1071. A Day in the Life of a Home Security Expert
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
David Selinger was an early employee at Amazon, working directly under Jeff Bezos. He led the R&D arm of Amazon's data-mining and personalization team. He co-founded Redfin (now a multi-billion-dollar real estate company) and founded Rich Relevance, a company that offers personalized shopping experiences for large retail brands, including Macy's, Barneys New York, Office Depot and others. He is now inventing the next BIG thing in home security.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:17.0 | Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:26.6 | On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look in what it's really like to do what they do. |
| 0:39.7 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, David Salinger, and our topic, The Day in the Life, |
| 0:46.3 | what's it really like to be a home security expert? Welcome, David. Hey, Don, glad to be here. Thanks for |
| 0:52.9 | having me. It is our pleasure. David, are you using your talents doing work that you love? Don, I love that question. It's actually particularly poignant at this point in my career because I'm going to use a superlative here. I honestly don't feel like I could be doing that any more than I am right now. I absolutely love what I'm doing right now. |
| 1:13.3 | David, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 1:14.4 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:15.5 | All right. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, you have an amazing story. |
| 1:17.9 | We want to hear all of it. |
| 1:23.6 | David Sellinger was an early employee at Amazon working directly under Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:31.0 | He led the R&D arm of Amazon's data mining and personalization team. He co-founded Redfin, now a multi-billion dollar company, and founded Rich Relevance, a company that offers personalized |
| 1:36.9 | shopping experiences for large retail brands, including Macy's, Barneys of New York, Office Depot, |
| 1:44.0 | and others. |
| 1:44.9 | David is now inventing the next big thing in home security. |
| 1:49.1 | So, David, before we get into the backstory and talk about what it's like to be a home security expert, |
| 1:54.4 | take just a couple of minutes quickly and just tell us the projects you're working on right this minute, |
| 1:58.1 | and then we'll dive into the whole history. |
| 2:00.5 | Sure. In terms of the projects I'm working on right now, you know, as you mentioned, |
| 2:05.5 | Deep Sentinel is a physical security company. We do home security and we do business security. And so |
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