the Jason Nation email list and why he stopped blogging, the LAUNCH Conference, the Open Angel Forum, Weblogs, Inc., delegating and growing companies, doing a startup while raising a family, the Beta Cast, martial arts, fat blogging and about a million other things.

98: TZ Interview – Lance Jones / Conversion Optimization

Justin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:05:38 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with conversion expert Lance Jones about the three fundamental questions that need to be asked to optimize conversion and the tools required to answer those questions.

96: TZ Interview – Sean K. Murphy / Startup Strategy

Justin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:00:09 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Sean K. Murphy, founder of SKMurphy, Inc, a Silicon Valley strategy consultancy for B2B software startups, about how tech entrepreneurship has evolved over the past thirty years, the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, the analytical framework he uses to understand and advise startups, the thinkers that have most influencing his understanding of the startup process, his criticisms of the product/market fit concept, his thoughts on business plans, why he started Bootstrappers Breakfast and his thoughts on how Jason should proceed with AppIgnite.

94: TZ Interview – Amy Hoy / How to Build a Product Empire

Justin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:10 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Amy Hoy, founder of Freckle, publisher of the Javascript Performance Rocks! eBook, and creator of the 30×500 Product Launch online startup course, about how she was able to free herself from the shackles of full-time employment and escape the stress of the freelancing hamster wheel by developing her own online product empire.

92: TZ Interview – Ilya Lichtenstein / insight.io

Justin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:27:29 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Internet marketing expert and founder of insight.io Ilya Lichtenstein about how to find the best sources of paid traffic, the benefits of niche media buys, keyword and demographic targeting on Facebook, competitor bidding and re-targeting, optimizing the funnel, the importance of Analytics and number crunching, A/B and multivariate testing and what he learned by helping 150 startups with their marketing.

90: TZ Panel – Samuel Clay & Amir Salihefendic

Justin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:55:00 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Samuel Clay, developer of NewsBlur, and Amir Salihefendic, developer of Wedoist, Todist and Plurk, about how they came up with their product ideas, what technologies they used, how they designed the UIs, how they get press and attract customers, their take on competitors and the reasons behind their entrepreneurial endeavors.

89: TZ Interview – David Cancel / Performable

Justin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:00:37 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with guest David Cancel, founder and CEO of web analytics startup Performable, about the value of advanced analytics and the importance of testing assumptions, how they adjusted their pricing structure to find product market fit, the strategies they used to find their first customers and how they developed long-term relationships with them, how they launched without a product and why he loves building something out of nothing.

87: TZ Interview – Luke Wroblewski / The User Interface Is The Product

Justin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:01:12 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with UI expert Luke Wroblewski about the evolving field of user interface design, why sign up forms must die, the challenges and advantages of designing for mobile devices, the essentials of good interface design and why the future is moving beyond web forms.

84: TZ Interview – Phil Aman / Renaissance Research Group

Justin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:19:27 +0000

Justin and Jason, along with guest co-host Phil Aman, turned what was intended to be a normal discussion show into a full-length story telling of Jason and Phil’s first startup – Renaissance Research Group, LLC.

83: TZ Interview – Jay Scheevel / Geological Challenges

Justin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:25:41 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with veteran geologist Jay Scheevel about subduction zones, super quakes, tsunamis, peak oil, rare earth elements, mining helium-3 on the moon and thinking beyond the planet earth.

82: TZ Interview – Patrick Foley

Justin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:11:52 +0000

Justin and Jason interview guest Patrick Foley, host of the Startup Success Podcast, about his background as a software developer and his love of startups, why and how he got started as a podcaster, his role as a Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist, Jason Cohen’s new startup WP Engine, the benefits of Azure as a scalable web platform and the power of the story in conveying ideas and understanding.

79: TZ Interview – Patrick McKenzie / The Long Tail of Optimization

Justin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:00:55 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Patrick McKenzie, founder and developer of Bingo Card Creator, about how he grew a hacked together software project into a successful SaaS business through the expert application of website metrics and optimization.

76: TZ Interview – Thomas Thurston / Modeling Disruption

Justin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:00:28 +0000

Justin and Jason interview Thomas Thurston of Growth Science International, LLC about his “disruptive innovation” model for predicting whether a startup will succeed or fail.

TechZing 66 – Jessica Mah & The Y Combinator Experience

Justin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:25 +0000

Bitprofit enthusiasts Justin and Jason interview Jessica Mah (CEO and co-founder of InDinero) about her recent Y-Combinator experience and how she was able to raise over a million in seed round funding from a group of top tier angel investors.