This is the season finale for This Startup is being Recorded. Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Season 2!Agenda:None! This was unplanned! But then in the middle of the wedding we got an urgent email about the Series A!Takeaways:Happy, joy, celebration!!
Agenda:Stand up - some exciting and some disturbing newsTakeaways:Eric to add one more egg to the digital easter egg huntSet up a Rube Goldberg machine / human mouse trap in the officeKate and Thea to have a discussion, NOT as a part of SYT, about Kate’s choicesKate to do her daily exercises to remind herself that SYT ... more
Agenda:Final update on the camera replacement project (to remove the WeWatch malware)Introduction of new intern, Melanie Hubbard!Takeaways:Everyone review results of Melanie’s background check and vote on if we should offer her a position to stayMatt follow through on idea of how to connect Melanie and JohnKate to reme... more
Agenda:Executive Stand up!Takeaways:Reach out to Lifetime about a movie deal related to the Product Manager / Developer GDPR Love StoryCreate a fake Twitter account for an African dictator and use it to convince John to stop illegal logging and perhaps start a revolutionCreate new landing page to take money and data fr... more
Agenda:Recap of what’s been going on at SXSWTakeaways:Thea to do some social monitoring to see how beholden SYT will have to be to John’s promises (like carbon absorbing cushions, selling carbon credits, and having whole workforce - including drivers - work from home 50% of the time)Reach out to DJ Khalid to propose a ... more
Agenda:Executive StandupTakeaways:No one eat seafood! Except the office cat, they’re a contractor, so it’s OKEveryone create a top 12 list of people they care about and would like the cameras of their devices replaceInvestigate if we can geofence the new augmented reality experience to prevent people from putting couch... more
Agenda:Melvin is here to discuss WeWatch, the software company he runs. WeWatch builds an exclusive meeting recording software. SYT has been testing WeWatch with a free trial the last week, and Melvin wants to come in for feedback.Takeaways:Matt to replace all the cameras for all devices the employees, their friends, t... more
Agenda:John dictated that to solve the Creative and Tech team conflict, Thea and Matt should do a “Freaky Friday” (idea came from The Hard Thing about Hard Things) and switch placesTakeaways:Thea and Matt can, shockingly, switch back 2.5 days ahead of scheduleMatt to work on getting new iPads for the Creative teamSomeo... more
Agenda:We’re ready to reveal the new company name!Also, Executive StandupTakeaways: Kate to keep wearing away at Francis’s fear of robotsTake away the pavlovian shock keyboards from the Support teamEric to create final report on covert supply chain QA testCreate a decriminalized typography zone for Tech and Creative to... more
Agenda:A user finally showed up to our weekly user interview session! Zach Lambic from Al Dente, WyomingTakeaways:Kate to figure out if the server room’s sprinklers are going, hope the company isn’t destroyed, and hope she doesn’t have to pull Matt out of his therapy sessionAdd “Wresting with Dog” as a human impact co... more
Agenda: Review pitches for branded content from Matt Matthews and Matt Matthews of Big Matt’s ContentTakeaways:Reach out to Matt and Matt, by letter, with our decisionMatt and Matt are going to meet with their lawyers… as alwaysWhoever sees John first (or ever again) tell them hi from everyoneMatt and Matt Matthews wer... more
Agenda: Meta (Facebook) has sent over some terms for an agreement to buy the Meta Market name. We ran out of legal hours this month, so get to do the review ourselves.Takeaways:Thea and Matt to work together to tame the negative energy leaking out of the server roomKate to make some red lines with her red pensUpdates t... more
Agenda:Executive Stand upTakeaways:Pull all the embroidered couches and disposable couches - NOWContact Zola about pausing partnership temporarilySupport doesn’t get to handle account deletion requests for a little whileThea will be in Des Moines for the rest of the weekKate to make executive decision on the Dessert Ma... more
Agenda:John called this meeting an hour ago and said there were two important people to meet. They have a pitch to make the company better… somehow?Takeaways:Everyone send feedback to Kate on Mr. Mister Vooo and Frederick Lamar. She’ll add it to her positives and negatives notes and send that to John.Update the “prohib... more
If you're interested in the visuals for this episode, check them out on our Twitter @StartupRecordedAgenda:Review proposal from Creative for new names - start saying goodbye to Meta Market!Takeaways:Consider the name ideas… must decide on something soon.Reconsider partnerships with dating appsKate to read all the updat... more
If you're interested in the visuals for this episode, check them out on our Twitter @StartupRecordedAgenda:Review proposal from Creative for new names - start saying goodbye to Meta Market!Takeaways:Consider the name ideas… must decide on something soon.Reconsider partnerships with dating appsKate to read all the updat... more
Agenda:Clean up odds and ends from 2021Takeaways:Matt to have a gentle 1:1 with RachelMatt going to move his Peloton and get a telehealth visit and some EKGsComplete contracting regarding NCIS cameo
Agenda:Emergency meeting (again)! Taxes are due we need our employer ID number from IowaTakeaways:Kate to complete taxesMatt taking a Lyft ASAP to the airportEveryone delete the medical records from their phoneThea to feed the office catSomeone to re-register Meta Market in Iowa
Agenda:Share feelings - not about OKRs or goals - share your true feelingsTakeaways:Eric to lock down the website so Kate can’t change it anymoreKate to coordinate Zoom interview with up to 40 intern candidatesThea to decide whose made it on her best friend listStore Thea’s holiday couches in John’s office
Agenda:Emergency! Email from Facebook/Meta’s legal counsel! Will explain more in meeting!Takeaways:No one disturb Creative team for the next week, no matter what noises you hear from behind the privacy curtain. Eric to send everyone the video of John getting stuck in a couch, just for funKate to work with Phil to pull ... more
Agenda:Prep for screaming room training with Lindsay, who is here from BhutanTakeaways:Eric to make extra carpet square for JohnKate to share with Lindsay template for how to have 30 people share one toiletEveryone to send out the experience from the warm up (WITHOUT specific details) to their teams to encourage partic... more
Agenda:Executive Standup Takeaways:Matt and Chelsea to follow-up about the Des Moines servers… which are somehow still onCalathea to reach out to her Russian study abroad friends(?) about if they know a Soviet handler named ParkovApprove the small grade explosives from Chelsea (once she submits her invoices!)Kate to no... more
Agenda:Executive Team Building exercise (to help everyone get to know Matt a little better! Plus team building is FUN!), go through this quiz together: https://www.buzzfeed.com/joannaborns/which-season-actually-matches-your-personalityTakeaways:Find ways to get Calathea’s answers to the quiz questions (likely by changi... more
Agenda:Executive Standup Screaming Room trainingDiscussion on new benefits to offerTakeaways:Eric and Matt to review archeology/topography/illuminated, interactable manuscript of the code base to see how it affects the product roadmapCalathea to follow up with Lindsay about visiting from Bhutan to do a Screaming Room t... more
Agenda:Dig into Series A GoalTakeaways:Re-evaluate data center strategyEncourage fans to play Fortnite with their Bugsby skins and take the high ground (literally)Matt to give Kate some USB sticks to take to the investors houses when she babysitsCalathea and Matt to meet offline about a Bugsby NFTCalathea to work on th... more