Dylan Jardon 🌈

Build your BINGE BANK @ShaanVP @thesamparr @HenryBelcaster

@Archetapp amen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain… except death, taxes and having to work on your app’s onboarding.

@Archetapp brainblast web gonna go so hard

Having some fun with web development lately. The LLMs just kinda crush at it more. Probably more training data I would assume.

@Archetapp let’s gooo. BIG MOVES ONLY

Apartments toured. Lease signed. Officially sticking around another year at least in NYC. Gotta look at all the tech events going on.

@Archetapp J single handedly creating a better desmos 🔥

Turns out building Desmos is pretty complicated… but little by little we’re perfecting our calculator. Added tables and regressions this week.

@emin_builds @Archetapp 👀

@Archetapp That is lovely!! Can the animation have a little rubbery effect going back to top tho?

Should be launching our biggest update in a hot minute tomorrow. Pretty happy with how things are coming along for this home screen.

@AndrewWarner only if they link to the long form

My strategy for growing our YouTube Shorts views: @DylanJardon taught me to look for hot, proven topics and make them my own. I'm an interview-first guy, so I bring up hot topics in my interviews. Then our editors clip them. But there's a problem. 2 problems, actually: 1. Not enough revenue in them 2. They don't lead to long-form views What do you think? Should I invest real time in growing Shorts or move on?

@HenryBelcaster @NicooSvane @businessbarista god only knows

@NicooSvane @businessbarista @DylanJardon Haha we'll see... you'll have to bug @DylanJardon 😂

I’ve generated 4 BILLION lifetime views All because of @businessbarista Well kinda… In 2019, I graduated from Brown with my best friend @DylanJardon. We decide to commit our lives to making videos. The only problem? We were broke as sh*t. But luckily for us, it was the COVID pandemic. So Uncle Sam was giving out free money to anyone with a pulse. And because we were broke and nobody was allowed to work together in-person, we started looking for our video editing team overseas. It turns out, these were the best video editors in the world: Filipinos. So we took the $2,470/mo we were receiving in unemployment checks, set aside the bare minimum for food, and invested every last cent into building an overseas content-editing-battalion. And to our surprise…! 0 views. Ya, no one watched our podcast. Okay, sh*t. This is going to take 10 years… And now the Pandemic’s over, so no more free Government cash. So we’ve got to think… Think, we did. We took everything we learned about finding, training, and screening our overseas video editing team. And spun up Clipt – a staffing agency that helps Fortune 500s, startups, and creators hire overseas video editors to save tons of money too. Our editors made… - Videos for the @myfirstmilpod - Clips for the @theallinpod guys - A Netflix special for Hasan Minhaj - Animations for @naval - Book quotes for Will Smith - Product releases for @jimmyfallon - YouTube Shorts for @AliAbdaal But then there was an intervention… Enter Alex Leiberman (co-founder of Morning Brew). He’s like: “If you say content is so important, why aren’t you guys viral yourselves?” Great point, Alex. In creating for other people, we had forgotten about our own content. We weren’t practicing all the things we preached. So we spin up a YouTube channel. Start making videos explaining nerdy stuff in a fun way. And boom! 1 year later, we generated 1 billion views. Fast forward to today and we’ve done 4 BILLION views, now helping Fortune 500’s & enterprise companies build their video engines too. So thank u @businessbarista <3

@Archetapp welcome, chef

Back to work tomorrow. Was a good week and a half off. Now back to cooking. 👨‍🍳

@noahkagan @buchi_yt real answer: didn't love the game

@buchi_yt Had a kid.

I wonder what really happened to this creator. How does someone build a multimillion-view channel and then just leave it like that? It almost feels like something serious must have happened.

@zachpogrob consumer vs b2b

I used to say X mattered to me more than IG- but since launching Aura both feel the same Users are all that matter

@Archetapp just getting started baby 🤘

~300 users 10,000 SAT math question done in one week. Wild. People seem to like the new update. Just getting started. 🤘

@Archetapp ROAD TRIP BABY

Tomorrow starts the long drive to NYC. 🫡

Best invention ever

@zachpogrob @rachcorrine joy max

@rachcorrine sounds like @DylanJardon

Single guys need to be joy maxxing. Hanging with friends. Grilling. Lifting weights. Eating steaks. Enjoying a hobby. Grabbing beers. Hitting on girls. Getting rejected (the right one won’t). Laughing about it. Wood working. Side hustling. Reading. Learning niche facts. Locking in. Working hard. Just fully living and enjoying their lives. It’s very attractive when you love your life. It’s very attractive when your life is full. Law of attraction baby. You attract what you are.

