January 9, 2025 • 53 mins
The episode explores the nostalgic and transformative journey through the tech landscape, highlighting personal stories of resilience and growth. As hosts share tales from the past, they discuss the importance of mentorship, community, and adapting to emerging technologies while inspiring listeners to believe in themselves and seize opportunities ahead.
• Reflection on the rise and fall of tech retail giants
• Importance of self-belief and overcoming hardships
• Nurturing mentorship and community connection
• Innovations reshaping career paths in technology
• Conversations about AI and its implications on the workforce
• Encouragement to embrace one's unique journey in tech
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I.
I am your host, bobby D, andI'm here to introduce you to
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season number three of the techhustle.
If you miss season number two,if they miss season number two,
y'all need to go listen.
I promise you, and we're takingit up to another level because
we're going to be doing someaudio and video recording this
time.
See, I can see what we looklike on youtube.
Right, throw it up d, let ussee who you is, right?
All right, let's give our ourhost and co-host a quick
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introduction.
We got d hustle to my left.
What's up my man, everything'sgood.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Raymond, don't call him ray ray you good player,
wait, wait to the camera.
Give him a deuces man.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just say hi to him, right and, like I said, I'm the
host, bobby d um.
This is the tech hustle and weover here, holding it down, I'm
really trying to inspire y'allto do some great things in tech
and really just uplift ourcommunity as much as we can.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So, bobby, d d hustle .
You guys remember circuit citygrowing up?
Oh yeah, I used to be in thestore, shout out to circuit city
.
I know that all the good.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I actually had a I did in my car.
I used to do stereo systems inmy car.
Oh, I used to do stereo systems.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Okay, so that them and sound device.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh, sound device.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I forgot about sound device.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, did you have a system in your car and
everything?
Yeah, I had the system in thecar.
Yes, I had a 210 subwoofer.
Man, I'm mad tweeters and yep Idid too oh man.
Yeah, that was good old daysgoing.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I used to go into the flea market getting the system
put in.
Yeah, yeah, just the thumpinggetting all that man I was like
obsessed with that growing upokay sound advice.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I remember that yeah, circuit city um another name
for you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Remember radio shack, oh radio I think there's still
one, if I'm not mistaken, onforest and military.
I'll stay close to that theforest, I think that was close
that's gotta be close to you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, there's no way, but that was one of the last
ones that were there that'swhere I used to get all my shit.
If I needed something for my tv, oh yeah, any little weird,
quirky electronic thing youneeded, you'd go to radio shack,
for sure.
Only radio shack I know that'sstill open is in the show
stranger things, so that's theonly one that goes.
Yeah, but yeah, radio Shack.
Growing up Circuit City.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
All right, all right yeah going back old school.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So another one for you that put Radio Shack and you
know Circuit City at business.
Do you guys remember Newegg,newegg?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh yeah, the online store.
Right yeah, the online store.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's what kind of like you know started bringing
the online stuff and that's whatkind of killed Circuit City and
.
Radio Shack and all that.
So what I bring this up, allthese names, is there's a
computer store opening up inMiami.
It's called Micro Center.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Micro Center.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, they're based out of Ohio and it's supposed to
be like one of the biggestindoor computer stores in the
country.
So they're coming up here in2024.
We got to make a trip downthere.
I don't know when they'reopening up.
They're opening up this yeardown in miami.
It's going to be very oldschool, like circuit city.
Yeah, yeah, and you know, Imean, I know we got best buy,
but best buy sells electronics.
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This is like old schoolcomputer stuff where you can go
in and make your keyboards andmake your motherboards.
It's opening up down in miami.
It's going to be huge fellas,wow.
So yeah, I don't know when in2024 it's opening up this year.
So we definitely got to make atrip down there they're going to
sell everything.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They're going to sell everything.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So, yeah, this is kind of why I'm bringing this up
.
It's called micro center, so weneed to make a trip as tech
hustle go down there, take ourkids definitely, and yeah so
yeah, keep an eye on it.
Micro center, that's why I kindof wanted to bring it up.
I still miss that old schoolgoing to me too.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I missed that, you know getting the mother.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I know you can get this stuff online now and stuff,
but there's nothing like goinginto a store like picking your
parts and building it and stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was able to get introduced to Facebook, twitter,
where we met and then.
Andreessen, horowitz and thenAsana, and after getting fired
four times, I was in a point inmy life where I was like you
know what?
All the feedback I'd heard wasbasically you're too much, you
don't know.
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Like you don't like, basicallyyou're too much right, like you
don't know the rules.
And I just got so tired ofpeople like hating on me for me,
not because of my job, notbecause I was doing anything
wrong, but just because of who Iwas.
And I was like I want to workwith myself.
I think I'm great, I'm awesome,so why not do it?
And I started my company.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I big shout outs to her.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Basically what she's saying is if you fall, you can
always get up.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
And believe in yourself and love yourself
enough to to like really trustyourself that what you're
choosing and what is beingcalled to you is the right thing
.
Being called to you is theright thing Because I had no
idea how to start a company.
I just was like, okay, I guessI'm going to do this Like the
first six months I didn't havean LLC and didn't get
incorporated until then, gotmyself into a lot of debt
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because I bootstrapped and Ithought that was the only way.
And it wasn't good debt, right,it wasn't like a loan or
anything like that, it wascredit cards.
And I had never had debt.
So I was like okay, cool, butplease don't do that.
But please, whoever's listening, do not do that.
Um, and thankfully I can saynow four years later, I'm debt
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free um so my investment paidoff, hey investing in yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That that's key right there.
Appreciate you and um.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And yeah, now, in four years you know, after me I
made that decision I was able toland some pretty big clients,
um, to date we've served about 5000 people.
We've um been able to, you know, have a thousand hours of
coaching and about six milliondollars generated and new, new
offers and salary say that again.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Six say that again.
Six million dollars generatedand new, new offers and salary.
Say that again.
Six say that again six millionbig round of applause for
catalina very much, and this islike listening to your story and
understanding where you startedfrom being able to get to a
point where um otherorganizations just didn't see
your value and and then youbelieving in yourself, even
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though that first ledge didrequire you to get that.
But then afterwards, just thinkabout this impact Six million
dollars in impact and people'slives that you have directly
influenced.
Give her another round ofapplause, bring that out.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Honestly, I think, like, I think.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
This is like almost everyone, but I always used to
have like imposter syndrome.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
It was so bad, like, and I remember like I really
felt it the most when I was likeswitching from electrical
engineering to computer science,because like that's a big
change, and I was like junioryear yeah I'm like am I, am I
ready?
To make that decision, yeah andI remember like, so I joined
copath like in 2021, like 2022that was.
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The first class I took wasmobile app development and I'm
like this is fun, you know, likeI do enjoy doing this and
that's when, like that idea oflike wanting to switch from
hardware to software actuallylike came to my head and then I
started coding technicalinterviews, but I was just very
scared Am I sure I can do this?
Am I actually sure I can dothis?
And it got so bad, where Icould have a technical interview
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didn't go so well and I juststopped coding for two months,
three months straight, I justwent goodbye, closed the months,
three months straight, like.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I just wouldn't even look at it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Goodbye, close the laptop, put it in bag, goodbye,
like.
And it was really like hard tomentally get out of that space
and I think that was like mybiggest challenge is like
trusting in myself and likebelieving, like you know, like
making that change was worth it.
Like trust, because at thatpoint, like you don't know what
the end goal is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
You're still in the process, like, how do you assure
yourself that like you'remaking the right choice, how do
you assure yourself that you'rereally good at what you're doing
?
And it's so funny how, likesometimes, that imposter
syndrome used to creep up and Iwould find myself like going
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into different security.
Yeah, I just I just felt, likeyou know, in that moment, like I
really like softwareengineering, but I'm like I'm
not sure I could code let mejust try this and try that and
try this and all that kind ofstuff.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So yeah, it's yeah it's really imposter syndrome
now, um, in terms of yourjourney, um, and, and let me
know if you cool with me talkingabout where your internship is
gonna be, but go ahead and letus know where you're cool with
me talking about where yourinternship is going to be?
Oh for sure for sure but goahead and let us know where
you're going to be doing somesummer interning at in the
coming weeks coming months.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Okay, so I'm going to be in Redmond Washington with
Microsoft Woo.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Look at that.
That's what's up.
Yo, it's literally lit overthere because, um, I'm so proud
of you, I'm so happy for you tohave this opportunity.
If y'all didn't hear it, evanis going to be at microsoft and
turning this summer holding itdown for all of them honestly,
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hard work, consistency.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
You just have to practice like practice, like
practice, because I think theone thing and I think it's life
in general like nothing getshanded to anyone you have to
work hard to get it and themoment you put in that work,
you're gonna get it.
You know, you just have tobelieve in yourself yeah you
know and I always used to tellmyself you know, you have to
have faith you know, you have tobe delusional, del.
(10:04):
You know you have to bedelusional, delusional, like you
have to be delusional.
I remember, like before myMicrosoft offer came, like I was
talking to my friend and I'mlike you know, I keep seeing
like the Microsoft logoeverywhere and he's like you're
going to get used to it, you'regoing to see it posts about I
started searching about.
(10:25):
Oh, after grad I'm going to bein Seattle Just making sure that
you see yourself in thosespaces because you get to
manifest those things.
When you see it and believe it,it's going to come to pass.
Work hard and it's all going tomake sense in the end.
Honestly, that's really mybiggest advice Work hard and
you'll get it.
You'll get it.
You'll get it 100%.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Thank you so much for that well, I will tell you,
I consider myself an OG in techshout outs to the OG's out there
because when I first started intech, I was working for Xerox
she's taking it way back, wayback.
I've been doing the way backclock.
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At that time, xerox had largecopiers.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
I was there selling door-to-door when we came out
with the desktop copiers, sothat was late 70s and then I got
recruited by IBM, which was atthat time Shut up.
Yes, that was the Google of theday.
For sure, 100% yes yes, Oneyear I hired 16 people to be in
our executive developmentprogram and eight of them
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happened to be black.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
From the top business schools one from
Cornell, one from MIT, four fromWharton one from.
Uva and another one fromChicago.
That's awesome's up and mymanager told me we're sitting on
a campus of over 14,000 peopleand my manager told me I hired
too many black people.
Why, that was eight.
I call them my grade eight.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
I hired 16 people.
But that's sweet 16, but mygrade eight were the ones that
really stood out for me and whenI realized that, you know, are
they going to get the rightopportunities here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
And if not, then maybe we need to move on, yeah
for sure so.
I ended up I say I quit andstayed.
You know, in my mind I quitsaying I know that I'm not going
to be here for long, I need todo something else, yeah.
And so I ended up going to workwith a young lady who was doing
the Black MBA magazine, andthen I started my own executive
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search and consulting firmcalled PKS Executive Search.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Thank you for that poor said.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
One young lady, I was told, and this was before
the year 2000,.
And I was told that if I hiredher, she was from Duke
University had her MBA.
If I hired her and she was fromDuke University, had her MBA.
If I hired her and she didn'tdo well, that they were going to
fire me.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's what HR told me.
That's another whomp, whomp forme.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
And so I just got divorced.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I was a single mom yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
And my manager asked me do you still want to hire?
I said yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's what's up.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
And she said well then you are fooled.
I said I know she's going to dowell.
And today she's a CTO.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
If you are someone who enjoys funny pranks on
others, I have some sites foryou to fool friends, members or
coworkers.
The point is to not gooverboard like D Hustle here.
It is just to have fun, allright.
These sites are to have fun onyour friends, your family,
coworkers.
Do not go overboard like DHustle, all right.
