Painkiller Already #473

Painkiller Already

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4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 251 minutes

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In this week's PKA, we've got Co-Owner of the eSports organization NRG and Co-Owner of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, Andy Miller on the show, and he shares stories about Steve Jobs and his time as a VP over at Apple and then the guys have a deep dive into sports talk, with the hockey, lots of baseball and of course baseball. Change of pace episode!

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0:00.0	PKA473 with our guest Andy Miller. Kyle? Yeah, a couple of sponsors tonight. Blue,
0:06.9	Chiu and Postmates. We'll get to them later on the show. But, you know, I'll be just
0:10.8	can't wait. Links in description below. Andy. Andy, how are you kicking off? I know you
0:16.4	all got questions. We do, we do. Yeah. Andy is a big time businessman and this
0:20.4	captures my interest. Do you occur at Lee the co-founder of Energy Sports? Your first,
0:25.9	way as far as I know, wild success was Quattro Wireless, which you sold to Apple?
0:32.4	Yes. I actually had a business before that. That was that was pretty successful and did really well.
0:42.1	For me personally, it was like my first win as an entrepreneur. So that means that you make less money
0:48.8	because you got into it, you know, kind of like being a struggling musician and you're
0:53.2	signed your contract with the record label and you crush your first album when you make no money
0:57.2	off of it. That next contract, right? But I actually did okay, but it was a company called MQ
1:05.1	out of Boston. M. It was the worst name ever, literally. Thankfully, it wasn't like consumer facing.
1:11.0	I didn't start it. I came in and worked with my now business partner for the last million years.
1:16.7	And it was spelled lowercase M, hyphen QUBE MQ. And the idea was it was mobile messaging,
1:28.4	Mark, you got it terrible, right? Like don't ever name that company. That's confusing.
1:34.0	It's classic, but it's stuck. I didn't remember like when I URL, I can find it. So I just want to
1:41.6	catch you name, but that was a mobile messaging company. And it was text messaging, but before
1:47.6	this is like internet 1.0. So if you were on sprint and you were on Verizon, you guys wanted to
1:54.7	be buddies. You couldn't be friends. You couldn't text each other because there was no interoperability
1:59.1	back then. So we got the bright idea of connecting all the carriers together and creating short
2:05.0	codes, which text messaging, SMS, and eventually running messaging across all the major
2:11.7	carriers in North America and doing billing as well. So our first, we were a startup out of Boston.
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