35 Burst results for "First Product"
Mark Levin
New York Post: Belk Selling Transgender Pride Shirts for Toddlers
"Marketing people HR people other types of executives are pushing this stuff and I think the CEO or others are going what the hell did we just do of some of the CEOs are in on it show support with the kids pride graphic t -shirt our toddler and UT shirt is sort of adorable for everyday wear Belk's description for the shirt stated while description the of the shirt said it was meant for boys ages 4 to 7 it was available in sizes as small as 2t toddler another pro LGBTQ shirt you realize how small this community is and how ubiquitous it is at the same another pro LGBTQ shirt for boys that are still currently on Belk's website doesn't have any words but features various ice cream confections bearing the colors the lesbian flag the transgender flag the gay pride flag the bisexual flag and a milkshake with the letter Q for queer boy I'm so it out I of don't even know what flags were talking about both shirts on Belk's website were sold via however instant message the person clicks on several the items an error page will appear saying Belk no longer carries this item instant message did not respond to Fox News digital's request for comment Belk posts boasts a pride section on its website that features an array of LGBTQ clothing and products some geared toward children as young as four but upon clicking many of the items an error page appears saying Belk no longer carries this item it's unfriggin believable I'm not done I just pulled some of these today
AP News Radio
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
"The debt ceiling and budget deal worked out between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden has advanced to the full House, where a vote is expected Wednesday. I'm Ben Thomas with a look at its progress. The House rules committee voted 7 to 6 to advance the bill, chairman Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican calling it a product of compromise. And reflects the realities of a divided government. We shouldn't allow that to overshadow what this bill accomplishes. It would restrict spending for the next two years while also suspending the nation's debt limit during that time, and the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it reduces deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, but South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman also a member of the freedom caucus was disappointed. We had a real bill that was going to make a difference. We did in the original bill. This being watered down is completely takes the teeth out of it. And I see why the Democrats vote for it. I see it now. He and Texas congressman chip Roy, who earlier in the day, said not one Republican should vote for this deal. Join Democrats in opposing the bill's advance. Ranking Democrat Jim mcgovern of Massachusetts accusing the GOP of weaponizing the debt ceiling, saying it's a precedent that will forever haunt the nation. One party can use the full faith and credit of the United States as a hostage to pass their widely unpopular ideas. Adding, someday, hopefully not in my lifetime, but someday there will be a Republican president. And you will remember this moment because what you are trying to do is get things enacted that you could not get done through regular order. Ben Thomas, Washington
Mark Levin
Women Have the Buying & Boycott Power Against Target
"And I want you to understand why target decided to have an emergency meeting It wasn't because they thought they got it wrong It wasn't because they're going to stop doing not just a month of gay pride but basically two months right Because it's not even gay Pride Month yet and they've already got their massive square footage of gay pride propaganda for your family to indoctrinate your kids with out there We're talking probably hundreds and hundreds of thousands of square feet is what they have dedicated to gay Pride Month at target stores It's not about selling products It's about indoctrinating your children It's about turning your children against your beliefs I post this up on Instagram If you want to see it by the way I put a ton of what target was selling on Instagram You can follow me Ben Ferguson podcast there but I said men did our part with Bud Light We made it socially unacceptable for in man culture to drink woke beer The target battle will only be one with strong moms standing up for their kids And that's the truth because the majority of people that go to target are not men It's women Women did you know this And we had this debate the other day and there was a million statistics back it up But did you know that women are actually the number one spenders in families Makes sense They're buying they have more buying power than the men do Yes men will buy big things sure We'll buy a car Right We'll do things like that But women are the predominant spenders of the dollars that come into a family household I'm not criticizing women for that either I want to make that clear but women traditionally especially when they have kids the ones are spending the predominant amount of money that comes in the house Meaning women have far more buying power Or that also translates into boycotting power than any man does
Bitcoin Audible
The Basics of Key Management
"We haven't done a Basics episode in a while. I've had a couple of people ask me some questions that made me realize something that I was a little... that we haven't come back to with the Basics is just kind of the really simple, really practical, what the hell do I do with my keys? So we went into an entire episode on what our keys are and hardware, wallets, and all of that good stuff. And I will tell you straight off the bat, you need a hardware wallet if you have any meaningful savings. If you're just tinkering, that's fine. Don't give yourself a homework assignment and, you know, have to invest all this money and stuff into it if you're just playing around. But it's very easy to get sucked in and it's very easy for playing around to become a meaningful amount of money in Bitcoin. In fact, a good example actually was I was playing around with the Bitkit wallet, which is one that I'm a big fan of and I'm really looking forward to its future. And Synonym and John Carvalho and their team over there have built a really amazing and really intuitive product. But I was just testing a bunch of stuff out. So when I moved some Bitcoin to it, it was always intended to just be kind of a throwaway wallet. And I actually at some point took a screenshot of my backup seed and put it in the Discord chat with everyone in Synonym because we were we were trying to work something out. I can't remember what it was, some weird little quirk with the interface or whether it was showing addresses or something like that. I don't remember. It wasn't that big of a deal. But because I was thinking of the wallet so cheaply as just like throwaway, I did that. But what's funny is I, you know, was testing all out. So I added a bunch of contacts and, you know, I started making messages with people and, you know, all these things. And I started trying out a bunch of different widgets. And it got to the point where I'd kind of forgotten that I had done that. And then I just moved a little bit of Bitcoin to move a little bit more Bitcoin to it and eventually ended up with like eight hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin on it. And my seed is sitting in a screenshot in a Discord room that I don't know if 30 people or I have no idea how many people are in that Discord chat could see and just and so many multiple people may have just out of trying to help me put it in their wallets. So I was just totally exposed. I was just like putting cash in other people's pockets. Nobody stole it from me or anything. And I just woke up one morning and it hit me and I was like, oh my God, I'm an idiot. And I withdrew it back to my nunchuck. But just a easy little story to explain that you need to be careful with your keys and you need to have basic practice on how you're going to back things up. You need to know how you're going to be treating your wallet going
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Sam Altman's Crypto Project Worldcoin Raises $115M
