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Financials: Interview with Upskill Co-Founder and CEO Brian Ballard

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Industry Focus: Financials host Jason Moser sits down with Brian Ballard, co-founder and CEO of Upskill, a company focused on building enterprise software for augmented reality devices. Tune in to learn more about what Upskill is doing and where Brian sees augmented reality taking us in the coming years!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

0:07.0

It's Monday July 15th. I'm your host Jason Moser and on today's show we bring you another installment of Between Two Fools. Brian Ballard is the co-founder and CEO

0:15.2

of Upskill, a company focused on building enterprise software for augmented reality

0:19.8

devices. I recently sat down with Brian to talk more about Uppskill and where he sees augmented reality

0:25.8

taking us in the coming years.

0:27.7

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

0:29.1

Okay Brian first things first thing's first.

0:33.0

Let's talk a little bit about what Upskill is,

0:35.0

because while it may not necessarily be a household name yet,

0:38.0

we think it will be, and we can certainly see you're on your way,

0:41.0

tell us a little bit about the company, what it is you do, and why we should be excited

0:45.4

about the company in the augmented reality space.

0:49.0

So Upps-Kill is a connected worker company.

0:51.8

What that means is we're trying to bring information, ideas, better

0:56.8

access to data all the way from your kind of industrial kind of corporate data centers all the way

1:02.2

to the people who are the front line of the workforce.

1:04.6

And we do that by not putting information like at the tip of their fingers, but into their field of view using

1:09.7

augmented reality as our primary interface.

1:13.0

Think of us as upskilling blue collar, new collar,

1:16.7

workforce roles that drive almost half of the economy.

1:22.2

And traditionally speaking the current type of

1:26.8

digital devices whether it's computers or mobile phones, laptops, whatever just have not been the

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