@jonathanzliu hire @HenryBelcaster

how does one even begin to find a video editor who can do this 😭

@Archetapp verci is pet friendly if you wanna take a few with ;)

Been housesitting for my parents for a bit. Unexpectedly had some chicks come while I was here. 😅 Then it’s off to Tahoe for a few days. Then driving from Utah to NYC. Busy time, but I’m super excited for NYC. Gonna be working in office for the first time ever lol. 🤘

@Archetapp @shadcn WE LIVING BABY

@shadcn I’ve been the opposite really. Only real time in my life I don’t work weekends and still get everything done within reasonable work hours. Been able to focus more on living.

Every friend I talk to is overworked since AI. Working weekends. Always on their phone prompting. Kinda sad.

@_sonith such a cool idea. i wanna see it happen

The original idea for Periscope was to “rent someone’s eyes and ears.” Drop a pin anywhere in the world, put up a bounty, and pay someone to show you what’s happening there in real time. “If I wanted someone to go walk me through a real estate tour for a house in the South Bay, but I'm in Marin right now, I'll pay 50 bucks… We wanted to make it as flexible as possible and leave the fulfillment of the bounty up to the marketplace.”

Your phone fires 30,000 infrared dots at your face every time you unlock it. But how does this light recognize…your face? Take a quick look at your phone, specifically the black notch toward the top, near the camera. Apple calls this system TrueDepth. Eight components packed into that little black notch, all firing in the fraction of a second it takes you to glance down. One of those components: the dot projector. It…projects dots. 30,000 in a fraction of a second, every time you need to open your phone. So FaceID isn’t taking a picture of your face. It's building a 3D map of it. The dot projector casts 30,000 infrared dots across your features, and because your face has contours, those dots distort in predictable ways. The infrared camera reads that distortion and reconstructs the geometry of your face in three dimensions. Remember when you had to roll your head around during phone setup? The 3D model gets compared to the mathematical face print you created during setup. This process uses a TON of data, but it happens so fast. How? Apple built a dedicated chip specifically to run this. The Neural Engine inside the A-series processor handles the face-matching math at a speed and security level the main CPU couldn't manage alone. And your face data never leaves your device. It lives in something called The Secure Enclave [*oooooh, ahhhh*], which is an isolated processor that even the operating system can't read. This system has an error rate of roughly 1 in 1,000,000. Touch ID is 1 in 50,000. All of that, before you've finished picking up your phone!

@_sonith @kayvz @dickc @elonmusk listening now 🔥

My conversation with @kayvz, co-founder of Macroscope and Periscope. We talk about selling for $120M pre-launch to @dickc at Twitter, turning down @elonmusk, getting trolled by Kobe Bryant and much more. His family immigrated to the Bay Area from Iran and he grew up an aspiring filmmaker. With a push from his mom, however, he toured and eventually got admitted to Stanford. This led to a series of software startups with his best friends and eventual acquisitions from Blackboard and Twitter. He led product there and eventually (graciously) turned down Elon to co-found Macroscope. Kayvon is an incredible storyteller, family man, & product mind. And while his accomplishments are many, he's an even better person. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 1:54 Fleeing the Iranian Revolution to California 4:32 How Gaming Sparked a Career in Tech 8:28 Growing Up With 12 Kids 12:32 Pissing Off an Apple Exec with a Jailbroken iPhone 4:29 From a Cardboard Sign to Winning Emmys 19:20 Building Software While Skipping Class 20:53 Selling $100k Apps to Best Buy & HP 22:32 Getting Acquired Over a Spam Call 27:03 The Importance of Passion 34:21 The Origins of Periscope 39:20 Scott Belsky Invented "Teleportation" 43:20 Six Months of Failed Designs 47:33 Selling to Twitter Before Launching 54:07 Trolled by Kobe Bryant 57:41 Turning Down Elon Musk 01:01:54 Founding Macroscope 01:10:21 His Two Most Consequential Life Decisions