"We love talking about WorldCoin. It's really surging into the headlines in recent weeks, largely around the hype and interest relating to artificial intelligence, AI. Now, word of this raise had been leaked a little bit. According to sources, this is going to be in the works and enough. Today, they announced that they've raised $115 million in a funding round led by Blockchain Capital and involving A16Z, Bain, Capital Crypto and others. Let's talk about WorldCoin. I think this is less a bet on the value of another coin and more a bet on the importance of systems that may counteract the rise of AI. That's very much a big part of what is being announced here by Blockchain Capital in a post written by Spencer Bogart. He talks about this proof of personhood concept as being the real secret sauce behind this project as the AI rises up. I'm going to toss this one straight to Jen for her initial thoughts. WorldCoin certainly been in the news quite a bit of late. What do you make of its most recent back end? $115 million. This is crazy. I feel like we haven't spoken about a raise this big. In at least a year, maybe we have all the days just kind of blend together for me. But Zach, you're right. I think about two weeks ago, we spoke about this new product that they launched that offered up a solution for authenticating humans in the age of AI through this biometric retina scanning orb. I think it's really interesting how they've been able to pull their narrative together. Now they're offering a solution to an issue that we've been discussing as AI accelerates faster and faster. They also have this crypto wallet that's part of their product that's supposed to be this really stripped down, much simpler way to hold your coins and store your assets. I think that they've developed a really interesting narrative, especially given what's going on in the news right now with wallets and AI. They have some big backers here. They have A16Z. I think I saw Bank Capital there. I think that they probably were able to craft a really compelling story, get that in front of VCs and raise this money. I think it's a strong and good bet for VCs who are waiting out the bear
AP News Radio
Companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put
"Global companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put more than a year after many companies left Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, something became clear, leaving Russia was not as simple as it might have seen, increasingly, Russia has put hurdles in the way of companies that want out, requiring approval by a government commission and imposing painful discounts and taxes on prices. Feeling the push and pull between western sanctions and outrage public opinion on one side and Russia's efforts to discourage and penalize departures on the other, some companies are staying puts. Meanwhile, Russian consumers are not feeling a big difference, as many companies that have left, are taken over by Russian owners, providing almost identical products. I'm Karen Chammas
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Josh and Jesse Berger Talk All Things PKT
"These two gentlemen that are here today have been fighting to get on there and get some visibility for a year now. I met you both gentlemen last year walking around. And I have with me Josh Berger and Jesse Berger. The Berger Brothers. The Berger Brothers. Is there another one? There is a third Berger. There's a third Berger. I saw him on the emails. Who's that one? He's the younger Berger Brother. You don't take him with you? He's got a kid, so we got to, you know, he needs a babysit, you know. Got to babysit. That's funny. We need someone to keep the train on the tracks while we're out here in the trenches hustling and spreading the gospel of packet. That's it. That's what we're here for today is talk about packet and it's spelled PKT. That's correct. But it was interesting is last year I ran into you. We were talking over at a lounge and it was so exciting because at Consensus of 2022 had like 20 ,000 people. It was just amazing to be able to run into everyone. And there's so many people here today. We have more room here to mingle and walk around, but you've come such a long way in a year with this product, with this amazing, what would you call it? A portal Wi -Fi. How are you packaging packet? Yeah, so it's a mesh Wi -Fi technology and there's really two key parts to this. There's the baseline protocol, the blockchain, which is called packet and it's an ecosystem fully decentralized. There's no foundation. There's no company. There's no investors. It's like the true decentralized type protocol, similar to Bitcoin. It's code on GitHub. Anybody could download it for free and make essentially money off of your internet. And then within that ecosystem, a company that Josh and I and Jeremy founded, as well as our other co -founder, Caleb James Delisle, who's one of the original protocol creators and lead dev, started PacketPal. And PacketPal, the whole premise was building software and hardware to make it really easy for people to participate in the packet ecosystem.
AP News Radio
China defends ban on US chipmaker Micron, accuses Washington of 'economic coercion'
"China's defended its ban on products from U.S. memory chip maker Micron Technology in some computer systems after Washington expressed concern. The dispute adds to strains over technology and security a China foreign ministry spokesperson saying the security review of micron products was conducted in accordance with the law, adding the products have unspecified security risks but gave no details. That came after Washington, Japan and the Netherlands blocked Chinese access to technology to make advanced processor chips on security grounds at a time when the ruling Communist Party's threatening to attack Taiwan and is more assertive towards his other Asian neighbors. I'm Charles De Ledesma
CoinDesk Podcast Network
FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for the Exchange
"It wouldn't be a Taco Tuesday without referencing some insanity regarding FTX. FTX's CEO's legal billings continue to hint at 2 .0 and now we've got something from the New York Times and I've actually got a hot take about this. Oh, I get to do the hot take first? Okay. So my hot take is that I actually think, and again, you guys are not financial guys, I think that the reboot of FTX is going to actually be a good thing. FTX really had a lot of great products and services that were available. However, they had absolute trash management. And I think if a mature responsible adult can actually take the money and be transparent, not use customer funds for weird things, then I think that the platform does have some sort of chance to do well. That sounds like creditor talk. It does not sound like it. No, I'm actually, I am an FTX US creditor, but I'm being serious. They really had great products and services. And one thing that Sam did well was he was able to communicate to his audience and pull or integrate things that they wanted, which was good. However, they just were scammers behind the scenes. So it sucks. So I don't know, maybe there will be some sort of good that comes out of this. Either way, I'm probably not going to touch it. And I'm not going to tell my audience about it. Did the things work though, Wendy? I mean, we don't have FTX here in Canada, but I heard they didn't really work all that well. They did. They did. Okay. A lot of users really like the interface. Like the UI on FTX was like pretty slick, et cetera. I don't think it's really going to happen. I mean, I think he's exploring all avenues, right? Because JJ Ray, the third, his mandate is to give as much money back to creditors as possible. And if this is a possibility for doing so, then sure, put some billable hours on there and indicate that you're at least thinking about it. Whether or not this will actually happen, I guess I'm a little bit less optimistic on this ever coming to pass, but this is the man's job. He's out there to make sure that people can get their money back to the best of his ability. And I think the fact that he's considering this is interesting. Maybe it's a bit little outside the box thinking, but bringing this back in some form may ultimately bring revenue in the door that could make creditors whole. So credit's in for thinking it, but I don't, I don't see it happening.