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Especially, don't do this atyour IT guys or at work.
All right, do not do this atwork.
So full disclosure here.
The first one is it's calledUpdate Faker.
So Update Faker.
Check out this site, guys.
It's great.
Play it on your kids or yourcoworkers.
You know how someone's workingon a big, important project and
you know they got a Windowsupdate.
So go to Update Fakeraker.
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Depending on if the person hasa windows or mac os and you know
how windows updates are going,yeah, you can't mess with a
windows update.
It's so important.
The person's going to starethere and wait for that windows
update to go and it's just goingto go.
It's just going to go onforever.
So go to this website, pick yourflavor.
If they got windows 10, windows11, even if they have a Mac,
put it in F11.
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That'll make it in full screenand that Windows update will go
on forever and ever, guys.
So yes, it is pretty slick.
So there's a Mac one in there.
So it's pretty cool.
So there's another one in theretoo.
If you go on there and youselect Windows, you hit the
enter key.
It will give them the bluescreen of death.
Hit the enter key or even thespacebar key there's also.
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It will do the same thing forthe mac os as well.
So, whether they have a mac orwindows, check this out.
If you want to play a prank onyour kids or your co-workers, go
to update faker.
It's got five different flavorson there for you and have fun,
guys it's chinese company toroll out ai power sex pops.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh, we're focused on emotional connections.
How do I get one?
Of those all right, it's a bigindustry over there in china I
don't know if you guys know overthere's a big market of sex, of
going on all over there.
So basically what he's saying,mr Lee, which is the CEO of the
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company, he said the newgeneration of sex doll, powered
by AR models equipped withsensors that can react with both
movement and speech,significantly enhancing users'
experience by focusing onemotional connection rather than
the basic conversationalabilities.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Wow, that's interesting.
Yeah, ladies, step your game up.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm just saying and these are available for men and
women.
Oh, okay then Wow.
All right, so if you're looking, for a significant other and
don't want to buy dinnerinteresting or go out.
Yeah, you just bring out yourdoll him or her call her
whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Don't discriminate here.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
No, and you know, have a great time and then shut
the fuck up, go right back inthe closet and continue your
fucking day interesting bigshout outs to d hustle, trusting
uh technology.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
We was driving around the city and all of a sudden we
see this white car with allthese cameras on it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I mean, you can't miss it shout out to drag war,
for sure, right you can't missthese cars, and the thing is
cars, it wasn't just one.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It wasn't just two.
I mean, there were like crazyamount of these cars.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There's a lot of them .
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Autonomous vehicles.
Basically nobody's driving themexcept the computer and AI is
driving them.
So we was in the city and thefirst time we saw it, right, we
were all excited taking picturesand stuff like that.
And then we see another one,see another one, see another one
, see another one, and then wewere driving and then we were
like yo, I wonder if we can justjump in, you know, catch one of
these rides because it seemslike it's so accessible.
So D was like yo, just pullover and, you know, check it out
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real quick.
So I get on my phone and Ididn't even go to a website or
nothing, straight to the appstore and I looked up the
company it's waymo w-a-y-m ookay, and I'm like all right,
let me go find this.
And it said waymo car.
I installed it.
In less than 15 minutes we wereready to ride in a car, like it
was just like an uber.
Wow, perfect, like perfectexperience.
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Walk to this destination, thislocation.
It even had us take a littlescenic route through a little
park for us to go pick up thecar.
And while we were there standingthere waiting for the car, d
and I are just sitting therelike dang I can't believe about
to do this and before you knowit, the car pulls up so smooth,
just pulls right up on thecorner.
You got to press the button tounlock the doors open.
D sat in the front first, I satin the back and crazy were you
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guys scared or creeped out oranything?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm not not going to lie.
I was nervous, I was like yolisten, I don't trust nobody.
I think that's you see, bug me.
Yeah, this is not going to workvery well, I was nervous.
I was like you know what SanFrancisco is way in advance.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, it's like you live in the future, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
If people trust them it is what it is, you know, yeah
, but it was a good experience.
I felt good about it.
Would I do it again?
110, 100, um.
It's just a matter of time ofgetting over that fear and yeah,
you got it, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, now who's behind this?
Like that's a great question Iwant.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm glad you said that.
So I was telling bobby that itfelt like um, I don't know if
you ever had one of those orseen these type of race car
remote.
Uh, you're sitting down with amonitor all the way around and
you can see everything.
It's uh, oh man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I felt like somebody's at home just driving
the car around and you're donebecause freaky yeah, yeah, it's
crazy but d did say that he feltlike it was driving more safer
yeah, and not trying to driveaggressively, right yeah?
Like it was, like safety wasfirst for it like it would stop
or pause, but it also picked upspeed too yeah, when it was.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Maybe it has cameras all the way around.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's crazy it has cameras all the way around it
has something like it's spinning.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't know if it's like like some waves, that is
detecting radar type like aradar.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
But yeah, that's pretty cool, I guess.
Obviously it's a leak, it'slegal there and all that right.
Do they care, right?
That's the thing about in sanfrancisco, people ask for
forgiveness afterwards.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But I tell you, bro, there was no way that you could
miss it, because it wasdefinitely roaming around the
city and then, in terms of justexperience-wise, it was just
like catching an Uber and thecost wasn't that expensive
either.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
No, no, no, no, no.
It is like catching an Uber,but I think we were more
luxurious than everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's more like Give him a round of applause.
He's saying that the luxurystatus was a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, when people's driving an Uber, right, are
anybody taking pictures of Ubers?
No, everybody was takingpictures of us.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah, we felt like we were superstars, exactly,
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So it's more of a luxurious, like we're superstars
.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wow.
So it's like Okay, a luxuriouslike we're superstars.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, I mean I officially felt like what it
felt like or what it feels liketo be famous yes, everywhere we
stop people take out theirphones recording and.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'm like waving and everything.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And there's nobody on the driver's side.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, I mean just hearing the story, I'm just like
whoa, this is kind of freaky.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's what made it cool for me After I was scared
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I see people taking out their phones.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I feel special yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And he's sitting in the front too.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
They're recording me.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I'm recording you.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah, so that's only a WestCoast thing, because I've never
heard of that down here in theEast.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Coast, it in the East Coast.
It probably will come later on.
Yeah, it'll definitely make itsway.
I think it's ready.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I think, it's ready.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
City-wise definitely.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
It was quite interesting.
It felt as though, like I think, I was in it while it was going
on yeah.
I remember one day I hadn'tbeen to the office because I was
always working from home.
And then one day I hadn't beento the office because I was
always working from home.
Um, and then one day I wentinto the office and it felt so
dark and sad yeah, I remembermyself and some other colleague
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were just in a room like thisand then having a conversation
and went to one colleague ofours not black.
Um, it was just there and thenhe looked so sad I think he's
asian and he possibly wasworried about, like, his visa
situation and all.
Yeah, yeah, um, so it was, itwas it was extremely bad.
Um, I think there were so manyrumors or so many things and
(21:58):
some of them came out to be trueactually, um, I remember that
night where, like everybody'slaptops were just like dying in
front of their eyes yeah, um,and everybody was just typing
and saying, oh yeah, I'm outyeah, I'm out so many things
were.
It was, it was crazy.
It was like rumors of war andthen so many people getting
killed and it was.
It was just bad yeah, um, yeahum, my whole entire managerial
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chain was cut off like um, whileI was there in the first round
actually there were severalrounds after maybe even five or
six, I'm not sure, but in thefirst round I wasn't impacted.
I think the major thing thathappened was that Elon started
asking and saying I need peopleto work 80 hours every single
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week and all of that and I waslike, yeah, sure, I mean I could
do that, but then maybe it hasto be my thing, I can work on
your thing for 80 hours.
But also in the fact that, likeI don't think I saw the vision
that you see for this company,yeah even though I feel like
there are a bunch of things thatwe could do yeah um, I think
the direction in which we wereactually taking it was not some
way I saw it, and so when he putout the old label of choose yes
(23:10):
or no, I didn't click on yes, Ijust left it.
And so he told me to go and Iwas like, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, hey.
That's how it plays out, andthe part that I really feel in
terms of just you talking aboutit is the emotions associated
with it, because people justdon't know how we rode for that
blue bird it was different right.
We held it at a different levelin terms of our contributions
and also our commitment, right?
(23:37):
Somebody's asking us to do morefor something else that y'all
don't even ride like that, forit's like yo.
I don't think we can keep thatsame momentum and I definitely
want to show you respect for youknow, being one of those that
be like hey, I'm done, because alot of people, like you said,
were forced to be in thatsituation because they had visas
issues, family issues, medicalissues and stuff like that, um,
(23:57):
and and a lot of people don'tknow what that feels like to
stand for something like thatand then obviously understand
the results of it.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
so big round of applause for him to have that
experience be able to tell yourstory you're going to meet a lot
of people in life that's goingto say you know, like I'm a good
person, I do this.
Yeah, I'm a good person, I dothis.
And that's a dangerous way ofliving and a dangerous way of
(24:24):
looking at life.
I'm going to tell you why.
Right, so one of the quickestways you can lose everything is
thinking that you can earnsomebody's respect or earn
somebody's grace or whatever,whatever.
So I'll give you an examplewhat I mean.
Right, if somebody does a lotof things for you, that's cool,
does a lot of things for you,that's cool.
And you keep doing it, keepdoing it.
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So now you think that they're acertain way because of the
works that they showed you.
Now you're going to look atthis person like, oh, that's my
man, oh, that's the homie.
They looked out for me, theydid this, they did that, they
did works to show you something.
So now, once they get 100%close to you and they got 100%
(25:06):
access to things that you wouldnormally keep private or
whatever it is, they are now ina position to completely
manipulate everything.
Take everything from you andyou will be like I thought they
was.
Yeah, you never knew them, theyjust knew what to do to get to
(25:27):
you.
The thing is, your value was intheir works, but you never saw
who they was.
In the Bible it shows you thatthrough faith and grace are we
saved.
What it is is and this hit mestrong if you was to ask
somebody, how many lies have youever told in your life?
And then everybody be like,well, dang, like countless lies,
(25:51):
like you know what I'm sayingif you're looking at it across
my life.
Yeah, so do you ask them andsee if they honest with
themselves, um, is a liar a goodperson?
And then it's like you havesome people that would be like,
well, yeah, like a liar could bea good person because you did
this good thing.
Good, doing a good deed or abad deed is literally that a
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good deed or a bad deed.
But being a good person, thatmeans you have to be perfect and
there's only one that's perfectyou're not perfect so once I
realized that I wasn't a goodperson we were sinners that's
when I realized I was free,because now I don't have to
carry the burden of trying to beperfect or trying to be this
good person.
I can actually live my lifedoing the best that I can,
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knowing that the only reason I'mable to do anything is through
the grace of God.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
The story out last week where a gentleman made I
think he made like 112 fake AIbands and then he also created
bots where they just basicallywere streaming the music off of
the fake ai bands and he endedup making about 10 million
(27:08):
dollars 10 million dollars shoutout to that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So yeah, I'm just trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, shout out to him.
I was just trying to find outwhat he did illegally, but he
created the bots to boost hissales.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
He put us up on game right.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, so, but then again, I mean, don't Isn't there
like always, like you know,little thing there On certain
artists using bots and stufflike that.
You know whether it's Meg TheeStallion, or if it's Drake or
Kendrick, I mean you know.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I mean Because.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Spotify likes to crack down on that Because it is
illegal.
