Blendjet’s Ryan Pamplin: “I’ll never sell out again”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Ryan Pamplin, founder of Blendjet, to talk about living the Silicon Valley dream (2:45), suffering a traumatic brain injury (6:00), post-concussive syndrome (9:30), living in purgatory (12:45), changing his priorities (15:15), not wanting to sell out again (17:30), augmented reality’s potential (19:50), switching to blenders (24:55), getting his product on Silicon Valley, the TV series (29:45), competing with McDonald’s (31:45), creating a direct-to-consumer brand online (34:45), fighting fakes (36:45), the power of Facebook (39:00), marketing to Gen Z (43:00), the shadow of Juicero (44:50), influencer marketing (47:30), manufacturing in China (51:20), his health (52:30), brain computer interfaces (55:00), and the dark side of tech (58:30).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley. Thank you for tuning in. Before we get started this week,
0:04.8	I just wanted to give you a quick heads up before we get to the show. There's a discussion on here
0:11.8	about a traumatic personal injury that some folks may find upsetting. So if you're at all squeamish,
0:20.5	maybe hit pause and then have a quick gander at the show
0:24.1	notes before proceeding. Now, let's get to it.
0:29.1	Yo, technology. What is it all about? If you create something really successful,
0:35.4	guarantee you 100% it's going to get ripped off.
0:38.5	Even if it's a very complicated product, people are going to make a bad rip off.
0:41.5	And if you're not on top of shutting them down and defending your IP, you cannot create a brand in 2020.
0:48.0	It's not possible.
0:53.8	Hello, everyone. We are back for another week. I am back from Holiday. I spent a glorious
1:02.5	week in Lake Tahoe, swimming in the lake and trying to keep my boys from throwing sand
1:10.3	in each other's eyes, which is super fun.
1:12.5	But generally, it was glorious.
1:14.1	But now we're back, and we have a really fascinating show for you this week.
1:18.4	And it is a bit of a, in a similar vein of last week's episode where we caught up,
1:22.6	you may recall, with Patty Cosgrave after his previous appearance on the program.
1:27.9	We're doing that again, though this one goes much, much further back.
1:33.6	Years, in fact, as you'll soon hear.
1:36.7	And the journey of Ryan Pamplin, who is this week's guest,
1:40.9	is packed with tons of lessons for really anyone. So Pamplin, he is the founder of a company
1:47.8	called BlendJet, which makes a portable USB chargeable blender that he has built as a really a direct
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