The Dan Bongino Show
Target Expects $500 Million More in Losses Due to Rampant Theft
"But target already has a range of its own financial problems and they really they're not in any position to take on a Bud Light style boycott right now So a lot of bad decision making going on here but here's what CNBC reported this past week This is from last week Wednesday Target expects organized retail crime fueled losses to jump by $500 million this year Target expects people to steal nearly a half $1 billion in merchandise this year from their store More than they were already stealing Targets at Wednesday the organized retail crime will fuel $500 million more in stolen and lost merchandise this year Compared with a year ago targets inventory lost called shrink if you've ever worked in retail you're familiar with this phrase They say it in all the trainings We need to minimize shrink Although target target is now officially selling products to assist with shrinkage Target's inventory loss called shrink totaled about $763 million last fiscal year Based on calculations from the company's financial filings with the anticipated increase shrink that is stuff that's stolen This year would surpass one $1 billion Target is staring at a $1 billion in stolen merchandise from their stores right now In the Biden economy
The Dan Bongino Show
Target Partners With Satanist Brand to Create Items for ‘PRIDE’ Merch
"Target the big retailer partnered with a satanist to create a couple of items for the pride collection Is it an amazing by the way the bigotry that's going on here So they've got an entire section of the store that's cast in rainbow colors that they say is for Pride Month The rainbow famously a symbol of God's promise not the flood the earth again in the wake of the flood And now being used to advance the financial interests of satanists How about that Target has been selling products made by the Satan brand Abraham including a messenger bag that said we belong everywhere across trans flag colors and planets a tote bag with the message two queer for here beneath a UFO and a cure transphobia not trans people sweatshirt In other words abandoned gender confused people Don't help them Allow them to descend and to destroy themselves And give them an assist will you That's what the sweatshirt's message is So that's what target has been selling And here's what the Instagram of ab says I imagine what it would be like for a younger version of myself to see something more specific more tailor made than a lackluster rainbow flag I wanted to create a range that would embrace younger me and tell him that who he is is more than okay That being trans special and wonderful and that the closet is not made for him to thrive in That's what it says according to a prey lens Instagram post announcing the collaboration with target At pralines owner is a self described gay trans man based in London What is a gay trans man I'm pretty sure that's a straight woman A gay trans man The brand sells shirts pins and stickers with the design of a pastel goat head and the message Satan respects pronouns Quote get ready for this I can't even believe I'm reading these words Satan loves you and respects who you are
AP News Radio
UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time
"A UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time. UPS shipped 24 million packages on an average day about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to pitney bowes, UPS says they deliver the equivalent of about 6% of the nation's gross domestic product. That makes major supply chain disruptions all but certain if its union strikes, the teamsters which represent about 350,000 UPS workers have said they'll walk off the job if they don't get a new contract, the current one expires July 31st. The last time UPS workers went on strike was more than two decades ago. I'm Julie Walker.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Tornado Cash Attacker Submits Proposal to Undo Attack
"Kind of got an odd one to start the day off with Wendy O, what's going on with tornado cash? This one's kind of crazy. So apparently, yesterday, there was an attacker that took over tornado cashed out with vote fraud. The token apparently dumped 40%, but the attacker offered to undo the attack, which is all very interesting considering what's happened with tornado cash. So the latest update, the attacker submitted a proposal that would undo the changes to the Dow if the proposal passes the malicious code that the attacker integrated into the protocol will be removed and the governance of tornado caches down will go back to token holders, voting closes May 26th and apparently torn was up 10% on this news. It was really bizarre that this happened on a Sunday, but I feel like a lot of the crypto news is starting to come out on Sundays from what we've seen this last year. Will you're a little bit more technical than I am. Do you want to talk about this a bit? I mean, it kind of seems like I should put my tinfoil crown on. I don't know though. Anything with tornado cash, you definitely should. An interesting problem for tornado cash started going back two or three years to their torn token, which they launched to kind of be like all the other products out there to have a Dow to be a DeFi protocol that has some sort of governance scheme, it was a very hot topic. Also give some liquidity for early people who invested in tournament cash protocol and wanted to get some money for what they built. Unfortunately, for a product for their cash, a token really didn't make sense because of the privacy implications. And now we're seeing even further issues where it seems the governance wasn't set up correctly. There were some bugs involved with it. And someone was able to exploit the underlying code to mint themselves a bunch of new tokens and then take over the entire governance scheme. They essentially meant to themselves so many tokens that the only vote that mattered was their votes. Now we're seeing something that I don't think many people thought would occur and that is that the person now in control of governance might undo everything they did. And just sort of show that this was a white hack or maybe a gray hack, a torn token has been down on the news, but it has been back up since by about 10% since the news about the possible reconfiguration and governance has been going through.
AP News Radio
4th death, more vision loss cases linked to tainted eyedrops
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports another death linked to eye drops tainted with a drug resistant bacteria. Four people have died, 81 people have been infected and 14 people have lost their vision. Cases have been reported in 18 states. The bacteria driving at pseudomonas aeruginosa is resistant to standard antibiotics. CDC investigators say most of the patients had used certain brands of eye drops and products from Ezra care and delson farma were recalled in February. After the recall, health inspectors visited the plant in India that made the eye drops and found problems with how the drops were made and tested, including inadequate sterility measures. The CDC also said four people needed surgery to remove an eyeball due to the infections.
AP News Radio
Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus as fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis continues
"Plans for a new Disney campus in Florida are off the table. I'm Lisa dwyer. The Walt Disney Company says it's scrapping plans to build a new campus in Central Florida. The company had planned to relocate about 2000 employees from Southern California to Florida to work in digital technology, finance, and product development. Disney's announcement follows a year of attacks from Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the legislature, Disney filed a First Amendment lawsuit against desantis and other officials last month. Disney had planned to build the campus about 20 miles from the giant Walt Disney World theme park resort, but a company official says in a memo to employees that new leadership and changing business conditions prompted Disney to abandon those plans, I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Russia's threat to exit Ukraine grain deal adds risk to global food security
"The United Nations is racing to extend a deal that allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger. The breakthrough accord, the UN and turkey brokered with the warring sides last summer, came with a separate agreement to ease shipments of Russian food and fertilizer, the Moscow insists hasn't been applied Russia's set a Thursday deadline for its concerns to be ironed out, or its bowing out such brinkmanship isn't new earlier this year, Russia had unilaterally decided to renew the deal for just 60 days instead of the 120 days agreed upon, experts warn a failure to extend the grain initiative could hurt countries that rely on Ukrainian wheat and barley and other affordable food products, especially as drought takes a toll. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
Ethereum Daily
Ledger Receives Scrutiny Over Recovery Product
"Hardware wallet manufacturer ledger introduced ledger recover in ID based private key recovery service that backs up a seed phrase among custodians, according to the company ledger recover works by duplicating a pre bip 39 version of a user's private key encrypting it and dividing it into three shorts. The shorts are then distributed among three custodians, including coin cover ledger and an undisclosed provider, only two of the three shards are needed to reconstruct the private key. Users must submit identity documents and pay a 9 9 9 monthly subscription fee to sign up for the service. They can then request recovery using their identity, the service is initially available on ledger X wallets, ledger recover has received community backlash over concerns of a back door. The service is also believed to be vulnerable to collusion and identity fraud, while leisure recover is optional, it reveals that firmware can extract a private key from a ledger device, ledger previously stated that private keys never leave the secure element chip.