You're not supposed to use bots, but we know the music industry
does do that to kind of boosttheir artists up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So but I'm just trying to understand what this
gentleman did wrong um, the botsweren't real and, uh, I guess
he got caught on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
He got caught, michael smith is his name 10
million dollars in royalty fromapple music, spotify and other
podcasts are posting.
Ai shout out to him prettybrilliant idea, idea, yeah,
brilliant, great concept.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
$10 million the only difference is that he's not a
star, that's true, those bandswere not stars either.
Those bands are not stars andthey haven't seen him perform
once.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Not once, not once.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
He got caught up.
Now let's discuss this.
Was it the band's that's deathsillegal, or was it the bots?
What did he do wrong?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think it was the bots.
Yeah, me too I agree, you canmake music, everybody's making
music right now with AI andstuff like that.
But to boost up to this, becauselet's be realistic here when
you put something online, it'sall about how many people look
Facts, Correct and likes yeah,yeah, it's all about how many
people look Facts and likes yeah, yeah, in the booth.
So he had to get.
How many bots did he do?
(28:44):
He had to do Thousands,thousands of bots, maybe two
grand Two thousand bots, yeah,yeah, to boost it up.
Yeah, I think he did.
He just got caught.
Yeah, I mean, he started thisFrom when I was reading Since
2019.
Yeah, actually it's ten,000active bots I'm going to have to
laugh at that if he would have5,000, he might have been able
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to just slide through.
I might make it another year,but man, I agree with D.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think it's definitely the part where the
bots themselves are hitting andmessing with the numbers.
And then they're getting paidfor that because technically,
let's say, those bots cost him adollar.
A bot, that's $10,000, right.
But that $10,000 flipped up andmade $10 million, right.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's a good flip right there.
I think that happens toeverybody.
We got too happy.
Yeah yeah, money, happy, youknow, the year was coming in
Next year, said I need afreaking Lamborghini Next year.
After that I need a boat.
I need more, I need more views.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
All I need is more.
I ain't got caught up.
That's exactly.
That's crazy, you know.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Bots are used on A lot of different.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Platforms Right.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Whether it's Twitter or Instagram, I mean come on.
Do these people Like, reallyhave the followers?
They really have the followersthey really have.
I guess because they're notgetting monetized.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exactly, they're making money.
Exactly, it's fine, yeah, Imean, it is kind of like if
you're not getting paid for it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They don't care, okay , but if you think about, I
think YouTube has bots too,don't you?
Think so a YouTube channel with100,000 people in there, there
has to be some bots in there,right Well?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
yeah, I mean depending on how fast their
100,000 subscribers are.
So yeah.
Yeah, but yeah no, it's justcurious, interesting.
Speaker 13 (30:36):
Yeah, yeah.
And I had a dream that I wasworking for Apple.
I had a dream that I wasworking for Apple and I was
shocked because, first of all, Iwas so focused on medicine I
had never even thought abouttechnology at all, not because I
didn't think I could do it, butjust because I was like that
has nothing to do with me.
Like minding my own business,staying in my lane.
But you got a taste of that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Python.
I sure did, does your?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
mom know my mom Because?
No, my mom, because the firstthing they want to do are you
going to be a doctor, a?
Lawyer you know all that stuff,I'm telling you, I'm telling
you so for her like it's sofunny you said that.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
So three things for her.
She was like either medicine,either law, or either becoming
an engineer and obviously beingin New York, civil engineering,
architecture, is super huge.
So I was the kid that sheassigned medicine I was really
good at mathematics and scienceanyway, ie my degree, but moving
along strong.
So anyhow, yeah, went online toLinkedIn, was trying to figure
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out who I knew at the time thatI worked at Apple, and a good
friend of mine, who I justrecently graduated, worked at
the store and I was like, hey,you know, I think I want to work
here.
I actually started my journeyin retail FYI.
If you guys didn't know thatand want to like work here, yeah
, um, I actually started myjourney in retail fyi, if you
guys didn't know that.
And so she was like, hey, I cantotally uh refer you.
And literally after shereferred me, I think, a week
later I heard back from arecruiter and, um, five weeks
(31:49):
later, after five rounds ofinterviews, I got the job.
The strategy was you canmeasure success by helping
people get into tech, helpingthe individuals who never knew
that six figures was attainableand then from there seeing that
it's okay to also have work-lifebalance, yeah, yeah so that's
what it was for me.
So, yeah, took the time in May2020 was like hey, you know, hey
(32:09):
, those who are interested ingetting into tech, feel free to
you know, use my LinkedIn or mycalendar link and I'm happy to
you know, provide you with freeyou know service.
Again, I was like Lord'm justgoing to use this as a way to
serve the people.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
That's how it became what it was Big shout-outs.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
I'm just again.
Very grateful for where it hascome to be.
Thanks for the support, bobbyand the community.
From there we were able to helpabout 400 plus people get into
tech with making six-figuresalaries.
Plus, I think, totalcompensation is around $27
million to $30 million in totalcompensation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Let's take a pause right there.
Can you repeat that numberagain?
How much money have youcollectively been able to help
people get?
Speaker 13 (32:58):
Yes, so between $27 and 30 million dollars in total
compensation so salary sign-onbonuses and also stock options.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That's what's up beautiful.
That's what's up.
One of the things that we haveas a challenge as software
engineers, especially whenworking on the internet, is
raymond and d hustle may not bein my region.
They might be on the other sideof the world.
So how do I share code with you?
All is using a version controlsystem like Git, where I can
(33:30):
have a copy on my laptop, shareit to D-Hustle, d-hustle has his
copy, raymond has his copy, andthen we're working collectively
to merge our changes together.
It's definitely a way for youto manage history, like what did
Bobby change, what did D-Hustlechange but also being able to
tie that into deployment systemsso that systems and software
can automatically be updated asnew code is being merged into
(33:54):
this version control system.
Another thing that I like toalso mention about version
control systems is there is away that you can have a
centralized repository whereeverybody can fetch and get the
latest copy.
This is on something calledgithub.
Y'all heard of github before.
Right, yes, and I'm sorry tointerrupt.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Excuse my dull moment here.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Maybe you can explain no, go ahead d because so get
and github is not the same thingthat's a great question.
So so Git is the tool, githubis the platform.
Let's go.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
One of my favorite movies is Black Panther, but
maybe not for the reason thatpeople think, if you look at the
movie and think about this nexttime you look at the movie,
killmonger was physically biggerand stronger than Black Panther
.
T'challa won because helistened to the women in his
life.
Facts he had a team.
Killmonger had no team.
Black Panther had a team.
That's the difference in thestory.
He had women in his life whoadvocated for him when he
(34:52):
couldn't fight for himself.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Facts.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
And if that's not a metaphor for us as men to listen
and insight that comes fromnon-traditional sources.
I don't know what it is.
So what I say to some of theguys I mentor is listening to
your wife doesn't make you lessof a man, but not listening to
your wife can make you a lesssuccessful man.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Ooh, giving that a gem right there, For sure 100%.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
There's no one in your life besides maybe your
mama.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Say it again, because sometimes people don't listen.
Yeah, so we're running back.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
So listening to your wife doesn't make you less of a
man, but not listening to yourwife may make you a less
successful man.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
She can see some things that you can't.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
And she may have insight into things, but, like
outside of maybe your mom, whoelse is there that's as aligned
with your success as your wife?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
100% 100%, because we're moving together.
I go left, we go left.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I go right, we go right Right.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And at the end of the day, uh, mindset wise.
Uh, my wife and I honor her toto the core because, uh, I tell
a lot of people like when I walkinto a room she sees you before
I even see you type stuff rightit's just mindset wise is that
um it's, it's a collective thather and I have created, and when
we move, we move together.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
So I'll prophesy.
So leadership came to me at onepoint and said hey, marlon, we
just got access to this toolcalled opening.
I you know um early accessright and everything, and so
like, uh, they was like hey, youknow, do you think you know you
can use this tool to help uswrite grants faster?
(36:16):
On our profit side, and so,going back to that, I'm like
yeah, sure, I know I figured itout.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Having no clue what to do.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I got it.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
So I told him this is why I like actually, it's
probably like we're on this time.
We know the time when it's likelate in the year.
And so I told him I said, look,don't expect any results to
like end of the year.
I figured it out in a weekend.
Oh, that's what's up.
So essentially, man, what weended up building was one of the
first AI grant writers on topof GBT-3.
That's what's up.
And so GBT-3 had launched andeverything, and so we figured it
(36:53):
out and built some stuff aroundit.
At that time period it wasdefinitely private, it was
private beta, and yet they wasapproving you know, I don't know
a couple hundred people a month, whatever it may be.
And so at that time, opening outwas so small you can literally
like email specific engineersyeah, yeah and talk to them
(37:13):
about what you're building andwhat you're working on, what
you're trying to figure it outand everything.
And so, like the biggesttransition when we was building,
you know this AI grant writer,you know we basically you had to
like store, you know a databaseand everything.
So now it's like a vectordatabase, yeah, and so you know,
at the time, you know, I thinkI think vector database was
(37:34):
coming up, but I just wasn'tfamiliar with it.
So you had to put all yourdocuments in a JSON lines lines
file and I was like what thehell is json lines?
like I know what json is yeah Iwas like what json lines is, and
so it's so tedious andeverything, and so essentially
it's json, but everything butjust like line by line, by line,
(37:54):
by line by line yeah everything, and so it makes the embedding
process easier yeah, well, whichis the future of vector
databases?
right, yeah, yeah right and soit makes the embedding process
easier to read and everythingit's going to go through and so
so, yeah, man, so like once I,once we built in and kind of
understand, I understand thefoundations of it and how it
reads and how it understands andhow it documents you know
documents and everything likethat.
(38:15):
I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Isee what this is.
And so the day chachi to be,the day, I saw chachi um chachi
on gpt, I probably like saw,like the first description, the
first line.
I was like, oh, I know exactlywhat this is oh you peep game
quick.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I know exactly what this is.
Yeah, yeah and so.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
So from there, man, you know, I think the rest of
the world was like oh, this isinteresting, and I just had the
privilege of kind of like beinginto it and stuff already, and
and so from there, man, Istarted teaching building.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
It didn't know that.
Um, if you make music with AI,you cannot copyright it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Ooh, it's free.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
So if you make any type of music with AI, so it is
not free.
You have to make the lyrics offof your brain that is
copyrighted, so I thought thatwas interesting so explain that
a little bit more so I don'tknow if you guys remember, with
the kendrick lamar and yeah uh,drake battle.
There was a guy that went aheadand made fun of drake.
He made the song called bbldrizzy ah, yes, I remember that
(39:19):
took off.
He made that with ai so hecannot copyright that.
A bunch of people spend off ofit and made their own versions
of it yeah so apparently he canonly make money off the lyrics,
but the actual song is open toanyone, so that was interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's the thing
with ai is that they're going tobe so many new regulations and
ways that we're going to have tolearn how to develop.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
But my question is would you still listen to the
song if it's created by AI?
Yeah, I don't know.
I feel some type of way aboutthat.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
But let me ask you this Do you want to be notified
if it is, or would you just notto be notified at all?
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not checking for an.
Ai artist, I mean, I mean.
Yeah, I don't know, I feelweird about that now.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, yeah.
So Raymond Haven't gotten ontothat board yet.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Here's the thing why we we have to say Is AI
generated?
If not, so let's say, if I putout some music, and You're gonna
have a A different point ofperspective If it's me.
Or or if I tell you, hey, it'sAI.
If you say it's me, ah nah, youcan't do the crap by yourself.
Yeah, yeah, you know what I'msaying.
(40:28):
Or if it's AI, oh my god, youstill can't do the crap by
yourself.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's uh, but if I give it to you, what I've seen
is AI and you like.
