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[음악] Good morning morning and Welcome to TECH onle network I extrem excited to Be Your h today this lightstone You can listen to us on j.org or na.com we are streaming live right now at ns.com and AS always We are proud to be sponsored by friends atama Camera much more than just a camera Store Please check them out online at adorama.com or visit them in person at 42 West 18th street uh Today is really a day That We've been looking forward to for quite a while I think We've had this now in the Works maybe F five si weeks uh we got snow m and out a couple of weeks ago I think post Super bowl it's okay I was no m to be social again as a broncos FAN It was a fairly tough day for me uh but missed having you guys just having had the chance to catch up with you now in studio the last 15 20 minutes You guys are Awesome everything that yeshiva University is all about We have four guests with us this morning adam moa from Queens a sophmore yu Michael leeman with two ends from the five towns a Junior um Jeremy goldstein also from the five towns also a Junior and just for some depth to show that yu doesn't just attract one type of student We have SH Morrison From bergenfield which I believe is the foreign town of New Jersey uh also a Junior at yu We're very excited to have you guys this morning in order to rotate to make Sure that uh We've Got everybody around while the conversation will hopefully be free flowing and have a chance to speak to everybody we probably Switch The seats a little bit that way We can see each other show y Of Your Way over there and It's nice to have you Good morning guys How are you Thanks for having US Thank you for Thank you for coming on Thank you for adjusting your schedules on president's day Which uh is there school today There is why has school today Okay good so I don't know If you have to write notes anymore for College probably not If you're old enough to start your own company you don't need to be written out of anything but uh but sheer whatever else you're you're missing this morning I'm Sure there'll be an opportunity to make up additional time in sader so again Good morning Welcome to the naam seal network you are on TECH talk and one of the most exciting things about TECH talk is we have a chance to speak to young anding entrepreneur people familiar with technology and I think we have a Of A Show set up for you today so start sort of with you adam you seem to be sitting right Next To Me and uh and have a connection to all of our other guests here so uh welcome just tell us How you got involved with entrepreneurship so I was in Hotel and it was the night Before I was submitting a project to intel and apa one of my my submission file was on one of my clouds I could find it 10 minutes Before The deadline eventually I But I was very frustrated and I never forgot that frustration perfect timing Dean Michael st reached out to me I was only a perspective student at yu at that time and He said hey adam you have any ideas and I did and since that day I've been working on my idea called clarified I've been very involved in the tech entrepreneurial startup scene and de was really the one that opened my eyes to the fact that If you have an idea or you have a frustration you could actually do something about it you could actually create a company out of it um and since then you know I've involved myself AS much as I possibly could in the entrepreneurial scene atu trying little bit and that's when other people started coming to me with their ideas and now I have a few Partners few really great Partners Jeremy and Mike right here we working on a project tick finity Which telling about really soon We're going adam you are like any entrepreneur seven Steps ahead of me which is incredibly exciting I got lost I didn't get lost But I got intrigued with with a side point that that you said what were you working on in hotel that has to do with intel and and was afternoon me through How that in High School I to drs and They were very very helpful they provided mentors fors for People who wanted to dos like intel westing house competition they they actually provided a time during the day where you have a 45 minut period And you can focus on a project for submission and that time was instead of a class yes yes once a week once a week they let you take last period inad of going to class and you able to go to the intel class Ok And in intel How did you get involved with that why were you excited about that you I just like the intel competion i personally interested in psychology and I you know I wanted to do a psch paper um the paper that I did was called uh correlation of dissociative capacity to personality traits and learning Styles how can Your Eyes Define you um I got involved in that because I you know I used to do Magic shows and one of the things that I noticed When I was doing A hypnosis Show on stage is I didn't like having to call people up and then kicking you know 15 of the 20 people off and then do the show on five people it didn't look clean uh I wanted it to seem really random that hypnosis could be done on anyone so I thought to to you know sort of Reverse engineer the psychy you started entrepreneurialism before you knew that youting entre you said and get in a minute because I think that's a phenomenal Add to you since I've been there and I To focus and successful came out to be a very very cool Pro um we correlated the we correlated the biological indicator of the hand and the capacity and then we further correlated toar learning sty it actually has educational application the point of the study is that a teacher you know for educational purposes there business purposes there Magic purposes there therapeutic purposes but the educational purpose which is actually what we submitted the paper AS educational psychology is a teacher can go around ask his or her students to clasp their hands and roll Their