Unchained
Aragon DAO Community On High Alert Following Coordinated Attack
"Start getting into some news this week. It's been a relatively chill week, but it being crypto, there's always some weird thing to talk about. So the weird thing to talk about this week is Aragon. So for those of you who don't know, Aragon, super OG project, Aragon is basically like a Dow operating system is the way they describe it. They were very, very early in the formation of Dao is going to before 2020 and all the down mania kicked off. So these are like super OG die hard believers. They did an ICO way back in the day and they have this token called ANT, which is kind of been sitting around, owns a big pile, and it was a big treasury of Bitcoin and ether and a bunch of other stuff. Today, that treasury is worth about a 176 million. The token itself, NT, which is supposed to give you a claim on the rights of the treasury and everything within it, because it's supposed to be a doubt, because the point, that token on a fully diluted basis is only worth a 150 million compared to the 176 that's in the treasury. So a lot of people have been very disappointed with Aragon, Aragon very famously is kind of been sitting on their hands sort of waiting for the world to come around to their view of how dows ought to work. And some people got frustrated, including some token holders, namely arca. So arca, they're like a fund, I don't know exactly what I think they're like New York and LA or something. They basically started instigating publicly to auntie holders and say, hey, Aragon has not done a good job of sort of shipping what they were supposed to ship or really gaining market share or getting product market fit. And they have a giant treasury. So we should just have them transfer the treasury into Dow governance because apparently the treasury was managed off chain. It was not managed by the Dow directly. They were like, look, Aragon should push the treasury into full on token governance so that the ANT token holders have control over that dowel. And separately, they were pushing for buybacks to basically buy back the token using the treasury to essentially return value to token holders that they felt was not being well spent by the treasury. So that's the backdrop. That's been happening all for a while. Then a few days ago, Aragon published a statement saying that they are under attack. So what is this attack? This attack supposedly is that arca, as well as a group called the rfv raiders, were basically trying to essentially act like corporate raiders. And as activists, token holders, effectively, trying to get the anti token holders to vote to basically do a complete buyback to essentially wind down the token and unwind the treasury and give the treasury back to token holders. Essentially a liquidation more or less of the treasury.
The $100 MBA Show
"first product" Discussed on The $100 MBA Show
"It's a communicate what you actually provide is to make sure you provide enough value for people to see, okay, this product is great. A lot of people shortchange themselves and don't really spend the time to describe all the great things their product does and what it could do for them. And then they wonder why nobody's buying. They're like, hey, this is great. Why are no one's buying? Because they don't know it's great. You have to convince them it's great. You got to show them everything. You got to educate them. And this means having detailed pages on your website, having videos, having comparison charts, blog posts, case studies, people love doing your homework when they're shopping. And when you give them enough information to make a decision and choose you, you make your life easier. You make it easier for them to say, yep, this is the product I want because it got all this stuff that I'm looking for that's going to solve my problems. But if you don't have that information on your site or in your materials, they're going to go somewhere else that does provide that information. You could be doing great stuff. You could be providing a great product, but you're just not telling them about it. And the interesting thing is, is that I find that this is endless. There's so much information that you can provide. For example, I run a webinar software, I run a course platform software, and I can provide all the information on all the features and all the tools and all the things it does, but I can go deeper. How is webinar ninja? A great software for coaches, for example. That's a whole blog post in itself. Well, what about how you can use it as a consultant? How can you use it as a software company, trying to do demos? So as you can see, I'm catering my content in my information to suit the use case of a potential customer. Show value so people can say, yep, this is what I want.
The $100 MBA Show
"first product" Discussed on The $100 MBA Show
"So always based on value, always start somewhere and adjust as you go. Today's episode is sponsored by NordPass business. Whether you're a business owner, a manager, or an administrator in your team, one of the biggest headaches is managing logins and passwords across all your tools online. What about sharing or getting access to the company card? Sharing the physical card in person can take too long and be too much of a delay and sharing details over your group chat can be incredibly unsafe. Luckily, there's NordPass business. That solves all these headaches. All your account and login details sorted. Easily and securely share the company card, NordPass business does that too. Me and my team absolutely love NordPass business because it's easy to use, it's convenient, and it fits easily within what we do already in our business. When somebody gets hired, I can easily give them access, and we say goodbye to a teammate, we can revoke access. It's so good, NordPass puts their money where their mouth is.
