Startups, AI, and Nectir with Jordan Long

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Bill Kennedy

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5 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Jordan Long, co-founder and CTO of Nectir. They discuss Jordan's journey from high school in Hawaii to college at UCSB, his early interests in music and technology, and the challenges he faced in finding his path. Jordan shares his experiences with entrepreneurship, including his initial idea for a rideshare platform and the eventual creation of Nectir, a platform designed to connect students in the same classes. The conversation highlights the importa...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Art Labs podcast.
0:20.0	Our special guest today is Mr. Jordan Long.
0:24.5	Jordan, dude, I can't believe we finally got you on this show, man.
0:28.1	What's going on, dude?
0:29.8	Thanks, Bill.
0:30.5	No, I appreciate you taking the time.
0:32.9	All right, Jordan.
0:33.7	For the few people out there who don't know who you are,
0:36.6	give everybody the two-minute
0:38.1	spiel on Jordan Long and what he's doing today. Okay, yeah, my name is Jordan. I'm the co-founder
0:44.7	and CTO of a company called Nectar. It's a company I started with my co-founder of Kavita
0:50.2	when I was about 19 at UC Santa Barbara. We built a platform that allowed students to connect with each other in the same class.
1:00.0	Started as this kind of chat tool and we grew it throughout college. And then during COVID, it became very popular.
1:09.0	And that's kind of where we got our first break.
1:11.6	We had, you know, 10,000 students sign up at once.
1:14.4	And it was a crazy time.
1:15.9	And that's where we also raised our first round of funding.
1:18.5	And so, don't go too far.
1:20.0	Don't go.
1:20.4	This shows about putting you in a time machine, Jordan.
1:23.0	So don't go.
1:23.8	Oh, okay.
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