Oh man, you did good yeah yeah,yeah, heads up, it's ai, and
then is your opinion gonnachange after that?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
oh, I mean, I know raymond's opinion.
Yeah, definitely, we knowraymond's opinion.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I can't.
It's ai man.
I thought he was the man.
That's not.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Let me let me give you the soon as he hears that
it's's a rap, there goes all theSoundCloud rappers I mean me.
I'm just looking forward to thequality of music is going to
take another leap, in my opinion, because of the lyrics that are
going to be generated, versuswhat we're listening to right
now, Because music right now istoo much mumble rap, like D was
(41:21):
saying, but also just too muchadult-type stuff.
They're always talking aboutsmashing and stuff like that and
I'm like yo do y'all hear whaty'all are saying?
Are these lyrics reallyconscious?
I'm hoping that AI brings backconscious rapping.
I don't know, We'll see.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
We'll see what happens.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what advice would youhave for the next generation of
you know like-minded peoplethat were at Brown or you know
in high school, interested incomputer science?
What advice would you give themin terms of getting into the?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
field now?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I feel like one big thing thatwe kind of miss with remote is
just people like relationshipslike running to bobby d at the
office, you know what I'm sayinglike yeah, I really miss that
and I would say keep in contactwith your network.
Like one thing that happenedthis year was that I was feeling
(42:20):
like I really missed mycoworkers from Twitter.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I was like.
My friend was like why don'tyou just reach out to them?
And everyone was really happyto like meet up with me or Zoom
with me.
They missed me too.
So my first advice isdefinitely keep in contact with
your network.
Just meet up with people forcoffee.
Your network is going to bereally helpful in getting you
jobs and just learning things,and also just having people to
(42:45):
give you advice is huge yeah um,I think another thing is along
with that uh, find mentors.
It's harder in the remote worldwe live in now to find mentors,
like I just met you at nesBE.
I met Chris Coco around theoffice.
I met Susan around the office.
These are just people I hadrandom encounters with, but we
(43:07):
don't have as many randomencounters now.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, yeah, so for sure.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, reach out to people, see if they'll mentor
you.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Like, don't be afraid to put yourself out there, but
mentors are really important andyeah, it's a little hard to
find them now, but they're outthere and they want a mentor
yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure,are actually working on a
project where we're buildingdata centers, or we're talking
(43:34):
about designing data centers byre-utilizing some older
buildings, because you knowthere's a lot of vacant
buildings in all of these citiesand why not convert some of
these buildings into datacenters?
And if you're not familiar withthe data center, look at the
links below.
We'll have access to that.
But these data centers are thecentralized place where we host
and put computers in there, butnot just a regular data center
(43:54):
on the edge of the internet, butlet's make it an AI edge data
center, something that wepotentially could have AI
workload running in a cityrather than running in these big
old data centers.
Or I just read an article aboutXAI having, you know this
massive computing with thousandsof GPUs.
Why not just spread them outacross the country or across the
world into smaller locations sothat people in those areas can
(44:17):
access it?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Data centers, their room or facility has to be
extremely cold.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, yeah, can access it.
Data centers, their room orfacility has to be extremely
cold.
Yeah, yeah.
So the one of the cool thingsabout um data center designs is,
um you can take advantage of,uh like isolating that cool or
cooling the whole building, andwhen you're cooling the whole
building, it's kind of soinefficient, right?
Um, and just for those that areum wondering about what a data
center is, just think of a datacenter as like a warehouse, um,
a warehouse full with computersfrom the floor to the ceiling,
(44:45):
and if you're cooling that wholebuilding, you have a lot of
space that's not being used interms of computing resources,
from the ceiling to the top ofthe rack.
But this idea is taking it intoa smaller footprint and
possibly using something calledliquid cooling.
Have you heard of liquidcooling?
Speaker 11 (45:01):
yet yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So liquid cooling is something that's getting even
more popular with AI, with thetype of chips that they're
developing, but CPU liquidcooling too, because the other
day I watched this video agaming computer remember yeah, I
was going to say that.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, I was going to say that gaming computers had
those.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Yeah, gaming computers are coming out with
liquid cooling in them, which iscrazy.
They them.
Which is crazy.
They literally have a radiator.
They literally have a, a waterline that goes directly to the
cpu and then a water line thatgoes back and, just like in a
car, it flows right through asit getting more hotter.
They had that for a whileactually some people don't trust
it yeah yeah, because any leak?
yeah, the whole thing is a wrap.
(45:35):
Yeah, well, water andelectricity don't go together,
right, or the water andelectronics in general, um, but
this idea of these data centersuh, these ai data centers are
going to be smaller, um doesrequire less amount of cooling,
less amount of space, and that'swhy this proposal is really
focusing on, you know, buildingsthat are either, you know,
vacant nobody's living in thereor using using it for business,
(45:57):
um, and just building on top ofthem like a lego set or a tetra,
tetra set of data centerresources, such as GPUs for AI.
So, yeah, if you are interestedin learning a little bit more
about this project, anddefinitely if you are an
investor or you want tocontribute either time or money
right, one of the two come andholler us here at the Tech
Hustle and we're definitelygoing to enlighten you.
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This is episode number 50 kids,50, 50.
Can you believe it?
What's up?
Raymond?
Raymond, don't call him, he's50 now, he's that old Raymond.
Don't call him Ray Ray.
What up player?
What's?
Up morning, morning, morning,my guy D hustle, what up player.
What, oh man, can you believewe got to episode 50?
(46:43):
Yes man, we've been recordingfor a minute.
What did you say?
I have a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
What's up?
We're on episode 50.
I don't know if you guys knowthis, but most podcasts fail
within the first 15 episodes.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
First 15 episodes first 15 episodes.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yes, they don't even last a year.
I just found that out a fewweeks ago that's what's up not
saying we succeeded, but we didmake it to 50, give us a big
round of applause.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Come on now.
We got to make sure we give abig, big round of applause.
So we're beating the statistics, um, and we're on episode 50.
Uh, we've been at it for atleast two years, three years now
total.
Um, I would say we start offwith twitter spaces, right, um,
and then we move to audio onlyhas it been longer than that?
Speaker 4 (47:25):
it feels like it's been it has right, it feels a
little bit longer well, we havetwo years no, I think it's three
years.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Okay, yeah, because we started off with twitter
spaces first, um, and then wedid season two, all audio, um.
So if you haven't seen seasontwo or heard of season two, it's
on spotify and all platforms.
It's audio only.
And then for season three,which, getting this to our point
now, uh, we stepped it up alittle bit and obviously turned
on the camera so you can seewhat we look like and stuff like
that.
But we got a special specialguest for us today, uh, somebody
(47:54):
that's been supporting the showsince day one, day one.
If y'all been watching our show, you know that um, we have had
a segment where we shout out oursponsors throughout the whole
show.
Um, and we have the one andonly marvelous creation.
Bring her to the stage.
Big round of applause.
Welcome to the stage.
(48:17):
Marvelous creation, aka marleneto the stage.
Marvelous creation, aka welcome.
Marlene, also known as my love.
What's up, baby?
Say hi to everybody, hello,everybody, welcome, welcome,
welcome.
And this afternoon, what we'regoing to do is have a quick
conversation with you aboutmarvelous creations and your
contributions to our community,our family and your company and
(48:40):
all the amazing things thatyou've been doing.
So give us a quick introductionyourself.
Tell us what's your name, whereyou're from and how you know
the Tech Hustle.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
So my name is Marlene from Marvelous Creation and.
I'm Bobby DFL's wife.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Shout out to that 18 years, 18 years, 18 years.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
And I'm D Hustle's sister Biggest shout out right
there.
In California I also did Cakefor Kids.
It was an organization that didcakes for foster kids in the
hospitals and I really enjoyeddoing that because the kids all
love cakes and seeing the designthat you make and they get all
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happy we're about to close itout, fellas, can y'all believe
episode 50?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
man.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I can't wait for next year.
2025 is right around the corner.
I hope you all are getting yourplans lined up.
I hope y'all are reflecting on2024 and all the great things
you do.
And one thing that I want tosay real quick if you bring the
music down real quick is I wantto give a few big thank yous.
First of all, let's get a biground of applause for my guy
Raymond don't call him Ray Ray.
(49:54):
Thank you so much for holdingit down, my brother, bringing
your nuggets, being availableand you know, and talking to the
camera and saying hi to thepeople and always being yourself
.
So we very much appreciate it.
And don't forget my right-handman, my guy D-Hustle.
I'm holding it down, my guyD-Hustle holding it down, as
always, all of 2024, travelingthe country with me, visiting
(50:19):
and featuring on Backstage withBobby D, also holding it down
here at the podcast, and all theoperation stuff that we got
going on here at the Tech Hustle.
I appreciate you, my brother.
Thank you so much for all thatyou do, my man.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
And a big round of applause back to you again.
Also, there's two more namesthat I want to mention real
quick Jasmine, jasmine Wright,jasmine.
Jasmine writes big shout out tojasmine right as man.
Uh, she's holding it down onour newsletter side of the table
.
Uh, we are coming out with ournext final episode of our
newsletter for this year, so Iwant y'all to make sure y'all
tune in and check it out.
And then I want to give a bigshout outs to our video guy.
What's his name again?
(50:52):
Um, raham, raham, my guy overin nigeria, overseas, my man.
Um very much appreciate all theproduction that you're doing.
We really do appreciate all thenew pop-ups and things that we
have going on in our video andif you don't see the like and
subscribe button, press it now.
Thank you so much for yourcontinued support here at the
Tech Hustle and if I forgot yourname and if I missed you,
(51:12):
definitely much respect to youand thank you all so much for
holding us down for this wholeyear.
We're going to keep it goingfor 2025.
Any last words, Raymond.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Everybody stay safe.
Have a good year.
See you in 2025.
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
My guy D Hustle what's upplayer.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
First of all, I want to thank everybody.
I want to thank my man, Raymond.
Don't call me Ray Ray, Eventhough in his discourse it says
Ray Ray.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm confusing.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
I also want to thank him also for uh losing his bet
that he has to give me some uhlunch.
He hasn't facts.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Facts, because he got put down in the d league.
Not even he's still playing,he's down to the d league also
want to give him a big shout outalso.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
He's got a lot of great nuggets.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youguys are not put onto the sit.
He's got a lot of good stuff.
Uh, in case he don't know, hegot got burner phones.
So, uh, last but not least, Iwas special Thank out to my man,
Um, Bobby D.
Without him, uh, my, my one ofmy right hand man's uh, without
(52:12):
him, I wouldn't know where,where I'd be right about now.
Um, thank you for giving me theopportunity and having me here
and being on the podcast beingpart of his love and his journey
.
And also happy holidays from us, from the Tech Hustle.
Much love to you guys and seeyou next year.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Roger that.
Turn that music back up.
Play up.
All right, y'all.
Thank y'all so much for tuningin.
We're at episode 50.
We're at the end of the year.
This is our last recording.
We still got some more stuffcoming out, so don't think that
we ain't going to be publishing.
But I want to say once again,thank y'all for being a part of
this community.
A big shout out to our almost3,000 followers on YouTube.
Give them a big round ofapplause for our followers on
(52:53):
YouTube.
Spotify.
We're running up numbers.
Our newsletter is running upnumbers.
Our community members.
Give a big shout out to ourcommunity members for holding us
down.
We got a new year coming upwith new ideas and different
things that we'll be working on.
If you're not already following, subscribe, tell your friends
about us, tell your communityabout us, because we're really
out here changing minds,changing lives.
And, yeah, we'll see y'all nextyear, 2025.