The $100 MBA Show
"first product" Discussed on The $100 MBA Show
"And in most cases, you can actually numerate this value with some data, like a dollar amount. But in some cases, you can't do that, like a Gucci bag. Let's say I'm shopping for a Gucci handbag. It costs $700. Why $700? There's no ROI here directly, but there is an intangible ROI. How much is status and getting attention and feeling significant? Worth to people, probably more than $700. People would pay that and then some to feel special. So what companies like this due to flex their value is show people of significance. People of importance, people that you look up to have these bags. And you could be like them too, if you buy this bag. You can feel important. You can feel special. So they don't really need to have a number behind it, but they can show you the value by showing you examples. That's their case study, so to speak. So this is how you really derive and come up with a price. An I like to have the ten X rule, meaning you should provide ten X value in comparison to the price. So if a product's value is $10,000, then the price of a $1000 is probably my camp, because I want to make sure I'm giving extreme value. Overwhelming value, so it's a no brainer. So once you've kind of had an understanding of how much is this worth to people, use a ten X rule and divide it by ten, and at least it's a starting point. Now, there's a caveat to this ten X rule. You got to make sure that there's a profit margin, meaning that you are making money a healthy profit margin after your expenses. We're talking about total expenses of being able to provide this product. We're not talking per unit. We're talking about, for example, how much does it cost for me to provide the service? If it's a software to my customer, my marketing expenses, my team expenses, all that kind of stuff. I want to make sure that my expenses to deliver this product is less than how much I'm charging because I need to make a profit, of course. And when you're starting out, you should always go for a two for one profit margin at least. The best companies in the world have astronomical profit margins tend to one 20 to one, a hundred to one. But you've got to start somewhere. So at least make sure you're at a two to one ratio so that you're making twice as much as it would have cost you to provide this value. Now, when it comes to physical products, retail, it's a little bit harder to do that because your cost of reproduction of a product doesn't go down as you scale, at least not significantly. Like software or courses or media. But it's somewhere to start. And then you can start experimenting and as you increase your value, you can increase your price. Now, notice I didn't say look at your competitors, see what their price is and try to play in the same ballpark. No, this is not a good way to set your prices because your product should be different from your competitors. It should provide a different amount of value.
The $100 MBA Show
"first product" Discussed on The $100 MBA Show
"Your audience for your product for your offering. So it's going to take some changing some tweaking. So don't think that this decision is irreversible. Whatever you decide to price your product. In fact, it's just the opposite. You're going to need to change it to see what's best. The second thing I want to talk about is how people buy. At the end of the day, people buy anything, whether it's a Snickers bar or a house or a car or a vacation or a pair of shoes, they buy because the value of the product. They want it. If they perceive enough value in the product, they decide to buy. That's the end of the story. And surprisingly, price actually has very little to do with the decision to buy. A lot of people think, well, if the 6th sense of the main not buy, well, expensive compared to what? Compared to the value, the value, what they're getting out of this purchase. Well, little gain. If it's well worth it, at any price, people buy. This is why people buy Porsches. This is why people buy expensive houses. This is why people buy expensive clothing and accessories. It's because they see the value in it. So the more value you provide, the more you can demand when it comes to price. And that's something to keep in mind. Why? Because when you launch a new product, especially like a software product, it's in its first iteration. So it's going to start at a certain level of value. Now I'm not saying this is low value, it could be very good value, very high value, but it's starting somewhere. And then as you improve the product, the value is going to increase and increase increase, which means you should be increasing your pricing accordingly. This is what a lot of people forget to do is that they don't change their pricing as they increase the value of the product. So let's get into how to price that product of yours. We're going to focus on what exactly are you providing, okay? So in Brian's example, he has a software that helps you create content, media, videos, images, for social media. So basically, this is a tool that's actually doing a job for them. How much is that job worth? That's really what we're going to find out. This is what we want to find out to understand the value of this product. How much time is it saving? How much effort is it saving? What kind of results can I get through your product, meaning if in the same time I usually can produce 5 pieces of content and your software will allow me to produce 30 pieces of content in the same amount of time, what's the difference of results of having 30 pieces of content out there on social media versus 5? This is some information that you and he to provide. You've got to do that research. One, because it's a really flexes the value of your product, because really at the end of the day, that's why they're buying a product. So that they can grow their social media following so they can grow their business so they can get customers.
The $100 MBA Show
"first product" Discussed on The $100 MBA Show
"Software company I started my cofounder back in 2014, and today's episode is Q&A Wednesday on Q&A Wednesdays I answer a question from one of you. One of our listeners. If you've got a question, you want to ask, go ahead and email me over at Omar at one zero zero MBA .NET. And we're right here on Q&A Wednesdays. Today's question is from Brian and Brian asks, hey Omar, just started my startup about four months ago. I'm about to put my first product on sale ever. It's a small software product to make it easier for people to create content for social media. I have no idea how much to charge and would love your advice when it comes to pricing my first product. Would be amazing if you could just point me in the right direction. Thanks so much for everything you do with the podcast, Brian. Brian, we all have to go through this decision, right? Putting a price on our first product. And many people go about this in different ways. I'm going to share with you what I believe is the best way to price your first product as a brand as a business as an entrepreneur. The whole thing about pricing is you want to make sure you don't leave too much money on the table, meaning you're not undercharging, and of course most people are worried about overcharging, like if I asked too much for my product, it might be too expensive for people and people will decide not to buy. I want to encourage people to buy so most people lower their prices. That's not necessarily true. And in fact, it's often absolutely false. And I'll explain in today's episode. I'm going to give you some step by step strategies that you can implement to set your price, launch your product, and hopefully make some money. So let's get into it.