Eyes Which takes you you 30 seconds per kid Record Which TY students information so is my class more is the majority of the class visual learners are they oral learners are they kinesthetic learners and they can Now are they social learners solitary learners so How can I convey the information best should they work in groups should They not work in groups should I bring in a model of the atom or is just a visual presentation enough and you did this With You said teammates no that that I did by myself with with significant in mentors so That's phenomenal and and I think those who Listen TECH talk understand that one of the Words that we hear oftentimes From from real entrepreneurs and and what I would call leaders is uh It's difficult to lead without Having a mentor and and it Sounds like that started all the way back in in high school and and a big shout out to drs for having provided not only the time in order to be able to do that apparently last period but also the mentorship in order to be able to make that happen I know what I used to do during last period in school baset sks is where I spent a significant of time but so That's exting so you in the process of submitting this paper paper while you in Israel 10 minutes Before The deadline Ok And It was stored on in the Cloud one of my clouds one of your clouds Okay so Now we get to what we wanted to talk about you then found a challenge you couldn't Find itse You have many clouds people have many clouds Yes If you have a gmail you have a Google Drive most people have a drop box and since box promotion most people also have a box as I have a box I have anded about that so so you tried to to turn in a paper the timing with 10 minutes to go didn't work out very well and then you eventually found it You turned it in Yes Did you hear back from intel no I didn't get into intel But I did get into API Which was OD considering on for postle graduates and students people confused you sweater andet of poate program but apa apa is the American psychological association they have an annual Convention where they host poster board sessions where College graduates can post their work can present their work and hopefully get picked up by phd see I'm curious about something this has nothing to do with what We're talking about so We're going to pivot back to where We're at in a second is this type of assessment that essentially you're creating this this baseline for what type of learner Somebody is is that adapted in Any of the current education technology solution No I never took it any further than the paper pending publication We had some pretty interesting educational technolog on board If you want after the show I'd be more than excited to to introduce you for those people out there who are listening and are intrigued by that component Let's give adam an opportunity to give sort of his his call info you have to check out his Resume What's your website ad.com a m.com m.com way that people are promoting themselves It's called a vcard the idea is called a vcard a virtual business card right now you someone a business card it just says your name and they can email you for more information This is a way for them to really check out who you are before they get to talk to you It's Awesome If you haven't seen this You should for Sure go check this out So it's exciting ok so then you had to yu um and you have since your time in hota were you trying to figure out this challenge or you sort of had in the back burner and then and then no since since the call I realized That It was you know it was really a tangible possibility to create something thing and you know It's difficult but there is a road to it and It has been paved Before I was working very hard in hot i gave myself certain amount of hours a month So that I could learn But I could also continue to develop the idea uh I was sketching I was researching I was I was dealing with um some software developers to create some spec and feasibility studies for the uh for the for the idea of clarified uh so Yeah so it once you start You really can't stop There's no you know putting it on hold for a month two months or a year you got to Keep going so now here's a great opportunity to introdu cled no Excuse me noed I apologize clouded IS IS Let's finish the clarified idea for a moment so explain to our audience What does clouded do if you have Google Drive and youve got box and youve got dropified is a Cloud aggregate program It's a cl It's a Cloud aggregate platform you bring all your clouds together you go cled you log on Google Drive Dropbox box Once That's it after you log things you have onei login for all your clouds you log in and you forget the fact that you have multiple clouds That's the point ofed Don't remember that this is on box or this is on Dropbox or this is on Google these are your files that are stored in the Cloud ok so Now let us Google Drive to the best my knowledge is free probably not unlimited storage Right So That's also one of the cool things that cl does you're limited to storage you're limited to 2 gab 5 gab 10 gab you're also limited in terms of bandwidth So one of the things that wanted to do is we really make it seem like your clouds are linked we don't just want it to look like it We want it to act like it So And this is going to get a bit technical but If you log into 25 free GIGABYTE clouds Can you upload a 6 gab document great Question the answer is usually no cuz you have five and five You Can't Get something That's over either one of those but What clarified is going to do clarified is going to partition the file for you upload the respective parts to each Cloud and to You itl just seem like one big file you could even share It so I Don't Care What's happening in the background That's background for me as the consumer youve provided of use anded correct correct it it also helps in terms of Band issues um box only let you upload Let's say 300 meges and drop box 