(53:14):
Peace.
I.
I am your host, bobby D, andI'm here to introduce you to
(00:51):
season number three of the techhustle.
If you miss season number two,if they miss season number two,
y'all need to go listen.
I promise you, and we're takingit up to another level because
we're going to be doing someaudio and video recording this
time.
See, I can see what we looklike on youtube.
Right, throw it up d, let ussee who you is, right?
All right, let's give our ourhost and co-host a quick
(01:13):
introduction.
We got d hustle to my left.
What's up my man, everything'sgood.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Raymond, don't call him ray ray you good player,
wait, wait to the camera.
Give him a deuces man.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Just say hi to him, right and, like I said, I'm the
host, bobby d um.
This is the tech hustle and weover here, holding it down, I'm
really trying to inspire y'allto do some great things in tech
and really just uplift ourcommunity as much as we can.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So, bobby, d d hustle .
You guys remember circuit citygrowing up?
Oh yeah, I used to be in thestore, shout out to circuit city
.
I know that all the good.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I actually had a I did in my car.
I used to do stereo systems inmy car.
Oh, I used to do stereo systems.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Okay, so that them and sound device.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh, sound device.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I forgot about sound device.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, did you have a system in your car and
everything?
Yeah, I had the system in thecar.
Yes, I had a 210 subwoofer.
Man, I'm mad tweeters and yep Idid too oh man.
Yeah, that was good old daysgoing.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I used to go into the flea market getting the system
put in.
Yeah, yeah, just the thumpinggetting all that man I was like
obsessed with that growing upokay sound advice.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I remember that yeah, circuit city um another name
for you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Remember radio shack, oh radio I think there's still
one, if I'm not mistaken, onforest and military.
I'll stay close to that theforest, I think that was close
that's gotta be close to you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, there's no way, but that was one of the last
ones that were there that'swhere I used to get all my shit.
If I needed something for my tv, oh yeah, any little weird,
quirky electronic thing youneeded, you'd go to radio shack,
for sure.
Only radio shack I know that'sstill open is in the show
stranger things, so that's theonly one that goes.
Yeah, but yeah, radio Shack.
Growing up Circuit City.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
All right, all right yeah going back old school.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So another one for you that put Radio Shack and you
know Circuit City at business.
Do you guys remember Newegg,newegg?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh yeah, the online store.
Right yeah, the online store.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's what kind of like you know started bringing
the online stuff and that's whatkind of killed Circuit City and
.
Radio Shack and all that.
So what I bring this up, allthese names, is there's a
computer store opening up inMiami.
It's called Micro Center.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Micro Center.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, they're based out of Ohio and it's supposed to
be like one of the biggestindoor computer stores in the
country.
So they're coming up here in2024.
We got to make a trip downthere.
I don't know when they'reopening up.
They're opening up this yeardown in miami.
It's going to be very oldschool, like circuit city.
Yeah, yeah, and you know, Imean, I know we got best buy,
but best buy sells electronics.
(03:38):
This is like old schoolcomputer stuff where you can go
in and make your keyboards andmake your motherboards.
It's opening up down in miami.
It's going to be huge fellas,wow.
So yeah, I don't know when in2024 it's opening up this year.
So we definitely got to make atrip down there they're going to
sell everything.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They're going to sell everything.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So, yeah, this is kind of why I'm bringing this up
.
It's called micro center, so weneed to make a trip as tech
hustle go down there, take ourkids definitely, and yeah so
yeah, keep an eye on it.
Micro center, that's why I kindof wanted to bring it up.
I still miss that old schoolgoing to me too.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I missed that, you know getting the mother.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I know you can get this stuff online now and stuff,
but there's nothing like goinginto a store like picking your
parts and building it and stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was able to get introduced to Facebook, twitter,
where we met and then.
Andreessen, horowitz and thenAsana, and after getting fired
four times, I was in a point inmy life where I was like you
know what?
All the feedback I'd heard wasbasically you're too much, you
don't know.
(04:45):
Like you don't like, basicallyyou're too much right, like you
don't know the rules.
And I just got so tired ofpeople like hating on me for me,
not because of my job, notbecause I was doing anything
wrong, but just because of who Iwas.
And I was like I want to workwith myself.
I think I'm great, I'm awesome,so why not do it?
And I started my company.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
I big shout outs to her.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Basically what she's saying is if you fall, you can
always get up.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
And believe in yourself and love yourself
enough to to like really trustyourself that what you're
choosing and what is beingcalled to you is the right thing
.
Being called to you is theright thing Because I had no
idea how to start a company.
I just was like, okay, I guessI'm going to do this Like the
first six months I didn't havean LLC and didn't get
incorporated until then, gotmyself into a lot of debt
(05:36):
because I bootstrapped and Ithought that was the only way.
And it wasn't good debt, right,it wasn't like a loan or
anything like that, it wascredit cards.
And I had never had debt.
So I was like okay, cool, butplease don't do that.
But please, whoever's listening, do not do that.
Um, and thankfully I can saynow four years later, I'm debt
(05:57):
free um so my investment paidoff, hey investing in yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That that's key right there.
Appreciate you and um.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And yeah, now, in four years you know, after me I
made that decision I was able toland some pretty big clients,
um, to date we've served about 5000 people.
We've um been able to, you know, have a thousand hours of
coaching and about six milliondollars generated and new, new
offers and salary say that again.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Six say that again.
Six million dollars generatedand new, new offers and salary.
Say that again.
Six say that again six millionbig round of applause for
catalina very much, and this islike listening to your story and
understanding where you startedfrom being able to get to a
point where um otherorganizations just didn't see
your value and and then youbelieving in yourself, even
(06:45):
though that first ledge didrequire you to get that.
But then afterwards, just thinkabout this impact Six million
dollars in impact and people'slives that you have directly
influenced.
Give her another round ofapplause, bring that out.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Honestly, I think, like, I think.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
This is like almost everyone, but I always used to
have like imposter syndrome.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
It was so bad, like, and I remember like I really
felt it the most when I was likeswitching from electrical
engineering to computer science,because like that's a big
change, and I was like junioryear yeah I'm like am I, am I
ready?
To make that decision, yeah andI remember like, so I joined
copath like in 2021, like 2022that was.
(07:34):
The first class I took wasmobile app development and I'm
like this is fun, you know, likeI do enjoy doing this and
that's when, like that idea oflike wanting to switch from
hardware to software actuallylike came to my head and then I
started coding technicalinterviews, but I was just very
scared Am I sure I can do this?
Am I actually sure I can dothis?
And it got so bad, where Icould have a technical interview
(07:58):
didn't go so well and I juststopped coding for two months,
three months straight, I justwent goodbye, closed the months,
three months straight, like.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I just wouldn't even look at it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Goodbye, close the laptop, put it in bag, goodbye,
like.
And it was really like hard tomentally get out of that space
and I think that was like mybiggest challenge is like
trusting in myself and likebelieving, like you know, like
making that change was worth it.
Like trust, because at thatpoint, like you don't know what
the end goal is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
You're still in the process, like, how do you assure
yourself that like you'remaking the right choice, how do
you assure yourself that you'rereally good at what you're doing
?
And it's so funny how, likesometimes, that imposter
syndrome used to creep up and Iwould find myself like going
(08:45):
into different security.
Yeah, I just I just felt, likeyou know, in that moment, like I
really like softwareengineering, but I'm like I'm
not sure I could code let mejust try this and try that and
try this and all that kind ofstuff.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
So yeah, it's yeah it's really imposter syndrome
now, um, in terms of yourjourney, um, and, and let me
know if you cool with me talkingabout where your internship is
gonna be, but go ahead and letus know where you're cool with
me talking about where yourinternship is going to be?
Oh for sure for sure but goahead and let us know where
you're going to be doing somesummer interning at in the
coming weeks coming months.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Okay, so I'm going to be in Redmond Washington with
Microsoft Woo.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Look at that.
That's what's up.
Yo, it's literally lit overthere because, um, I'm so proud
of you, I'm so happy for you tohave this opportunity.
If y'all didn't hear it, evanis going to be at microsoft and
turning this summer holding itdown for all of them honestly,
(09:39):
hard work, consistency.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
You just have to practice like practice, like
practice, because I think theone thing and I think it's life
in general like nothing getshanded to anyone you have to
work hard to get it and themoment you put in that work,
you're gonna get it.
You know, you just have tobelieve in yourself yeah you
know and I always used to tellmyself you know, you have to
have faith you know, you have tobe delusional, del.
(10:04):
You know you have to bedelusional, delusional, like you
have to be delusional.
I remember, like before myMicrosoft offer came, like I was
talking to my friend and I'mlike you know, I keep seeing
like the Microsoft logoeverywhere and he's like you're
going to get used to it, you'regoing to see it posts about I
started searching about.
(10:25):
Oh, after grad I'm going to bein Seattle Just making sure that
you see yourself in thosespaces because you get to
manifest those things.
When you see it and believe it,it's going to come to pass.
Work hard and it's all going tomake sense in the end.
Honestly, that's really mybiggest advice Work hard and
you'll get it.
You'll get it.
You'll get it 100%.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Thank you so much for that well, I will tell you,
I consider myself an OG in techshout outs to the OG's out there
because when I first started intech, I was working for Xerox
she's taking it way back, wayback.
I've been doing the way backclock.
(11:07):
At that time, xerox had largecopiers.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
I was there selling door-to-door when we came out
with the desktop copiers, sothat was late 70s and then I got
recruited by IBM, which was atthat time Shut up.
Yes, that was the Google of theday.
For sure, 100% yes yes, Oneyear I hired 16 people to be in
our executive developmentprogram and eight of them
(11:33):
happened to be black.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
From the top business schools one from
Cornell, one from MIT, four fromWharton one from.
Uva and another one fromChicago.
That's awesome's up and mymanager told me we're sitting on
a campus of over 14,000 peopleand my manager told me I hired
too many black people.
Why, that was eight.
I call them my grade eight.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
I hired 16 people.
But that's sweet 16, but mygrade eight were the ones that
really stood out for me and whenI realized that, you know, are
they going to get the rightopportunities here.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
And if not, then maybe we need to move on, yeah
for sure so.
I ended up I say I quit andstayed.
You know, in my mind I quitsaying I know that I'm not going
to be here for long, I need todo something else, yeah.
And so I ended up going to workwith a young lady who was doing
the Black MBA magazine, andthen I started my own executive
(12:29):
search and consulting firmcalled PKS Executive Search.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Thank you for that poor said.
Speaker 11 (12:35):
One young lady, I was told, and this was before
the year 2000,.
And I was told that if I hiredher, she was from Duke
University had her MBA.
If I hired her and she was fromDuke University, had her MBA.
If I hired her and she didn'tdo well, that they were going to
fire me.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's what HR told me.
That's another whomp, whomp forme.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
And so I just got divorced.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I was a single mom yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
And my manager asked me do you still want to hire?
I said yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's what's up.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
And she said well then you are fooled.
I said I know she's going to dowell.
And today she's a CTO.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
If you are someone who enjoys funny pranks on
others, I have some sites foryou to fool friends, members or
coworkers.
The point is to not gooverboard like D Hustle here.
It is just to have fun, allright.
These sites are to have fun onyour friends, your family,
coworkers.
Do not go overboard like DHustle, all right.
(13:42):
Especially, don't do this atyour IT guys or at work.
All right, do not do this atwork.
So full disclosure here.
The first one is it's calledUpdate Faker.
So Update Faker.
Check out this site, guys.
It's great.
Play it on your kids or yourcoworkers.
You know how someone's workingon a big, important project and
you know they got a Windowsupdate.
