The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo had special guests Gee Sivalingam, CEO and Austin Hyland, Chief Evanglest of Blockchain Service Provider Token Garage on his show to discuss thier upcoming Tulip Conference which is focused on emerging technologies in blockchain. Listen to the Clip to find out more about: 2018 Tulip Conference https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tulip-2018-blockchain-meets-enterprise-tickets-44711401004?aff=SVIN Be sure to subscribe to the podcast ahead of time. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh

Author and Coach Ellen Petry Leanse of "The Happiness Hack: How to Take Charge of Your Brain and Program More Happiness into Your Life" will be on Silicon Valley Insider Friday May 4th from 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley / San Francisco. Her podcast will be available at 2pm on Friday. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast ahead of time. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is joined by special guest Ganesh Iyer, CEO and Founder of Dotin. Dotin is an artificial intelligence platform meets "Myers-Briggs" in producing personality assessments. In light of the continuing news coverage regarding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and how they use "data scraping" techniques from those companies techniques people are rightfully fearful of how their personal data is used. Ganesh will explain how his company uses their platform in an ethical way.  Dotin has applications in Retail, HR, Sales and Marketing  For more information: Dotin.us For all other questions, comments or show ideas please email: info@svin.biz    

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo with guests Gee Sivalingam, CEO and Austin Hyland, Chief Evangelist of blockchain service provider, Token Garage discuss the hype around Blockchain and compare it to the Tulip (Bubble) Mania of the 1600s.  Once the mania dies and the bubble bursts, regular economic activity and technologicial advancement can occur. For all the "pets.com" and "webvans" during the internet bubble, Amazon and eBay still thrived. After the history lesson, Keith and the founders of Token Garage discuss the lack of real education and resources for Enterprises wanting to adopt of Blockchain, Distributed Ledger aka "Decentralized" technology and how they are putting the first "Blockchain meets Enterprise" conference to address the needs in this space. The Tulip Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA June 7-13th and has the following parts: 1) June 7-8 Enterrprise Blockchain Conference and Forum 2) June 8 - Block Producer / Mining Summit 3) June 9-10th - Networking Mixers during the weekend 4) June 11th-12th - 2 day Workshop on EOS and other public chains 5) June 13th - Hackathon For more information about the conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tulip-2018-blockchain-meets-enterprise-tickets-44711401004?aff=SVIN Coupon code for $50 savings: tulip50 For questions or comments about the show or if you would like to be a guest or have show ideas, please email info@svin.biz  

Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo and guest Clay Dedeaux, Senior Director of Sales and Operations of Crowdz.io discuss how their use of blockchain technology allows for significant cost savings for any business that relies on EDI or ACH payments in their supply chain. Keith and Clay review what Smart Contracts are and how Crowdz (who are backed by incubabors and accelerators such as Plug and Play, Techcode, Techstars and Barclays) revolutionizes the EDI and ACH payments industry by greatly simplying the transaction process. With the success of their current international use cases including China and Korea Crowdz is now in development with a trade finance solution that will level the playing field for small suppliers / small businesses trying to compete with larger, more established companies. For more information: Crowdz.io For all other questions, comments or show ideas please email: info@svin.biz

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is joined by guest Brian Reagan, Chief Marketing Officer of Andreessen-Horowitz backed data management company Actifio. In light of the General Data Protection Regulation enforcement starting on May 25th, 2018 in the EU and that the USA is considering similar regulatory oversight of data privacy and management; this show focuses on how companies can keep themselves with data privacy, security and resiliency (back up and disaster recovery). The show discusses the ongoing impact of the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal as well as how the City of Atlanta Georgia could have used a layer defense with companies like Actifio in having the ability to restore their data after their SamSam ransomware attack. Find out how a planned approach to data management and/or moving to cloud technologies can  be done efficiently and effectivley saving you and your company hard and soft costs while reducing your risk from cyber attacks and unplanned disasters. The show dives deep into what today's companies need to be thinking about in terms of the complexity of managing their data. Keith mentions how 10+ copies of data used to be a big number with lots of cost and overhead and how today it's common to have 15-20 copies plus tools, applications that are all generating data. As in a previous show "Is Moving to the Cloud safer?" https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/is-moving-to-the-cloud-safer-11-10-17 Moving to the cloud is not always safer if the technology and business teams do not underestand all the implications of adopting cloud technology.  If you need help in determining if moving to the cloud is the right decision for your company, or for more information regarding Guardian Insight Group, Actifio or any of the topics discussed on the show, please email info@svin.biz Actifio's investors include: NORTH BRIDGE VENTURE PARTNERS 83NORTH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VENTURES ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ TECHNOLOGY CROSSOVER VENTURES TIGER GLOBAL MANAGEMENT  