500 or vice versa Can you get a 700 Meg file up there no but with us You can we partition it put 500 here 200 here and all of a sudden You Beat the Band with issue that sounds incredible how do we find more about clouded so Right Now we took down our informational website because We're renovating it a little bit but soon You'll Be able to go to cl.com for more information US C ly.com we going with fy F fyd for the fight Okay that'll be a Theme of the show as as We're figuring out as as adam is a common denominator to a lot of what We're talking about here um I want to introduce the rest of the guest buse I want US talk about the environment in why you also clarified sounds really incredible I know um so many people are having these challenges keeping everything in one place and and keeping it organized and you know and I don't know whether it addresses this challenge but Let's assume that I've got something loaded in one of the the drives and not in another one of the drives and I'm looking for it Like You said it sort of the point is that you won't think of your clouds separate drives anymore That's the real goal everything all your files will just appear to you right there you can categorize them so If you have multiple documents from different clouds You can put them Into The category documents You can then use those files in other scenarios because You'll Be able to access the files while on the Internet no what platform you're on That's Awesome you are listening to TE on network lightstone is me and I your host You can listen to us on j.org or na.com we are excited to be sponsored by our friends at adorama Camera more than just a camera Store Please check them out online at adorama.com or visit them in person at 42 West 18th street Please know that starting next week the JM The AM annual fundraising marathon begins Monday the 24th of February and people can even begin to pledge now at j.org com for those who are fans and listeners to this show and all the other phenomenal programming on ns.com and JM The AM uh Please make Take an opportunity to go to the website and and to participate to make Sure that that we stay on the air and continue to improve and and grow our programming it's really for me a personal uh privilege and pleasure to be here on the naam seagle network Okay so I've got a couple of uh of lman uh I'm not really from the five towns But I certainly currently live there and It's exciting to recognize some familiar faces Michael le from the five towns a Junior at yiv University welcome Thank you good to be here nice to have you and Jeremy goldstein also from the five towns a Junior also at yiv University Thank you for coming on Thank you for having US so We're excited about having you um How did you guys meet adam that Seems To Be The first Question we actually went to high school with adam so we you know we go back uh you know like about five six years So we went to Camp together before that too and we went to Camp together That's also so Camp friends uh also went to drs um and uh were you guys working on projects Back In high school or this is no this you know we just started this you know since like the summer so we referenced this mik Why don't you tell me what this is so our company is called TECH finity It's a platform where season ticket holders and people with season with ticket packages can upload their tickets onto our website and get credit based off the dollar amount of their tickets and Now with the credit they receive they can Now go on to our pool and browse through the different Games that we have and reserve any game that They want at their own convenience so it used to be that you're limited to just your n tickets their team and their schedule and Now once you upload your tickets and you receive credits you now have Access to go to any game you want at your own convenience at any time that work best for you so that Seems To Be interesting We're going to talk about What that means From A specific so have your Minds rolling on on Give me an example of of what would potentially be in a minute did this come out of you guys Having a problem were you challenged are you a tick holder actually this whole thing kind of happened by accident um you know Mike and I We were Just Like You know debating on whether to you know invest in uh season ticket you know season tickets for like the yankees and um after talking about it for like 5 minutes we came to the conclusion that you know as a season ticket holder you're actually like very limited um what I mean by that is you know like Michael said you know you you have Access to one to one team you know their specific schedule and the main is that you know with 81 home you the UN tickets you up everyone you try to sell them and make money from that the issue is is you know I personally buy and sell tickets On My Own and you know I usually Manage to 10 listings at a time and um That's you know that actually takes up a lot of time so I can't even Imagine How much maning tickets can solve all these issues How can we take away you know the time of managing the tickets How can we give each user Access to all their favorite sports teams inste of just one and uh That's why we you know we thought of tick finity where we can you know solve all those issues so if I'm a nyx FAN for a moment and But I'm out of town and I want to go to a nuggets game is that I'm in Denver That's I mean That's the plan we plan on starting you know testing it in the TR State area the nine teams but eventually That's exactly you know That's exactly the goal you know you could be in Miami on vacation and You To The heat You can on and hit reserve and all have have tickets To The heat part since it's in a pool It's instant as soon as you hit reserve it appears in your email it appears in your app You can do it on the way to the game reserve a ticket show the barcode on your phone Walk in ok That was going to be to the next thing because one