Ring the Bell?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sarah, Felix and Mihir discuss startups that piqued their interest. Bet there are some names you have not heard of? Who will go public first? Who is doomed to fail? Also: Mihir’s CRY for help.
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| 0:45.8 | Hello, everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm Felix. I'm me here. And I'm Sarah from Bloomberg. |
| 0:51.9 | Hey, Sarah. I don't know if you guys caught this, but right before you all came in, the sound |
| 0:56.8 | engineer, Peter Linane and I were playing name that tune. Oh, okay. And let me guess it was |
| 1:02.9 | tunes from the 60s or 70s. You got it. I went around a little bit. I found a sweet |
| 1:08.1 | song. I played the first note of Angie by the Rolling Stones. And he knew the first note. And he |
| 1:13.8 | got it. That's an easy one. Oh my god. Anyway, name that tune is a great game. But with the sound |
| 1:20.3 | engineer, like Peter, it's really fun. It's really. So we brought just one topic today. We will |
| 1:27.2 | talk about startups. I'm so excited to hear. And in particular, ones that we kind of think of |
| 1:32.0 | as being really interesting and fun all across the spectrum. Where do you find out about startups, |
| 1:36.8 | Felix? TechCrunch is one of my sources where I often find an interesting angle and interesting |
| 1:44.7 | company that I hadn't heard about. Interesting. So I look a little bit at CrunchBase. Yeah. |
| 1:50.7 | And then I also ask around. So I have friends in the Boston area who's sort of in the scene, |
| 1:56.5 | quote, I'm doing the air quotes, my fingers, I'm sorry. And I get recommendations from them. |
| 2:01.5 | And then universities are great incubators of startups. So one of the startups I have actually |
| 2:06.7 | has a history with the Harvard I lab. One of the ideas I stumbled upon, but I'm not going to |
| 2:12.1 | be discussing today is very expensive salt. I was like, who thought this was a good idea, |
| 2:17.1 | but it apparently is working. So you never know. You never know. Yeah, you never know. All right, |
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