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"first product" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"For the first time Apple CEO Tim Cook there the company's first product event of 2022 kicking off what's likely to be It's most prolific year yet for new product releases I want to break the event down with Julia forced a research and our very own Mark gurman so Mark we got an iPhone a new iPad air we got the M1 chip in more products talk to us about the most significant updates we saw today Yeah I think the two most significant product that we saw today was the new iPhone SE as well as the max studio next to your display I'll consider that one combined product flying So starting with the SE I think that's significant because I think it's going to bring over a lot of switchers to the iPhone particularly people who want to get a somewhat low priced 5G phone right I think the big news for the SE is 5G now I'm not at the school of thought that thinks 5G has really moved the needle in terms of performance but I do believe 5G has been an extremely key marketing term for Apple Samsung and other phone makers And of course the carriers for the most part So I think that is going to drive some interest Now the Mac studio and the Mac studio display I think the display at $1600 is going to do fairly well Consumers have been looking for an Apple design Apple sold display since they discontinued their own cinema displays several years ago I think about 6 years ago at this point at $1600 it's about a third of the price of their 5 to $6000 pro display XDR so I think that is going to be a very nice offering This new M1 ultra chip I think is really going to give Intel a run for its money On the mid tier sort of inching towards the high end as well on their chip lineup And I think this Mac studio is going to be low volume but it's going to be popular amongst creative types video editing photo editors engineers et cetera Julie apple's coming off a record setting holiday quarter but being thrust into several months of global economic uncertainty and its paused services in Russia cut off product sales there How do you think these updates will actually drive demand in the coming quarters in the context of what's happening on the macroeconomic level Yeah so I would echo what Mark said when we look at new when we look at so 91% of consumers in the United States and North America are already on a smartphone And the way that you grow share is by taking it from Android and our data shows that of iPhone smartphone owner purchasers in the past three months 6% came from Android devices so it looks like apple is making progress there Also when we look at households 42% own a tablet today so there's a lot of upside for Apple there And when we look at streaming TV services we show that consumers are watching upwards of four to 5 hours of streaming TV and games each day And apple's third today with Amazon being in first place So there's a lot of upside for Apple as it continues to build on its product portfolio including the services So I would echo mark's comments today And then certainly the chipsets are impressive That's always going to give them an advantage not just in putting more performance more power efficient devices into smaller and thinner packages That's always going to be a winning formula but as we look forward into future experiences having that kind of power on a device and being able to do things like computer vision and speech recognition and security facial recognition on device are all very powerful attributes of those devices So Julie are you worried about consumer demand though obviously you know we're worried about rising gas prices on top of inflation could that impact demand for these devices over the next few months So I'm not an economist So you know the answer is possibly we haven't seen a slowdown We all thought the pandemic would impact our spending That was two years ago that proved to be wrong So we'll not an economist We don't yet see that in our numbers when we look at consumers plan purchases over the next three to 6 months But certainly given what's going on in Ukraine day to day it's hard to have perfect information And Mark obviously focusing on the day to day we know that Apple pause product sales in Russia There have been calls from the Ukrainian government for Apple to cut off the App Store Are you expecting Apple to make any more aggressive moves in the region or not I mean I saw Pepsi Coca-Cola McDonald's and Starbucks today Really the levers Apple pulled in Russia are the big ones they could have done right They could have paused sales They could have removed some of the Russian news apps from external app stores outside of Russia They stopped exports into their sales channels into the country there and did some changes to maps and other services but I think pulling the App Store or disabling people have called for them to disable iPhones in Russia You know I personally think that would be a gigantic step that I don't think the company is ready to take Now at the same time they do have services like Apple music Apple TV plus books and podcasts in Russia And if they were to take those offline that would match some of the moves you're seeing from the Netflix of the world that have pulled their service temporarily in Russia What they did do earlier this week is they paused search ads which is their advertising service inside of the App.
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"Maybe their title is the same exact as your current title, and now they're a product manager. That's the person you need to talk to. And so spend a lot of time trying to identify that role model for yourself. And reach out to them. Because they're the ones that are going to be able to give you those real insights that are relevant to where you are in your journey. Hey, Diego, you have to say something, I think you have to leave in a bit. We will go ten minutes over today if people are fine because I'm seeing like a queue of three more people who won't talk. We don't respect that to Diego. I'll leave to you, say something, and then come back to Janelle next, Diego over to you. Yeah, absolutely. Well, first of all, I'm super excited to see so many people here. This is incredible. Thank you, everybody for joining us. I do have to leave, but with my shield by Felix Austin, awesome panelist. So once again, thank you, everyone. If anybody wants to connect feel free to reach out on LinkedIn to question I have guides videos everything on how to streamline all the crazy amounts of material out there. So just an image from LinkedIn or find me on my website. But thank you again my young for being such an incredible host. And yeah, I'll leave you with this awesome panel. Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Diego. We love you. We'll have you again for sure for the next one. By the way, we are not going Diego is leading. So stay tuned. Okay, I have one more thing here. I'll introduce new concepts in networking. So people we have mentors. You've heard of that term a lot. It's a very important thing. We learn from mentors. What we look for is a sponsor a sponsor is not who the one who teaches you, who actually picks you mold you and pulls you up. So if I think about me as sponsors and my wife is working out, I'm also in a video. If I think of a sponsor, I generally think of helping someone get introduction, get referrals and really go deep into helping them. Find that person for you. It's very hard to find. But the day you find it, they will pull you up. I have a friend, I don't know if it's on mine today, but he was doing operation financial operations in a company, a leader in a financial opportunity in.
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"I solve it? And so these route of offering your time and volunteer for nonprofits for startups is more about saying, I'm willing to put the effort of being the problem solver. And you already have the problem. So I'm going to work on that. It's not necessarily my project, isn't something that I came up with. It's more about I'll bring the passion and the energy and you put the problem and I'm going to get that p.m. skills through your company. Fantastic. Felix I'll come back to you in a bit. I'll first we have palace Janelle, gonna add one more, go for it. Do you love your suggestion? Because and it's not just about the problem. It's also about the resources, because one of the problems that I see a lot of people think, hey, I wrote the PRD, but I don't have an engineering team to build it. And by going with this route, you actually can leverage the resources of that company to put a proof point on your resume. And it's a win win for both of you. That's a good point. Do something show something that is real, which can be taken to the person. Nikita, I know you want to speak. I'll come to you. I want to give chance to the others who have just joined in a bid. But Diego just to finish this story. I think one piece that we all should focus on also, yeah. I mean, go talk to a person and give you motivation. Oh, how hard is it? Do you do it three times? First time you'll nail it. You become a salesman. And they should hire you. But it doesn't work. We have all tried it. And my learning there is, the reasons why I have failed so in when I have failed and why I have failed is the mapping of your strength, one understanding of what your strengths are, and it doesn't have to be engineering. It can be anything. And then mapping that to what they need at that moment. I think that's the super important part. When I was talking to a lawyer a friend of mine who was in India, she went to law school. She went to a law firm. And after that, she didn't go to a B school or anything. And she told me, how do I get into a product management? And honestly, I didn't have an answer. I just said, list what do you enjoy? What are your strengths and what do you enjoy both together? And you can go as fundamental as I enjoy traveling. That is okay..