of the cool advances in technology is I remember being a long time Denver bronco season ticketer that if Somebody were to buy your ticket and I remember not going to a game I guess That was and MA tye EX isue another Thing is also The Money issue all these secondary market sites stubhub they all take 15% off the bat so here putting your tickets up You don't have to Manage it You don't have worry about You know people taking a piece of your sale And You just get instant credit of what you paid you You don't have spend doing that you paid and getting exact what credit for what you paid for Which makes a lot of sense but the question is is that at the end of the day and for those People who Follow the Super bowl it always Seems To Be One of the more interesting statistics after the Super bowl What was the average cost of the ticket and they try to minimize what the secondary market is etc That's the only fun fact after How many chicken wings were consumed on that Sunday That's actually a fairly terrifying statistic that they normally t but uh um tickets aren't necessarily worth what you paid for them so How do you account for that take that um well We were originally thinking of making it based off of market value so If you have a ticket uh Let's say the NX against The heat It's going to be a lot more demand for that game and you would think to make the tickets more expensive but what we decided to do was to keep our system based off of face value to keep it Absolutely fair the entire time cuz otherwise You can run into some confusion and subjectivity based off of our valuation of the game some people may think it's worth more some people may think it's worth less so if we Keep it at face value it stays fair forever sometimes There's going to be An advantage you got you know you got lesser tickets that out to be much more valuable but it works in both ways so we think that mediate out I'd have to imagine there is a group of people that will enjoy the simplicity involved with that That's the go use you wind up with people waiting I wanted to sell my Super bowl tickets at $300 but it only got to $100 and I never had that chance and maybe those tickets were maximized now I understand the Super bowl is exception iag doesn't work for those Olympic tickets and but If I am a season what you said pretty much It's our Target our Target you know main two targets are people that are you know big sports fans not just one specific team are you know We're not really focusing on the people that are buying as an investment that are trying to sell and make money That's not really our Target market It's more of someone That's you know big yankees nck giant ranger FAN that they're not going to pay for sets of season tickets and a lot of their tickets go to waste so this way they you know they pay for one and they you know spend it AS They want OK Go ahead also on a corporate level If you think about it um you have let say a big firm they have nyx season tickets right and they go to their client and say Oh what game Do you want to go to and happens to be that the client not a nyx FAN so Now with tick finity these firms can upload their tickets and Now Go straight to the client and say what game you want And what time Works best for you and then you have it If you think about it You can even make a personal account for each of your clients they Can you know log in under your corporate username and just reserve the game themselves so they can choose whatever the market will allow for them and will show Up All eligible opportunities that they would want to go to whatever in the pool they can reserve That's really interesting And also obviously techfin is not going to be limited to just sports We want to take it everywhere Anything That requires a venue Anything That is a venue that requires ticket for access We can do Okay I want to drill down into that in a couple minutes you are listening to TECH talk on the NA network I'm your host lightstone You can listen to us on j.org or na.com special treat today although Now We've done this a couple of different times We're streaming live.com so Wave home uh to your family hopefully um AS uh always We are proud to be sponsored by friends at adorama Camera more than just a camera Store Please check them out online at adorama.com or visit them in person at 42 West 18th street just as a reminder for everybody Listening at home that the JM the manual fundraising marathon begins next week and people can even begin pledging today at j.org or onle We are here with some really exciting guests We've Got adam that we had a chance to speak about clouded and his Partners in the second company Michael leeman and Jeremy goldstein in tick finity How is tick finity up on the web yet Yes You can go to tefincom to learn more about it okay spell tick finity for those of us out there who might have an extra K or an extra n like Michael leeman at the end t i c k f i.com So you can check that out at ti.com and to me I guess in the New York others that might outen opportunity out there I'm curious I want to talk about revenue model I want to talk about how you're funding and all those things But I also want to drill down the one common denominator that all of you have is yiv University where we were talking offline that I think We've Got two accounting majors and two Finance majors and my favorite response Where are you inu right now I think I'm a sore i love the I think I'm a sore And for those People who think that maybe That's tong and it's really not There's a phenomenal advantage University where really not limited by the age in the semester and a lot of the confusion gets inuse I assume you took ap classes and right right and the whole new schedule the new curriculum new curriculum and then you're in Israel and Now the sats have 2400 points I'm saying life life has gotten complicated used to be pretty simple you knew what you did and uh and you knew where you were at but