So go to Update Fakeraker.
(14:02):
Depending on if the person hasa windows or mac os and you know
how windows updates are going,yeah, you can't mess with a
windows update.
It's so important.
The person's going to starethere and wait for that windows
update to go and it's just goingto go.
It's just going to go onforever.
So go to this website, pick yourflavor.
If they got windows 10, windows11, even if they have a Mac,
put it in F11.
(14:22):
That'll make it in full screenand that Windows update will go
on forever and ever, guys.
So yes, it is pretty slick.
So there's a Mac one in there.
So it's pretty cool.
So there's another one in theretoo.
If you go on there and youselect Windows, you hit the
enter key.
It will give them the bluescreen of death.
Hit the enter key or even thespacebar key there's also.
(14:44):
It will do the same thing forthe mac os as well.
So, whether they have a mac orwindows, check this out.
If you want to play a prank onyour kids or your co-workers, go
to update faker.
It's got five different flavorson there for you and have fun,
guys it's chinese company toroll out ai power sex pops.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh, we're focused on emotional connections.
How do I get one?
Of those all right, it's a bigindustry over there in china I
don't know if you guys know overthere's a big market of sex, of
going on all over there.
So basically what he's saying,mr Lee, which is the CEO of the
(15:26):
company, he said the newgeneration of sex doll, powered
by AR models equipped withsensors that can react with both
movement and speech,significantly enhancing users'
experience by focusing onemotional connection rather than
the basic conversationalabilities.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Wow, that's interesting.
Yeah, ladies, step your game up.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm just saying and these are available for men and
women.
Oh, okay then Wow.
All right, so if you're looking, for a significant other and
don't want to buy dinnerinteresting or go out.
Yeah, you just bring out yourdoll him or her call her
whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Don't discriminate here.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
No, and you know, have a great time and then shut
the fuck up, go right back inthe closet and continue your
fucking day interesting bigshout outs to d hustle, trusting
uh technology.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
We was driving around the city and all of a sudden we
see this white car with allthese cameras on it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I mean, you can't miss it shout out to drag war,
for sure, right you can't missthese cars, and the thing is
cars, it wasn't just one.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It wasn't just two.
I mean, there were like crazyamount of these cars.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There's a lot of them .
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Autonomous vehicles.
Basically nobody's driving themexcept the computer and AI is
driving them.
So we was in the city and thefirst time we saw it, right, we
were all excited taking picturesand stuff like that.
And then we see another one,see another one, see another one
, see another one, and then wewere driving and then we were
like yo, I wonder if we can justjump in, you know, catch one of
these rides because it seemslike it's so accessible.
So D was like yo, just pullover and, you know, check it out
(17:16):
real quick.
So I get on my phone and Ididn't even go to a website or
nothing, straight to the appstore and I looked up the
company it's waymo w-a-y-m ookay, and I'm like all right,
let me go find this.
And it said waymo car.
I installed it.
In less than 15 minutes we wereready to ride in a car, like it
was just like an uber.
Wow, perfect, like perfectexperience.
(17:36):
Walk to this destination, thislocation.
It even had us take a littlescenic route through a little
park for us to go pick up thecar.
And while we were there standingthere waiting for the car, d
and I are just sitting therelike dang I can't believe about
to do this and before you knowit, the car pulls up so smooth,
just pulls right up on thecorner.
You got to press the button tounlock the doors open.
D sat in the front first, I satin the back and crazy were you
(18:00):
guys scared or creeped out oranything?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm not not going to lie.
I was nervous, I was like yolisten, I don't trust nobody.
I think that's you see, bug me.
Yeah, this is not going to workvery well, I was nervous.
I was like you know what SanFrancisco is way in advance.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, it's like you live in the future, bro.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
If people trust them it is what it is, you know, yeah
, but it was a good experience.
I felt good about it.
Would I do it again?
110, 100, um.
It's just a matter of time ofgetting over that fear and yeah,
you got it, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, now who's behind this?
Like that's a great question Iwant.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm glad you said that.
So I was telling bobby that itfelt like um, I don't know if
you ever had one of those orseen these type of race car
remote.
Uh, you're sitting down with amonitor all the way around and
you can see everything.
It's uh, oh man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I felt like somebody's at home just driving
the car around and you're donebecause freaky yeah, yeah, it's
crazy but d did say that he feltlike it was driving more safer
yeah, and not trying to driveaggressively, right yeah?
Like it was, like safety wasfirst for it like it would stop
or pause, but it also picked upspeed too yeah, when it was.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Maybe it has cameras all the way around.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's crazy it has cameras all the way around it
has something like it's spinning.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't know if it's like like some waves, that is
detecting radar type like aradar.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
But yeah, that's pretty cool, I guess.
Obviously it's a leak, it'slegal there and all that right.
Do they care, right?
That's the thing about in sanfrancisco, people ask for
forgiveness afterwards.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But I tell you, bro, there was no way that you could
miss it, because it wasdefinitely roaming around the
city and then, in terms of justexperience-wise, it was just
like catching an Uber and thecost wasn't that expensive
either.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
No, no, no, no, no.
It is like catching an Uber,but I think we were more
luxurious than everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's more like Give him a round of applause.
He's saying that the luxurystatus was a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, when people's driving an Uber, right, are
anybody taking pictures of Ubers?
No, everybody was takingpictures of us.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah, we felt like we were superstars, exactly,
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So it's more of a luxurious, like we're superstars
.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wow.
So it's like Okay, a luxuriouslike we're superstars.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, I mean I officially felt like what it
felt like or what it feels liketo be famous yes, everywhere we
stop people take out theirphones recording and.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'm like waving and everything.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And there's nobody on the driver's side.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, I mean just hearing the story, I'm just like
whoa, this is kind of freaky.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's what made it cool for me After I was scared
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I see people taking out their phones.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I feel special yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And he's sitting in the front too.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
They're recording me.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I'm recording you.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah, so that's only a WestCoast thing, because I've never
heard of that down here in theEast.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Coast, it in the East Coast.
It probably will come later on.
Yeah, it'll definitely make itsway.
I think it's ready.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I think, it's ready.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
City-wise definitely.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
It was quite interesting.
It felt as though, like I think, I was in it while it was going
on yeah.
I remember one day I hadn'tbeen to the office because I was
always working from home.
And then one day I hadn't beento the office because I was
always working from home.
Um, and then one day I wentinto the office and it felt so
dark and sad yeah, I remembermyself and some other colleague
(21:37):
were just in a room like thisand then having a conversation
and went to one colleague ofours not black.
Um, it was just there and thenhe looked so sad I think he's
asian and he possibly wasworried about, like, his visa
situation and all.
Yeah, yeah, um, so it was, itwas it was extremely bad.
Um, I think there were so manyrumors or so many things and
(21:58):
some of them came out to be trueactually, um, I remember that
night where, like everybody'slaptops were just like dying in
front of their eyes yeah, um,and everybody was just typing
and saying, oh yeah, I'm outyeah, I'm out so many things
were.
It was, it was crazy.
It was like rumors of war andthen so many people getting
killed and it was.
It was just bad yeah, um, yeahum, my whole entire managerial
(22:23):
chain was cut off like um, whileI was there in the first round
actually there were severalrounds after maybe even five or
six, I'm not sure, but in thefirst round I wasn't impacted.
I think the major thing thathappened was that Elon started
asking and saying I need peopleto work 80 hours every single
(22:44):
week and all of that and I waslike, yeah, sure, I mean I could
do that, but then maybe it hasto be my thing, I can work on
your thing for 80 hours.
But also in the fact that, likeI don't think I saw the vision
that you see for this company,yeah even though I feel like
there are a bunch of things thatwe could do yeah um, I think
the direction in which we wereactually taking it was not some
way I saw it, and so when he putout the old label of choose yes
(23:10):
or no, I didn't click on yes, Ijust left it.
And so he told me to go and Iwas like, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, hey.
That's how it plays out, andthe part that I really feel in
terms of just you talking aboutit is the emotions associated
with it, because people justdon't know how we rode for that
blue bird it was different right.
We held it at a different levelin terms of our contributions
and also our commitment, right?
(23:37):
Somebody's asking us to do morefor something else that y'all
don't even ride like that, forit's like yo.
I don't think we can keep thatsame momentum and I definitely
want to show you respect for youknow, being one of those that
be like hey, I'm done, because alot of people, like you said,
were forced to be in thatsituation because they had visas
issues, family issues, medicalissues and stuff like that, um,
(23:57):
and and a lot of people don'tknow what that feels like to
stand for something like thatand then obviously understand
the results of it.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
so big round of applause for him to have that
experience be able to tell yourstory you're going to meet a lot
of people in life that's goingto say you know, like I'm a good
person, I do this.
Yeah, I'm a good person, I dothis.
And that's a dangerous way ofliving and a dangerous way of
(24:24):
looking at life.
I'm going to tell you why.
Right, so one of the quickestways you can lose everything is
thinking that you can earnsomebody's respect or earn
somebody's grace or whatever,whatever.
So I'll give you an examplewhat I mean.
Right, if somebody does a lotof things for you, that's cool,
does a lot of things for you,that's cool.
And you keep doing it, keepdoing it.
(24:45):
So now you think that they're acertain way because of the
works that they showed you.
Now you're going to look atthis person like, oh, that's my
man, oh, that's the homie.
They looked out for me, theydid this, they did that, they
did works to show you something.
So now, once they get 100%close to you and they got 100%
(25:06):
access to things that you wouldnormally keep private or
whatever it is, they are now ina position to completely
manipulate everything.
Take everything from you andyou will be like I thought they
was.
Yeah, you never knew them, theyjust knew what to do to get to
(25:27):
you.
The thing is, your value was intheir works, but you never saw
who they was.
In the Bible it shows you thatthrough faith and grace are we
saved.
What it is is and this hit mestrong if you was to ask
somebody, how many lies have youever told in your life?
And then everybody be like,well, dang, like countless lies,
(25:51):
like you know what I'm sayingif you're looking at it across
my life.
Yeah, so do you ask them andsee if they honest with
themselves, um, is a liar a goodperson?
And then it's like you havesome people that would be like,
well, yeah, like a liar could bea good person because you did
this good thing.
Good, doing a good deed or abad deed is literally that a
(26:12):
good deed or a bad deed.
But being a good person, thatmeans you have to be perfect and
there's only one that's perfectyou're not perfect so once I
realized that I wasn't a goodperson we were sinners that's
when I realized I was free,because now I don't have to
carry the burden of trying to beperfect or trying to be this
good person.
I can actually live my lifedoing the best that I can,
(26:37):
knowing that the only reason I'mable to do anything is through
the grace of God.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
The story out last week where a gentleman made I
think he made like 112 fake AIbands and then he also created
bots where they just basicallywere streaming the music off of
the fake ai bands and he endedup making about 10 million
(27:08):
dollars 10 million dollars shoutout to that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So yeah, I'm just trying to find out.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, shout out to him.
I was just trying to find outwhat he did illegally, but he
created the bots to boost hissales.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
He put us up on game right.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, so, but then again, I mean, don't Isn't there
like always, like you know,little thing there On certain
artists using bots and stufflike that.
You know whether it's Meg TheeStallion, or if it's Drake or
Kendrick, I mean you know.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I mean Because.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Spotify likes to crack down on that Because it is
illegal.
You're not supposed to use bots, but we know the music industry
does do that to kind of boosttheir artists up.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So but I'm just trying to understand what this
gentleman did wrong um, the botsweren't real and, uh, I guess
he got caught on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
He got caught, michael smith is his name 10
million dollars in royalty fromapple music, spotify and other
podcasts are posting.