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"Has internal mobility, if your company has the opportunity, this path is usually the fastest and the cheapest. The problem here is that sometimes some of these companies don't have that internal mobility, in which case sometimes you have to go as if you're an engineer, you have to go in and as an engineer into a different company where the mobility exists. And then move that. In fact, half of the product managers in Google, they don't start out as product managers. They come into their respective areas of strength, and then they do ladder conversion. And I suspect that the case in many big companies where it took a mobility is supported. So that's one route of getting into product management. The second route is actually going and getting some education and then going through the campus interviews and whatnot to kind of get in there. So a lot of people who go to MBAs, their my recommendation is if that is the route you're going to take, then try to go for a route where there's some social cred with the program because it might help you open the doors. It might help you get those conversations and so on. The problem with this route, however, is the cost of the time. Because you have to put an investment and you have to put in time and then you're going to get those rewards. So there's the downside of that. And then the third route is actually just directly applying. This is harder. You have to pretend you have to be a lot more resilient. You have to be okay with failures. You reach out to 500 people for a referral. You get ten and those kind of things happen. The thing that can really help over here is to work on your own individual side projects. Actually, there's a fourth pill. So I'll talk about it..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"But then somehow, again, in mind, it was to build something. The point of highlight here is motivation. Fetuses motivation should pass motivation. Diego's motivation. Thomas motivation. And all of us you have a motivation. Very important to go into motivation. Now I'm going to solutions a little bit with this answer and then should I'll give it to you for some frameworks. But again, that's another point we're talking about. Motivation is equally important. I went back and I was just sitting and thinking, what's next for me? I somehow saw New York at that time. Some also California on videos and spoke to people to learn what's happening there. This is an energy there. People are building stuff. I didn't know product management yet. And I said, okay, I have to be either in Stanford or Colombia. That's it. I mean, not because they are grade schools, because New York and California. That's a period. Applied to different schools all rejects and somehow somehow the Columbia folks were going to be and said fine to just show up and we'll see what happens. I got an admin. I came to Colombia with only one goal. Let's find people who can help me build something. I didn't know what product but just build something. Is it a new event? If it's a new small product, which is just doing a form or creation to collect feedback, whatever shit it was. I didn't know it'll lead to something. I didn't lead to anything. I almost flung in my first semester and I was called by the people. It didn't say, you have to great off next time or leave the core. So it was quite hard, but again, I kept pushing. Then product management was introduced to me through four square community in New York. It was a very hard nice product. And that's where I realized this is exciting. Product management is where you can be a builder. You can work with people and build something..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"What's the deal? Yeah, I'm going to share a very different perspective because I don't have a computer science background. I didn't work as an engineer. And I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do my MBA. So let me take a step back. I work for 5 years in business intelligence consulting. I'm originally from Mexico. And in Mexico, at the time, I wasn't exactly sure how to get into big tech companies, which is something that I always always wanted to do. But there weren't exciting rules for me back then at home. So I ended up joining this startup, I consulted firm. So a lot of data, a lot of working with customers. And I started to discover the things that I really enjoyed, like working close functionally, working with customers, understanding the problems and then bring it back to the team and together to solve those problems. But I also realized that things that I didn't like, which were you finished a project? And then you turn it in and that's it. You go back to square one and you do it over and over again. I realized that if I wanted to make the next big jump, I had this very course kills on data and customers but not so much about business. And that's what led me to study my MBA. So I decided to come to the U.S. study my MBA at duke. And that's where I actually learned about product management. I didn't know about p.m. before that. So that's the big difference there. Now for everybody thinking that, well, you get an MBA and then you become a p.m.. The hard truth is that even after you're getting to an MBA, the numbers when it comes to recruitment are very scars. So my class was about 450 students, and there were only 8, ten, maybe 15 positions for p.m. out of a class of 450. It gets a little bit tricky to just saying, oh, you'll be you go to an MBA and then European, right? But what I learned there when I started to understand product management. And what are the things that I really liked? And the things that I didn't like about different roles was that the way for me to become a p.m. coming from a different country coming from consulting coming into no experience whatsoever in.
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"So having my own startup for a few years having worked in pre failed startups or semi failed startups. It was a small company. And you do everything. So you kind of pick up the skills of what are we trying to do? Is it working? Is it not working? And you unknowingly pick up a lot of skills over there. And I used to get some questions about, hey, why don't you become a product manager? And I was like, no, are you kidding me? I'm happy to answer that question. Later if somebody is interested as to why I was against it. But after being an engineer for 11 years, I went to Microsoft for an engineering interview. I was told that I would be talking to four people. Somebody my friends told me secretly if everything is going well, you'd probably have to talk about a couple more people. After my first conversation, after my two conversations, the second interviewer who was a GPM in the loop, it was the highest person on the loop. Apparently he went and added a few more folks to the loop without telling me in real time. The loop kept on going and going. And since I was thinking, oh, it's probably all good, right? I'm probably I ended up meeting the GM of Bing and that day. And I had some interesting questions. And I was just wondering, these are not coding questions. Like they asked me quoting questions in the beginning, the first three or four rounds. But after that, they were all like, you have this company and you have that company. What are you going to do? I'm like, is that really relevant to the job yet? But I kept answering. And the later on came back and said that they could give me engine and grow, but they would love for me to be a product manager. And that then they gave me a choice of two different teams that they had me talk to a few other people, but then they gave me a choice of two other teams. And I was like, my impression of product management back then was arranging meetings getting discussions and all that. And that's it. I don't really want to manage your schedules for you. And then they can have known that that's not what we mean by product management. They explain me and that's it. Well, Google has ghosted me. I had an onset with Google. And for 6 weeks, basically, no paying back from Google at that time. So I thought, maybe you know what? I flunk there. I'll go here. Maybe it will not work out. By the time Google came back to me, I was sitting in new hire orientation with a job at that didn't really know what it was all about. So that's it. So I think my summary here is serendipity and some little bit of luck played there. And initiative. And the initiative from your side to really chase and understand what it was. And then go really deep and really figured out Microsoft. No, I actually when I reflect back on this journey, I said, this is unusual. How did it actually happen?.