But I think life gets more interesting the more nuances involved and has aend am nuan andal place to limited throw scho that you throws throws off everything met upper freshmen who graduated TWICE and like higher seniors that have a phd but don't have a College diploma I'm saying It's an exciting place to be um how it to be an entrepreneur If You look at accounting and Finance those are not two degrees that necessarily associated with entrepreneurship let just for the sake of simplicity let with micha you know sort Tell me what you feel the environ like ur so certainly it seems like it be difficult to balance working on your own company having curriculum and all that um but what my partner told Me If You really love something and believe in it You make it happen so even though I have a test the next day I'm still coming here and I'm still working onity you know I have um a crazy meeting one night and go all and have a test next day and make make work done have done that really is matter what it takes you to get it done Okay I guess It's difficult to cancel board meetings because we have like a you know final tomorrow you know make sense but you hear a lot about young buding entrepreneurs in in numerous different colleges and you hear about the dropouts The company became to all consuming and then Let's be frank yiv University has a very demanding curriculum a dual curriculum at that um you know Jeremy What's it like being able to balance all three things and We're not even talking about whether We have social are we going to get into that I think think mich pretty much that you pretty you know Yeah there curriculum doing in the morning and then you have your classes in the afternoon but you know like He said If you're If you're really into something and you're focused you know you make time for it We've had nights where literally we went to like 5 in the few those so you know It's hard but It's definitely doable If you have an interest in that EX andan are in school you are doing doing jud that or You always sort that I really have to be some Yeah See your mind is kind of in a lot of places but at the same time It's kind of good training for you know being busy being able to handle you know doing a lot of things so I think it's helpful I see you more or less Answer the question Where do you do it You just cut out sleep Which you know I guess makes a fair am of sensee lot of coffee that also makes a fair am of sense but from being distracted you know AS You're The common denominator involved with a lot of different things How do you do that are you ever actually in one place and I just got married Oh Hey Now tough now I understand the desire to work really hard um I do i do kind of Feel like There's a lot going on but like my partner said if It's important you make time for it um I I don't feel necessarily that I'm being pulled in many different directions because when I'm focused on something I'm focused on something and if something else needs my focus right now then I Switch focuses as opposed to feeling like I'm in two places the that we had on may or weeks AG mention something that far for me provide advice to guys doing so many different things but it's really important in life to focus and to differentiate between What's urgent and What's important and when you have the ability to Manage that Which it Sounds like you guys are excelling in that uh then you can add the things AS they come up and at the end of the day you never get less busy never found that with Somebody I guess maybe with a successful exit and you want to take a vacation for a little bit but but busy people tend to be busy you know the ageage that you want to get something done go to the guy Who's already doing so much Which might be exactly why you guys are involved with uh with all Let's talk for a couple more minutes about tick finity If you don't mind what What's the revenue model how how do you guys ultimately make money so It's very interesting our our revenue model actually is another benefit of the consumer uh What happens IS IS Let's say you say you have Nick tickets right And you put them in the pool and There's a game to against the bobcats and no in the pool reserves it So what our syst do is tickets and then give you actually cut sale we not only Do you have this Access to you know all these different tickets to different Games you also have opportunity to actually make money from this also without doing anything It's benefit right it Sounds like How many of these People who are season ticket holders especially in New York maybe a corporate perk or maybe something else like that Don't even think that Oh sho got a game now I got to do something with the tickets you' already anticipated that exact and you know times tickets get reserved and you know thinking ack the end of theth with you know extra money you don't think aate March matchup in between theck and the bobcats is going to be really and I was going to say maybe that's a perfect example because it's not highlight maybe clients From from charlot Or whever else It would be who do Circle that but if there aren't possibility that taken care Yeah whatever It is there are going to be game We can't anticipate every single game getting reserved so you know We're just going to use that as a revenue stream and You know You know big added bonus users well you essentially careful with the language So don't assume that I'm saying anything legal over here but ticket broker I mean you you not a ticket broker but you traded in the commodities of tickets Yeah exactly exactly so I you know have a little bit of experience on and How that Works so That's you know That's what I plan on actually doing and and that that has real value and that's uh That's exciting um when it sold let say it doesn't get sold for the face value even a less attractive game How does that work That's we don't think That's such a big problem because you know you're onity for for