Ai shout out to him prettybrilliant idea, idea, yeah,
brilliant, great concept.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
$10 million the only difference is that he's not a
star, that's true, those bandswere not stars either.
Those bands are not stars andthey haven't seen him perform
once.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Not once, not once.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
He got caught up.
Now let's discuss this.
Was it the band's that's deathsillegal, or was it the bots?
What did he do wrong?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think it was the bots.
Yeah, me too I agree, you canmake music, everybody's making
music right now with AI andstuff like that.
But to boost up to this, becauselet's be realistic here when
you put something online, it'sall about how many people look
Facts, Correct and likes yeah,yeah, it's all about how many
people look Facts and likes yeah, yeah, in the booth.
So he had to get.
How many bots did he do?
(28:44):
He had to do Thousands,thousands of bots, maybe two
grand Two thousand bots, yeah,yeah, to boost it up.
Yeah, I think he did.
He just got caught.
Yeah, I mean, he started thisFrom when I was reading Since
2019.
Yeah, actually it's ten,000active bots I'm going to have to
laugh at that if he would have5,000, he might have been able
(29:06):
to just slide through.
I might make it another year,but man, I agree with D.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think it's definitely the part where the
bots themselves are hitting andmessing with the numbers.
And then they're getting paidfor that because technically,
let's say, those bots cost him adollar.
A bot, that's $10,000, right.
But that $10,000 flipped up andmade $10 million, right.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's a good flip right there.
I think that happens toeverybody.
We got too happy.
Yeah yeah, money, happy, youknow, the year was coming in
Next year, said I need afreaking Lamborghini Next year.
After that I need a boat.
I need more, I need more views.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
All I need is more.
I ain't got caught up.
That's exactly.
That's crazy, you know.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Bots are used on A lot of different.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Platforms Right.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Whether it's Twitter or Instagram, I mean come on.
Do these people Like, reallyhave the followers?
They really have the followersthey really have.
I guess because they're notgetting monetized.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exactly, they're making money.
Exactly, it's fine, yeah, Imean, it is kind of like if
you're not getting paid for it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They don't care, okay , but if you think about, I
think YouTube has bots too,don't you?
Think so a YouTube channel with100,000 people in there, there
has to be some bots in there,right Well?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
yeah, I mean depending on how fast their
100,000 subscribers are.
So yeah.
Yeah, but yeah no, it's justcurious, interesting.
Speaker 13 (30:36):
Yeah, yeah.
And I had a dream that I wasworking for Apple.
I had a dream that I wasworking for Apple and I was
shocked because, first of all, Iwas so focused on medicine I
had never even thought abouttechnology at all, not because I
didn't think I could do it, butjust because I was like that
has nothing to do with me.
Like minding my own business,staying in my lane.
But you got a taste of that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Python.
I sure did, does your?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
mom know my mom Because?
No, my mom, because the firstthing they want to do are you
going to be a doctor, a?
Lawyer you know all that stuff,I'm telling you, I'm telling
you so for her like it's sofunny you said that.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
So three things for her.
She was like either medicine,either law, or either becoming
an engineer and obviously beingin New York, civil engineering,
architecture, is super huge.
So I was the kid that sheassigned medicine I was really
good at mathematics and scienceanyway, ie my degree, but moving
along strong.
So anyhow, yeah, went online toLinkedIn, was trying to figure
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out who I knew at the time thatI worked at Apple, and a good
friend of mine, who I justrecently graduated, worked at
the store and I was like, hey,you know, I think I want to work
here.
I actually started my journeyin retail FYI.
If you guys didn't know thatand want to like work here, yeah
, um, I actually started myjourney in retail fyi, if you
guys didn't know that.
And so she was like, hey, I cantotally uh refer you.
And literally after shereferred me, I think, a week
later I heard back from arecruiter and, um, five weeks
(31:49):
later, after five rounds ofinterviews, I got the job.
The strategy was you canmeasure success by helping
people get into tech, helpingthe individuals who never knew
that six figures was attainableand then from there seeing that
it's okay to also have work-lifebalance, yeah, yeah so that's
what it was for me.
So, yeah, took the time in May2020 was like hey, you know, hey
(32:09):
, those who are interested ingetting into tech, feel free to
you know, use my LinkedIn or mycalendar link and I'm happy to
you know, provide you with freeyou know service.
Again, I was like Lord'm justgoing to use this as a way to
serve the people.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
That's how it became what it was Big shout-outs.
Speaker 13 (32:28):
I'm just again.
Very grateful for where it hascome to be.
Thanks for the support, bobbyand the community.
From there we were able to helpabout 400 plus people get into
tech with making six-figuresalaries.
Plus, I think, totalcompensation is around $27
million to $30 million in totalcompensation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Let's take a pause right there.
Can you repeat that numberagain?
How much money have youcollectively been able to help
people get?
Speaker 13 (32:58):
Yes, so between $27 and 30 million dollars in total
compensation so salary sign-onbonuses and also stock options.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That's what's up beautiful.
That's what's up.
One of the things that we haveas a challenge as software
engineers, especially whenworking on the internet, is
raymond and d hustle may not bein my region.
They might be on the other sideof the world.
So how do I share code with you?
All is using a version controlsystem like Git, where I can
(33:30):
have a copy on my laptop, shareit to D-Hustle, d-hustle has his
copy, raymond has his copy, andthen we're working collectively
to merge our changes together.
It's definitely a way for youto manage history, like what did
Bobby change, what did D-Hustlechange but also being able to
tie that into deployment systemsso that systems and software
can automatically be updated asnew code is being merged into
(33:54):
this version control system.
Another thing that I like toalso mention about version
control systems is there is away that you can have a
centralized repository whereeverybody can fetch and get the
latest copy.
This is on something calledgithub.
Y'all heard of github before.
Right, yes, and I'm sorry tointerrupt.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Excuse my dull moment here.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Maybe you can explain no, go ahead d because so get
and github is not the same thingthat's a great question.
So so Git is the tool, githubis the platform.
Let's go.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
One of my favorite movies is Black Panther, but
maybe not for the reason thatpeople think, if you look at the
movie and think about this nexttime you look at the movie,
killmonger was physically biggerand stronger than Black Panther
.
T'challa won because helistened to the women in his
life.
Facts he had a team.
Killmonger had no team.
Black Panther had a team.
That's the difference in thestory.
He had women in his life whoadvocated for him when he
(34:52):
couldn't fight for himself.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Facts.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
And if that's not a metaphor for us as men to listen
and insight that comes fromnon-traditional sources.
I don't know what it is.
So what I say to some of theguys I mentor is listening to
your wife doesn't make you lessof a man, but not listening to
your wife can make you a lesssuccessful man.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Ooh, giving that a gem right there, For sure 100%.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
There's no one in your life besides maybe your
mama.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Say it again, because sometimes people don't listen.
Yeah, so we're running back.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
So listening to your wife doesn't make you less of a
man, but not listening to yourwife may make you a less
successful man.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
She can see some things that you can't.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
And she may have insight into things, but, like
outside of maybe your mom, whoelse is there that's as aligned
with your success as your wife?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
100% 100%, because we're moving together.
I go left, we go left.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I go right, we go right Right.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And at the end of the day, uh, mindset wise.
Uh, my wife and I honor her toto the core because, uh, I tell
a lot of people like when I walkinto a room she sees you before
I even see you type stuff rightit's just mindset wise is that
um it's, it's a collective thather and I have created, and when
we move, we move together.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
So I'll prophesy.
So leadership came to me at onepoint and said hey, marlon, we
just got access to this toolcalled opening.
I you know um early accessright and everything, and so
like, uh, they was like hey, youknow, do you think you know you
can use this tool to help uswrite grants faster?
(36:16):
On our profit side, and so,going back to that, I'm like
yeah, sure, I know I figured itout.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Having no clue what to do.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I got it.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
So I told him this is why I like actually, it's
probably like we're on this time.
We know the time when it's likelate in the year.
And so I told him I said, look,don't expect any results to
like end of the year.
I figured it out in a weekend.
Oh, that's what's up.
So essentially, man, what weended up building was one of the
first AI grant writers on topof GBT-3.
That's what's up.
And so GBT-3 had launched andeverything, and so we figured it
(36:53):
out and built some stuff aroundit.
At that time period it wasdefinitely private, it was
private beta, and yet they wasapproving you know, I don't know
a couple hundred people a month, whatever it may be.
And so at that time, opening outwas so small you can literally
like email specific engineersyeah, yeah and talk to them
(37:13):
about what you're building andwhat you're working on, what
you're trying to figure it outand everything.
And so, like the biggesttransition when we was building,
you know this AI grant writer,you know we basically you had to
like store, you know a databaseand everything.
So now it's like a vectordatabase, yeah, and so you know,
at the time, you know, I thinkI think vector database was
(37:34):
coming up, but I just wasn'tfamiliar with it.
So you had to put all yourdocuments in a JSON lines lines
file and I was like what thehell is json lines?
like I know what json is yeah Iwas like what json lines is, and
so it's so tedious andeverything, and so essentially
it's json, but everything butjust like line by line, by line,
(37:54):
by line by line yeah everything, and so it makes the embedding
process easier yeah, well, whichis the future of vector
databases?
right, yeah, yeah right and soit makes the embedding process
easier to read and everythingit's going to go through and so
so, yeah, man, so like once I,once we built in and kind of
understand, I understand thefoundations of it and how it
reads and how it understands andhow it documents you know
documents and everything likethat.
(38:15):
I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Isee what this is.
And so the day chachi to be,the day, I saw chachi um chachi
on gpt, I probably like saw,like the first description, the
first line.
I was like, oh, I know exactlywhat this is oh you peep game
quick.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I know exactly what this is.
Yeah, yeah and so.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
So from there, man, you know, I think the rest of
the world was like oh, this isinteresting, and I just had the
privilege of kind of like beinginto it and stuff already, and
and so from there, man, Istarted teaching building.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
It didn't know that.
Um, if you make music with AI,you cannot copyright it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Ooh, it's free.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
So if you make any type of music with AI, so it is
not free.
You have to make the lyrics offof your brain that is
copyrighted, so I thought thatwas interesting so explain that
a little bit more so I don'tknow if you guys remember, with
the kendrick lamar and yeah uh,drake battle.
There was a guy that went aheadand made fun of drake.
He made the song called bbldrizzy ah, yes, I remember that
(39:19):
took off.
He made that with ai so hecannot copyright that.
A bunch of people spend off ofit and made their own versions
of it yeah so apparently he canonly make money off the lyrics,
but the actual song is open toanyone, so that was interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's the thing
with ai is that they're going tobe so many new regulations and
ways that we're going to have tolearn how to develop.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
But my question is would you still listen to the
song if it's created by AI?
Yeah, I don't know.
I feel some type of way aboutthat.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
But let me ask you this Do you want to be notified
if it is, or would you just notto be notified at all?
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not checking for an.
Ai artist, I mean, I mean.
Yeah, I don't know, I feelweird about that now.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, yeah.
So Raymond Haven't gotten ontothat board yet.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Here's the thing why we we have to say Is AI
generated?
If not, so let's say, if I putout some music, and You're gonna
have a A different point ofperspective If it's me.
Or or if I tell you, hey, it'sAI.
If you say it's me, ah nah, youcan't do the crap by yourself.
Yeah, yeah, you know what I'msaying.
(40:28):
Or if it's AI, oh my god, youstill can't do the crap by
yourself.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's uh, but if I give it to you, what I've seen
is AI and you like.
