Brennan's Conversations

[5] Saurav Pahadia (& Will Hoppin)

February 18, 2021 Brennan Colberg Season 1 Episode 5
Brennan's Conversations
[5] Saurav Pahadia (& Will Hoppin)
Show Notes

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Things mentioned:

  1. FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
  2. Future Engineers Camp, a startup Saurav made https://futureengineerscamp.com
  3. the iPad Pro, which I used for high school & sold many of https://amzn.to/3diIt3A
  4. Teacherly, another startup Saurav made https://teacher.ly
  5. Stripe, a fantastic payments API https://stripe.com
  6. personal.website, a side project of mine https://personal.website
  7. Mystery Books, a product Saurav built
  8. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie https://amzn.to/3bdRckV
  9. Madrona Venture Labs, where we both worked https://www.madronavl.com
  10. AI2 Incubator, where Saurav now works https://www.ai2incubator.com
  11. UW Seattle, where we both went to school https://uw.edu
  12. Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
  13. Edyfi, the community house we live in https://edyfi.co
  14. multi.vote, a ranked-choice voting system I built https://multi.vote
  15. Tesla Today, a Tesla-related news aggregator I revamped https://teslatoday.com
  16. "The Art of Negotiation" by Michael Wheeler https://amzn.to/3bfAq4W
  17. WEEKDAYS, where I'm winding down a job https://joinweekdays.com
  18. Synthesis, where I'm winding up a job https://synthesis.is
  19. Pay 4 Hate, a potential project for inoculating against rejection (note: we didn't actually end up building this, it IS a bad idea upon sober reflection) https://pay4hate.com
  20. Product Hunt, a place to launch projects https://www.producthunt.com
  21. Google Domains, my preferred domain registrar https://domains.google.com
  22. Mechanical Turk, an API for repetitive human work https://www.mturk.com
  23. Samson's post about the "sync gap" https://www.samsonzhang.com/2021/01/13/the-sync-gap-a-framework-for-good-conversation-writing-learning-and-all-other-creative-dialogues-internal-and-external.html