like the main reason of you know having Access to that so The Money Thing is all just extra and added bonus so What happens is It's a lot easier for us to sell the tickets Because if the lowest uh you know price in that section is you know 00 we put it at $9 to ensure the sale Because the money like we said is just an added just an added bonus for everyone so it might be the revenue model which is hopefully going to you make the wheels in company which is from consum perspective I'm joining a club That's really What it is I want to have Access to providing and Hey If I Get paid to have that access I'm not going to complain about that correct you you have Access to huge benefits to huge sweeping benefits that allow you to enjoy sports much more because you you know you're less restricted so if we also tell you that we just completely unrestricted you added tons of value to all of your tickets and We're also paying you you know what would you think probably too good to be But I also wouldn't think that you guys can accomplish everything that you guys do in a given day so i'm willing to bet on the fact that itl probably work but if I'm a ticket purchaser I should also Be going to tefincom is that correct no We AS of Now We're actually going to be using using a secondary market like stubhub to sell the tickets Ah Okay So that makes very So when I'm in tick finity i'm now associating only with my credits and what it can purchase for my additional Games Like You said It's a club and you've taken and you've taken the sales part It does happen in my club right all of our tickets get used Right So I sell it and you wind up with with a bonus that uh that that happens on the side That's very interesting Go ahead Michael but eventually we certainly would like to add that to our system I mean for now until we get a bigger user base we'll work through stub in terms of selling the tickets but eventually Once We have a big user base We can definitely sell through our platform itself Right So it's a volume game obviously If you sell on your platform you don't have enough purchasers You're not going to be able to provide that added value or the necessary revenue to make this happen sitting in the room with some really incredible yiv University students adam Michael lean Jeremy goldstein and morris and We're going to bring shan in just a couple more minutes I want to figure out a little bit more about tick finity and uh find out when the Denver teams are coming to town which is exciting You're listening to TECH talk on the naam network your host lightstone You can listen to us on j.org or na.com AS always We are proud to be sponsored by friends Camera more than just a camera them online.com visit them in at 42 West 18 We are being streamed live Right now.com So come and check out our really Awesome guest uh and remember that next week we start the annual fundraising for JM The AM that marathon begins on Monday the 24th of February You can go Right now to j.org rs.com and make a pledge you do not need to wait so I would encourage everybody out there to take advantage of that opportunity and to do so so that technical sphere How does that happen so you know I have familiarity with coding I'm able to code able to program but not to you know not to significant level um I think what important for the people on the operation side of the business while It's not AS important to know how to code it is important really to understand the code So that When you have a conversation with your Developer you can have a conversation on their level to really understand their needs what you need to prov them with to really help them with their job so they can provide the best Quality platform for you so none of us you know code professionally you know the tick finity website Okay I coded That but in terms of the platform in terms of the program Yeah you usually need to bring on a technical advisor um Which we have so you You Went out to go get like a cto or they're not really the cto adam you're serving as the cto I'm I'm sort of serving as a cto i would prefer the cto of someone who really knows how to program and We're looking for someone on that end right now but nevertheless We have started development Okay so you've begun the development Now We've had on guest in the past and I I've been preaching this I think Since the second show that I've been on that that learning to code and understanding programming is is functional literacy for the next uh for the next generation of students and you guys are that generation of students did something Did you have an opportunity of exposure to this in high school Not at allad If I can go back to like eth grade um you know I definitely you know want to learn how to code because I think it's very important and every you know new company needs someone who who knows how to do that and even If you don't end up as the coder It's extremely beneficial to be able to understand the code It's a level of fluency It's like going to a foreign country negotiating not knowing any the langage Absolutely we always say that elementary school should Now have a required class teaching kids how to code because It's definitely As time goes on It's going to be the most important skill you could possibly have at least Open up the opportunity for the kids to get bitten by the bug you know you don't know Who's going to be the best coder you don't know if every kid is going to be interested and frankly you don't know if every kid is going to be a good Developer and Developer is you know being a good Developer It's not just a skill it really is an internal you know It's a con ability um so at least to expose kids who might be really good developers and who can it could really benefit them it could really benefit The company uh it just opens their opportunities ok so I think as as a side point if we can launch a new company Right Here I think that to code with There was the hour to code and WE