Oh man, you did good yeah yeah,yeah, heads up, it's ai, and
then is your opinion gonnachange after that?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
oh, I mean, I know raymond's opinion.
Yeah, definitely, we knowraymond's opinion.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I can't.
It's ai man.
I thought he was the man.
That's not.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Let me let me give you the soon as he hears that
it's's a rap, there goes all theSoundCloud rappers I mean me.
I'm just looking forward to thequality of music is going to
take another leap, in my opinion, because of the lyrics that are
going to be generated, versuswhat we're listening to right
now, Because music right now istoo much mumble rap, like D was
(41:21):
saying, but also just too muchadult-type stuff.
They're always talking aboutsmashing and stuff like that and
I'm like yo do y'all hear whaty'all are saying?
Are these lyrics reallyconscious?
I'm hoping that AI brings backconscious rapping.
I don't know, We'll see.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
We'll see what happens.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what advice would youhave for the next generation of
you know like-minded peoplethat were at Brown or you know
in high school, interested incomputer science?
What advice would you give themin terms of getting into the?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
field now?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I feel like one big thing thatwe kind of miss with remote is
just people like relationshipslike running to bobby d at the
office, you know what I'm sayinglike yeah, I really miss that
and I would say keep in contactwith your network.
Like one thing that happenedthis year was that I was feeling
(42:20):
like I really missed mycoworkers from Twitter.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I was like.
My friend was like why don'tyou just reach out to them?
And everyone was really happyto like meet up with me or Zoom
with me.
They missed me too.
So my first advice isdefinitely keep in contact with
your network.
Just meet up with people forcoffee.
Your network is going to bereally helpful in getting you
jobs and just learning things,and also just having people to
(42:45):
give you advice is huge yeah um,I think another thing is along
with that uh, find mentors.
It's harder in the remote worldwe live in now to find mentors,
like I just met you at nesBE.
I met Chris Coco around theoffice.
I met Susan around the office.
These are just people I hadrandom encounters with, but we
(43:07):
don't have as many randomencounters now.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, yeah, so for sure.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, reach out to people, see if they'll mentor
you.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Like, don't be afraid to put yourself out there, but
mentors are really important andyeah, it's a little hard to
find them now, but they're outthere and they want a mentor
yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure,are actually working on a
project where we're buildingdata centers, or we're talking
(43:34):
about designing data centers byre-utilizing some older
buildings, because you knowthere's a lot of vacant
buildings in all of these citiesand why not convert some of
these buildings into datacenters?
And if you're not familiar withthe data center, look at the
links below.
We'll have access to that.
But these data centers are thecentralized place where we host
and put computers in there, butnot just a regular data center
(43:54):
on the edge of the internet, butlet's make it an AI edge data
center, something that wepotentially could have AI
workload running in a cityrather than running in these big
old data centers.
Or I just read an article aboutXAI having, you know this
massive computing with thousandsof GPUs.
Why not just spread them outacross the country or across the
world into smaller locations sothat people in those areas can
(44:17):
access it?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Data centers, their room or facility has to be
extremely cold.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, yeah, can access it.
Data centers, their room orfacility has to be extremely
cold.
Yeah, yeah.
So the one of the cool thingsabout um data center designs is,
um you can take advantage of,uh like isolating that cool or
cooling the whole building, andwhen you're cooling the whole
building, it's kind of soinefficient, right?
Um, and just for those that areum wondering about what a data
center is, just think of a datacenter as like a warehouse, um,
a warehouse full with computersfrom the floor to the ceiling,
(44:45):
and if you're cooling that wholebuilding, you have a lot of
space that's not being used interms of computing resources,
from the ceiling to the top ofthe rack.
But this idea is taking it intoa smaller footprint and
possibly using something calledliquid cooling.
Have you heard of liquidcooling?
Speaker 11 (45:01):
yet yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So liquid cooling is something that's getting even
more popular with AI, with thetype of chips that they're
developing, but CPU liquidcooling too, because the other
day I watched this video agaming computer remember yeah, I
was going to say that.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, I was going to say that gaming computers had
those.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Yeah, gaming computers are coming out with
liquid cooling in them, which iscrazy.
They them.
Which is crazy.
They literally have a radiator.
They literally have a, a waterline that goes directly to the
cpu and then a water line thatgoes back and, just like in a
car, it flows right through asit getting more hotter.
They had that for a whileactually some people don't trust
it yeah yeah, because any leak?
yeah, the whole thing is a wrap.
(45:35):
Yeah, well, water andelectricity don't go together,
right, or the water andelectronics in general, um, but
this idea of these data centersuh, these ai data centers are
going to be smaller, um doesrequire less amount of cooling,
less amount of space, and that'swhy this proposal is really
focusing on, you know, buildingsthat are either, you know,
vacant nobody's living in thereor using using it for business,
(45:57):
um, and just building on top ofthem like a lego set or a tetra,
tetra set of data centerresources, such as GPUs for AI.
So, yeah, if you are interestedin learning a little bit more
about this project, anddefinitely if you are an
investor or you want tocontribute either time or money
right, one of the two come andholler us here at the Tech
Hustle and we're definitelygoing to enlighten you.
(46:22):
This is episode number 50 kids,50, 50.
Can you believe it?
What's up?
Raymond?
Raymond, don't call him, he's50 now, he's that old Raymond.
Don't call him Ray Ray.
What up player?
What's?
Up morning, morning, morning,my guy D hustle, what up player.
What, oh man, can you believewe got to episode 50?
(46:43):
Yes man, we've been recordingfor a minute.
What did you say?
I have a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
What's up?
We're on episode 50.
I don't know if you guys knowthis, but most podcasts fail
within the first 15 episodes.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
First 15 episodes first 15 episodes.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yes, they don't even last a year.
I just found that out a fewweeks ago that's what's up not
saying we succeeded, but we didmake it to 50, give us a big
round of applause.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Come on now.
We got to make sure we give abig, big round of applause.
So we're beating the statistics, um, and we're on episode 50.
Uh, we've been at it for atleast two years, three years now
total.
Um, I would say we start offwith twitter spaces, right, um,
and then we move to audio onlyhas it been longer than that?
Speaker 4 (47:25):
it feels like it's been it has right, it feels a
little bit longer well, we havetwo years no, I think it's three
years.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Okay, yeah, because we started off with twitter
spaces first, um, and then wedid season two, all audio, um.
So if you haven't seen seasontwo or heard of season two, it's
on spotify and all platforms.
It's audio only.
And then for season three,which, getting this to our point
now, uh, we stepped it up alittle bit and obviously turned
on the camera so you can seewhat we look like and stuff like
that.
But we got a special specialguest for us today, uh, somebody
(47:54):
that's been supporting the showsince day one, day one.
If y'all been watching our show, you know that um, we have had
a segment where we shout out oursponsors throughout the whole
show.
Um, and we have the one andonly marvelous creation.
Bring her to the stage.
Big round of applause.
Welcome to the stage.
(48:17):
Marvelous creation, aka marleneto the stage.
Marvelous creation, aka welcome.
Marlene, also known as my love.
What's up, baby?
Say hi to everybody, hello,everybody, welcome, welcome,
welcome.
And this afternoon, what we'regoing to do is have a quick
conversation with you aboutmarvelous creations and your
contributions to our community,our family and your company and
(48:40):
all the amazing things thatyou've been doing.
So give us a quick introductionyourself.
Tell us what's your name, whereyou're from and how you know
the Tech Hustle.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
So my name is Marlene from Marvelous Creation and.
I'm Bobby DFL's wife.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Shout out to that 18 years, 18 years, 18 years.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
And I'm D Hustle's sister Biggest shout out right
there.
In California I also did Cakefor Kids.
It was an organization that didcakes for foster kids in the
hospitals and I really enjoyeddoing that because the kids all
love cakes and seeing the designthat you make and they get all
(49:27):
happy we're about to close itout, fellas, can y'all believe
episode 50?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
man.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I can't wait for next year.
2025 is right around the corner.
I hope you all are getting yourplans lined up.
I hope y'all are reflecting on2024 and all the great things
you do.
And one thing that I want tosay real quick if you bring the
music down real quick is I wantto give a few big thank yous.
First of all, let's get a biground of applause for my guy
Raymond don't call him Ray Ray.
(49:54):
Thank you so much for holdingit down, my brother, bringing
your nuggets, being availableand you know, and talking to the
camera and saying hi to thepeople and always being yourself
.
So we very much appreciate it.
And don't forget my right-handman, my guy D-Hustle.
I'm holding it down, my guyD-Hustle holding it down, as
always, all of 2024, travelingthe country with me, visiting
(50:19):
and featuring on Backstage withBobby D, also holding it down
here at the podcast, and all theoperation stuff that we got
going on here at the Tech Hustle.
I appreciate you, my brother.
Thank you so much for all thatyou do, my man.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
And a big round of applause back to you again.
Also, there's two more namesthat I want to mention real
quick Jasmine, jasmine Wright,jasmine.
Jasmine writes big shout out tojasmine right as man.
Uh, she's holding it down onour newsletter side of the table
.
Uh, we are coming out with ournext final episode of our
newsletter for this year, so Iwant y'all to make sure y'all
tune in and check it out.
And then I want to give a bigshout outs to our video guy.
What's his name again?
(50:52):
Um, raham, raham, my guy overin nigeria, overseas, my man.
Um very much appreciate all theproduction that you're doing.
We really do appreciate all thenew pop-ups and things that we
have going on in our video andif you don't see the like and
subscribe button, press it now.
Thank you so much for yourcontinued support here at the
Tech Hustle and if I forgot yourname and if I missed you,
(51:12):
definitely much respect to youand thank you all so much for
holding us down for this wholeyear.
We're going to keep it goingfor 2025.
Any last words, Raymond.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Everybody stay safe.
Have a good year.
See you in 2025.
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
My guy D Hustle what's upplayer.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
First of all, I want to thank everybody.
I want to thank my man, Raymond.
Don't call me Ray Ray, Eventhough in his discourse it says
Ray Ray.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm confusing.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
I also want to thank him also for uh losing his bet
that he has to give me some uhlunch.
He hasn't facts.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Facts, because he got put down in the d league.
Not even he's still playing,he's down to the d league also
want to give him a big shout outalso.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
He's got a lot of great nuggets.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youguys are not put onto the sit.
He's got a lot of good stuff.
Uh, in case he don't know, hegot got burner phones.
So, uh, last but not least, Iwas special Thank out to my man,
Um, Bobby D.
Without him, uh, my, my one ofmy right hand man's uh, without
(52:12):
him, I wouldn't know where,where I'd be right about now.
Um, thank you for giving me theopportunity and having me here
and being on the podcast beingpart of his love and his journey
.
And also happy holidays from us, from the Tech Hustle.
Much love to you guys and seeyou next year.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Roger that.
Turn that music back up.
Play up.
All right, y'all.
Thank y'all so much for tuningin.
We're at episode 50.
We're at the end of the year.
This is our last recording.
We still got some more stuffcoming out, so don't think that
we ain't going to be publishing.
But I want to say once again,thank y'all for being a part of
this community.
A big shout out to our almost3,000 followers on YouTube.
Give them a big round ofapplause for our followers on
(52:53):
YouTube.
Spotify.
We're running up numbers.
Our newsletter is running upnumbers.
Our community members.
Give a big shout out to ourcommunity members for holding us
down.
We got a new year coming upwith new ideas and different
things that we'll be working on.
If you're not already following, subscribe, tell your friends
about us, tell your communityabout us, because we're really
out here changing minds,changing lives.
And, yeah, we'll see y'all nextyear, 2025.
(53:14):
Peace.
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