Listen to Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and special guests Gary Tu, Head of Changhong Innovation Labs North America and Business Development Manager Jennifer Wang as the discuss the long history of innovation with one of the World's leading manufactuers as they enter the North American market. Changhong is the #1 provider of refigration tecnologies as well as the #1 in IoT device manufacturing producing over 100 Million devices per year their motto is to "Help people lead happier lives" through their technology and solutions. Changhog Innovation Labs has a new product coming to North America in Q2 2018. An autonomous (or robotic) Chinese Chef that can serve customized meals for groups of 10-80 with over 50 built in recipes. This robot chef takes into account three important factors in chinese cooking: 1) ingredients, 2) heat curve and 3) timing curve. This type of device requires advanced engineering in technologies such as: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science, Suppy Chain logistics, Agriculture and Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data and Analytics. For questions, comments or more information email info@svin.biz    

Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo and special guest Eric Ly, Founder and CEO of Hub (and former Co-Founder and CTO of LinkedIn) discuss the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica issue and the need for people to be able to own their personal data. Eric's new project HUB aspires to connect Billions of users on the Internet to be able to interact with each other every day on messengers, online communities, social networks and peer-to-peer marketplaces, making contact with people they never met let alone trust. Eric walks us through several examples of how people will interact with Hub and the Human Transport Protocol to facilitate trust. A few years from now, people will be using blockchain to create trust relationships and build reputations and brands. Keith's tech news segment covers current hot topics such as autonmouns driving and Facebook's data collection. Cyber tip of the week addressed was alternatives other than "Delete Facebook" to keep Facebook users safe from a future Cambridge Analytica incident. For more information: HUB and the Human Transport Protocol: hubtoken.org For all other questions, comments or show ideas please email: info@svin.biz

One of Silion Valley Insider's original shows with host Keith Koo and author and Silicon Valley Visionary Jedidiah Yueh, Founder and Chairman of Delphix and former Founder and CEO of Avamar (which was sold to EMC for $170 million dollars). Jedidiah wrote "Disrupt or Die" What the World Needs to Learn from Silicon Valley to Survive the Digital Era - turning the old standards like "The Lean Startup Method" and the "Innovator's Dilemma" on their heads. Keith Koo was quoted as calling Jedidiah the "Jim Collins of the Digital Transformation Era".  Silicon Valley Insider (formerly Guardian Insights "Elevating Business to the Next Level" was the first media partner to showcase Jedidah's new book. The book had 100,000 downloads in its first week of publication, Next week, Eric Ly, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Founder and CEO of blockchain startup HUB will be on the show to discuss Human Trust Protocol powered by Hub Token. For more information email info@svin.biz

Silicon Valley Insider Host and special guest Leo Kahn of Propy discuss how Propy became the first online company to enable real estate transactions through cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.  The first international transaction, recently closed in Ukraine, was conducted by Michael Arrington founder of TechCrunch.  The first domestic transaction recently closed (Feb 2018) in Vermont. Leo and Keith discuss the real estate transaction market as a perfect use-case of smart-contract / blockchain technology.  What used to take weeks or months (title registration) now takes hours with Propy.com. Keith reported on an exclusive blockchain forum he attended that featured Natalia Karayaneva , CEO of Propy.com. Keith and Leo discussed her key points blockchain startups need to be successful business ideas.  Keith introduces the concept of Crypto Economics / Tokenomics as a necessary component to the utility of a successful blockchain program and how to get help with your project. As part of SVIN's weekly show Keith discusses latest tech news.  Although the news featured stories of theft in Iceland and an SEC widespread investigation of ICO's, the theft of Steve Wozniak's Bitcoin  lead to personal stories and laughter from Leo and Keith about having met the legendary innovator in the past. More about Propy:Propy is a global real estate marketplace with decentralized title registry. Their aim is to solve the problems associated with international and domestic real estate transactions by creating a first of its kind unified property store and asset transfer platform for the global / cross-border real estate industry. Propy allows buyers, sellers, brokers and escrow and title agents, notaries to come together through the utliziation of a suite of smart contracts via blockchain technology. Propy.com is the network for all of the traditional real estate actors to conduct trustless real estate transactions online.For more information about the show or how to evaulate a blockchain project utility (not a cryptocurrency as an investment) email info@svin.biz For more information about Propy go to propy.com  Blockchain, Innovation, Cross Border