Spoke about that a while ago to go back to AR shivas to go back to the high schools to go back to the middle schools and the Elementary schools and and they should be holding you up AS role models in this but you should also be making those recommendations I'm assuming they're All Listening on the air nobody has school today in honor of president's day so while while all the principles who don't normally have time to listen to us on a Monday at 10 a.m. are listening Now uh we would encourage urge your schools to get much more involved in in the realm of programming and I would personally like to say I would be very happy to come in and explain this to them and come in and be a personal you know be a personal Like You said That would and out ofos Where do most your programmers come from artin I was going to say It's very rare I thought maybe while you in Israel you found a programmer they have phenomenal coders obviously there but it seems like the code world is is not in North America no It's not um the north American coding world is extremely expensive It's very very important to have a team here that can Manage the coding whether It's here india apparently There's a bunch of cers afghanistan I just but you know while you end up having toce You really have someone here that understands the code Okay so We're going to take a not a brief break but as I give sort of the signal ID for the station I'm going to ask char if You'll jump over into one of the uh one of the seats over here So we can go a little bit further with that and and Michael and Jeremy Don't Run away We're going to have an opportunity to sort of conclude with some of the ideas going on here yiv University what It's like with Dean stra um you know sort of the Positive encouragement that they've get also hopefully some of the the plans for successful exits that I'm Sure that you guys are working on but We're also happy to have uh with us this morning SH of morison who expands our horizon coming from all the way bergenfield New Jersey welcome shov Thank you for having me It's been a good show I've been a listener Now it's really interesting to just to hear you know I've spoken to um adam about tick a little bit this is the first time I'm really getting the full picture of it So It's just been very informative for me th Far and I believe you mentioned prior to the show that you're a big yankee fan Yeah I'm a big yankee FAN looking forward to uh watching DK jer go out uh in some style Somebody Somebody mentioned that you know the Twitter ver sort of exploded when he announced his uh his retirement at the end of this year uh for the value of the tickets Just another shout out to tick finity um The Value of the tickets for his last hom stand I think uh rose I think 4 500% uh in value at that point in time I imagine yankees tickets as a whole uh increased in value uh for this year have been a good season It would have been a great season to be a season ticket holder for the yankees onity right certainly would and those those great season ticket holders that are out there and you know you're not going to make all 81 home Games make Sure that you get value for those tickets by checking out ti.com Okay so SH you've joined tick finity which is exciting um You are a sophmore at yiv University does that mean last year you at Hotel uh Yeah the past Two years I was at Hotel the past Two years at Hotel and Did you get the entrepreneurship bug there beforehand or You just landed in So it's interesting um ied with adam last year so I just sort of like a spectator Looking In like all of a sudden like he just coming up to the room withs of contracts and stuff always being care to put him face down CU you know he hadn't had any his patents yet so like so we were just talking on the side he couldn't Tell me exactly what he was doing but it just seemed really interesting and then you know as He was able to talk about it more we started discussing it and then I kind of started thinking about you know the own problem that I was experiencing you know relative problems you know technology um to come up with something myself because I really wanted to be part and really solving you know some of these everyday inconveniences that People have right I think That's an important thing a lot of people think that to start a company It's got to be an earth shattering problem that you're addressing and uh most of the time It's not I mean If you're looking at you know second year in Israel You don't have a lot of Major problems going on you know I'm saying It's Almost sort of painted AS one of those ideal uh environments to be in uh yet you found something over the course of the time there that uh that you thought can make people's life easier and even addressing a small problem multiplied over tens of millions of people can turn into quite a lucrative uh business so Okay so How did you guys get together on what We're Now calling simplified simplified right We're back with uh with that them and uh and so Tell me a little bit about simplified If you don't mind so I guess the way I got into It is um I attended uh the suits optional entrepreneurship club the initial meeting just to kind of hear you know just about what entrepreneur is the entrepreneurial process Which I believe adam you're the founder of the suit optional suit suit optional Which Which I like I didn't even know any entrepreneurs we suits That's pretty That's the point That's I like it good so suit optional you went to that goad and then it kind of motivated me to start thinking about meaning the Theme was is that everyone has an idea the C you've ever been in the shower you have an idea so it start thinking about ok so like there been things that i' been thinking about for a while now how can I take that and make something tangible out of it So what I decided to you know Look into explore a little more was calendars and scheduling you know most of us by Now have smartphones and smartphones