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"I'll just if my job is easy because I've already read and taken notes for all others. I call PMs as problem solvers. It's as simple as that. And this is why I don't personally don't believe in any domain, product managers put me anywhere I will find a solution. I might take longer in an Amazon Web service to the technicalities of it. But well, after a month, I can also become a CEO so can you so can feel that it might take more time. Anyway, so p.m.'s problem solved is my point of view. So it's about being the figure out where we can create the most impact by finding opportunities in solving them. I think we have a good sense of what p.m.'s to again summarize so we are on a level playing field like level setting the knowledge here for all of us. We are problem solvers. We identify problems, which we figure out where they could be. We bring the right team together to find the most impactful solution towards the destination. This is what VMs do. And again, reiterating. This is really what VMs do. There is no rocket science behind that. There is no science and technology behind that. It's just enablers. So I think it's worth sharing our p.m. journeys for our first 5 first year have very traditional, I would say sort of traditional p.m. jury, a different types from different angles coming into it. If someone has not started from an engineering background beyond this group, someone who has not done an MBA and is in the audience today and is a p.m., I will ask them to raise their hand and come in as we tell about our story because we do want to acknowledge those unique and very amazing stories of product managers who have come from very different route are not MBA nor engineering, because we have that here already. All right, Felix, your journey quickly left to know more about you, man. What's the journey? Yeah, so I was a software engineer for about 5 years. My the last role before I decided to switch over to the dark side..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"Giving analogies. And for me, product management is, if you were all in the middle of the ocean, the product manager has to figure out, which is the best next lighthouse to road towards and how do we get there? What kind of go do we narrate? And are we going there correctly or in the middle of it turns out that that lighthouse was actually something else. Maybe to it. So I feel that the big job of a product manager is to figure out of all the things that we could be doing for our customers. What is the right next thing to do? And then doing it right. So doing the right things and then doing it right. And then understanding the constraints and abilities of the business and strains of the skill sets that you have constraints of the time schedule, all of those things to figure out and make the best decision. And not necessarily make the decision, but to own the quality and the pace of making decisions. Because we need inputs from every single person, making sure everybody is brought to the table. Decisions and ideas come from everywhere, but as a product manager, you own the quality and face of it. Awesome. Awesome, shilpa I'll take one length from that again, extracting the summary. Find a path to a destination if lighthouses your path and your stock somewhere. I would say find a path to a destination. I love it. I'll bring people together, solve problems build new features. I'll get you in a bit. I know all this sounds abstract. But trust me, folks, this is the reality. This is exactly what p.m.'s are doing is not a rocket science. This is why this conversation is so important and interesting. You may not have done product management for a long time, but well, if you have a strong core skill set, can we use that skill set to tell a story to get the first break and then going to be doing it? Now we're going to do solutions a lot, get the get there right away..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"We are hearing these names, big names in this panel today, but they're all world for very small companies, somewhere somewhere in a history. And we totally enjoyed it and we will talk about that as well. We started somewhere that was different from where others started. And to be honest, was one topic where we all debated that I had some point of view, Diego had 7 point of view. Shell point, Felix, and there are 6 other people had a different point of view. So I think it would be a very exciting conversation. But before we get into how to get into product management, will not give you any recipe or shortcut. We'll tell you about our stories and what we think people are in the past, so you can take some learnings from their move forward. All right, first question folks. I know we talk about product management. I have encountered my wife as a lawyer. I always tell her any one can become a p.m., you know, like anyone but there is something to it. And that was the end of post today as well. To start, why don't we just give I'll do a one round of what we think do p.m. two? And it can be just two lines. We don't have to go into everything we do in our life as PMs. But what does Diego think product managers do? What the shell but what does feed this thing and we can have raising hands people, we will also pull you in. And then go into, okay, next question, jump into it, how did you enter a p.m. as a second round? So prepare for both. I'll start with Diego. What do you think VMs do? In two lines, that's a very difficult challenge my young guy. I have to say. But if I were to describe p.m. into lines, he would be we don't have to be experts in old topics, but we do have to be the glue that brings the experts together to solve problems..
The Product Podcast
"first product" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"As an existing product manager. But today we have a very special edition of the p.m. mastermind. We're going to be discussing the product manifesto and one specific question, which is how to enter your first p.m. role. We've been hosting a number of such as about the product manifesto. There's a working group of a number of phenomenal PMs working to establish core principles that undergird the p.m. work that we all do. And so this is just one session we're going to talk to you a little bit about one aspect, which is entering your first p.m. row. So I'm not going to be the host today. Actually, my aunt is going to be the host, so I just wanted to help all of you get oriented. My uncle explained the session format, a little bit more about what we're going to talk about and then he'll get us started with some questions. If you've been in our group before, you may be used to a slightly different format. So just bear with us. It's not going to be the same kind of hoping Q&A. We always do. But again, my uncle is here, excellent product leader from Facebook. So I'm going to hand it over to him and just quiet. Hello, hello everyone. Thank you so much for having me here, Felix, great to be with this amazing group. Such a large audience today. Thank you all. Thank you so much for joining. I think the second third time, maybe coming to this mastermind. Yes, second time. Second time. Oh, second time glad to be back again. All right, all right, so format for today, a pretty straightforward. We'll do a quick intro, we have an amazing panel here. I'll start with that in a bit. So the topic of today are in subtext that Felix already gave us we are working on a product manifesto, what is we all have looked at challenges the p.m.'s face or aspiring BMs face or anyone thinks about when you think about PMs? What we have done is we said, can we shorten our learning curve? Can we come up with a playbook that can help people really elevate themselves to become better PMs or enter the p.m. job, which is about an APM as a job that's about today are built organizations. So we went back and came up with the top ten questions slash challenges aspiring PMs, today's VMs or p.m. leaders have..
Kickass Boomers
"first product" Discussed on Kickass Boomers
"I have write yourself e and tipping. Split, great. Great, see, everything they have. I also have a YouTube channel. Oh, good for you. What's that called Grandma? Okay, good good. And what I have on there is something very interesting because it's a little bit difficult to run a business office. So I actually decided that I might try and use a business coach, but for you, I think that's important. I have no idea what business coach can do. So what I did is I wrote an article another article, my second article for Entrepreneur magazine and its Club Do I need a business coach? Oh, such a good question. And I interviewed 15 business coaches. Wow, I'll give people. Yeah, I need one. And what's the right fit? And finally, I actually hired one for me. Good for you. Good for you, he's getting me back home again. I could do myself, but it's much nicer to have him, help me. Absolutely. And what I did is I have fifteen interviews. They're all on my website, but they're also on the YouTube channel. I mean, who wants to see the interviews about also on Instagram and Linkedin? And my Facebook page. Oh good. Perfect. That's wonderful. So is there one last bit of advice? You'd like to leave with my Boomer Nation today? Yes I would. Okay great there's something that I have on my desk and yep. Going to read it to you, okay? This is my Aaron Hanson. And it says, what if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what? If you fly. So important when you flew you absolutely flew and you keep flying higher every day. And if I don't, it's nothing lost. I'm having the time of my life when you never know where things are going to lead, you just took that first step and then the next step and one thing led to another to another and perhaps and us baby boomers have so much to share with the world..