Ever wonder what it is like to create software that has been downloaded 25,000,000 times? Listen to Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Special Guest Greg Osuri Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs as they discuss Greg's humble begnnings from a rural farm in India to becoming a co-founder and CTO of Angelhack curating a following of 50,000 developers to what is now 100,000.  Greg discusses his newest project, Overclock. Overclock Labs develops tools for automating how companies manage cloud infrastructure so they can save time, costs, and focus on what they’re good at. Using Overclock's DISCO (Distributed Infrastructure for Serverless Computing Operations), a company can integrate multiple cloud service providers together to reduce costs and increase performance. Disco allows customers to seamlessly deploy applications between various Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, IBM SoftLayer, or private clouds at any time, to enjoy the best offerings from all providers. Hear about Overclock's exciting next phase, creating the Photon Network creating an eco-system and community to decentralize enterprise computing aiming to create more efficiencies and performance improvements.

Silcon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Special Guest Sophie Liao, Founder and Managing Partner of Oyster Venture Capital celebrate Chinese New Year  - 新年快乐 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè)!  by discussing the many challenges and rewards of cross border business. Hear how Sophie went from documentary filmmaker to selling her first business which then led to her to becoming a successful venture capitalist (VC). Sophie and Keith discuss Venture Capital and Mergers and Acquistions and how their deep understanding of business goals while balancing that with inherent cultural differences led to their successes in leading cross border M&A projects. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber all have one thing in common... They didn't succeed in China. Find out why and how you can avoid their fate by listening to this show! 

Rebroadcast of one of Silicon Valley Insider's most popular downloads "Off the Blockchain" which gives an overview of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and other blockchain related topics like ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Special Guest Doug Park of the law firm of Park and Dibadj who along with  Keith Koo and Jonathan Ziegler of Guardian Insight Group are focused on helping companies navigate the legal and regulatory compliance landscape. The show gives several stories of companies who hit unexpected regulatory hurdles trying to follow Bitcoin's path to success and how they were able to resolve those types of regulatory challenges. The show also discusses the need to have product design, token design and legal and regulatory considerations embedded in the start-up's business model. Listen to the show to find out more.

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Campsyte CEO/COO & Co-Founder Niki Choo discuss the holistic benefits of working in the great outdoors even in an urban setting like San Francisco or New York. Campsyte's unique approach to "Nature on Demand" for  corporate events, social gatherings and even day-use co-working. Niki discusses her entrepreneurial journey from being a whitewater rafting guide to becoming an investment banker before utlimately connecting her passions of the great outdoors and human development. Stay tuned to find out more about Niki and  Campsyte.

In the wake of the largest crypotcurrency exchange theft in history ($500MM+ from the Japenese exchange Coincheck) - Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith and Special Guest Professor Douglas Park from the law firm of Park and Dibadj speak at length on how to save yourself from FoMO (the Fear of Missing Out) and how it relates to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and altcoins. Keith and Doug explain the basics of cryptocurrency, digital and hard crypto wallets and the difference between a crypotcurrency like Bitcoin and a cryptocurrency exchange. As Doug and Keith recommend "pause and take a deep breath" before jumping into an investment (cryptocurrency) you don't understand. Later in the show Keith and Doug give advice to businesses and startups on how to stay compliant with legal and regulatory landscape and how to get  help in making sure that your business is safe.