come with built-in calendars but Unfortunately they're not optimized for simplicity If you're looking at you know you Pull out your iPhone you Pull out your Android phone you're looking at maybe a couple hours at a time you see a title of event you have to click through many menus in order to find out all the information about your event Sure so I envisioned is a way that you can Pull up your event in one simple View see at least 12 hours at a time and and and that you to kind of get a sense of what you need to Do As you talking about before What's the urgent tasks What are the less urgent tasks and from there kind of be able to successfully plan you know talking all these busy schedules something That's vitally important so a need you're doing so many different things you need to know where you're at And what to it seems like said in Add to the calendaring it there To Do List agenda component to that As well Yeah It's all together meaning there will be a GD that will have the calendar and then on the bottom There's going to be something called unscheduled tasks there things you know you need to do you just don't know when exactly you need to do them so this will do is it allow you you know It's 300 in the afternoon What Do I need to do you can see you know today tomorrow What time do I have Where can I squeeze in you know this phone call to my lawyer or anything else or you know you need to buy something for your son any type of event that requires some sort of time you can sort of figure out what you need to do and then sort of Fit it in from there and it won just be that you can figure it out what the calendar is actually going to do is If It sees a Dead space in your calendar notices you know notices you have 45 minutes free and you have a task that you scheduled for 45 minutes so the calendar can suggest to you hey you want to get that done Now That's great itl actually begin to give you the feedback that you need in order to maxim the efficiency of your day cor you guys the scre LG weather.com the weather the we so snows every daying I to know You know from tomorrow morning when I'm driving upstate what the weather is going to be like there and it can Give me that hourly View of those 12 hours and that gives me a perspective that sort of what you're talking about bringing to scheduling Right So our goal was If you like like said If you Bring up a calendar on iPhone or Android right now um you can see may S hours maybe even less uh And You certainly Can't See the breakup of What's going on in those hours you have to maybe squint to see the title of the event it doesn't work so what we wanted to do is we wanted to while you know we still We're not going to create a bigger phone How can we maxim the interface of the phone So that you can see all of your day but not just all of your day the breakup of each individual hour uh There's also going to be a day View where you can see your entire day and see Which hours are more full or less we we have presets on the bottom that customiz and suggested so If you need to make a phone call Why do you have to type in call shov why can't you just drag up something that already has call built in And You just have to write his name we color code those presets So you can at a glance say Hey I have a phone call coming up or I have a lunch meeting with someone That's really interesting and when Where did this idea get ITS Genesis What was The Beginning of this idea um really It's just from AS you're talking about before just trying to balance juggle dual curriculum juggle you know social work there a lot me all accessing that event you know it Almost didn't help me it Almost made me less organized by attempting to organ the goal is to organ in a way that the Mind is actually thinking about in a way that you know helps people as opposed to just being another thing Oh I add this to my calendar wait Now let me togg through all menm anent ando allent you got make it asle and easy as possible and I like the concept of swiping to me seems like most calendar that I've encountered were built for the original blackberry right it seems that It was it doesn't maximize the efficiency of of the coolest and newest Apps that are out there Absolutely and and one of the you know like was saying one of the things that also to integrate was the reminders you you have a t you need to do something you you need to do something You just don't know when You're going to do it So How Can you make Sure that the calendar also brings that in How Can you make Sure since a task requires time we think that the two go hand in hand so schedule a task on your calendar and let the calendar say hey you want to do this now right and just even for ease of efficiency I know I go to a lot of meetings and I've got the iPad and I've got the laptop and everything else But I Bring out my uh Five subject notebook because for me That's the easiest thing to to write quickly and Where I need to be in terms of the schedules and the tod list so Something Like This I will be an anxious user uh of That's for Sure wanted to remind everybody out there Listening that You're listening to TECH talk on the naam segle network I am your host R lightstone You can listen to us on jmm dorg or ns.com AS always We are proud to be sponsored by friends atam Camera more than just a camera Store uh Please check them at online at adorama.com or visit them in person at 42 West 18th street uh If I can I'd like to Give a shout out to our engineer zk who always does an outstanding job but today with four guests and musical chairs and modulations in terms of Volume and closeness to the microphone it's really a pleasure working with him He is one of the consum professionals here at NA and that segways nicely into reminding everybody out there that next week begins the annual fundraising marathon on Monday the 24th of February but Don't wait till next week You can go out and pledge Now at j.org or na.com So when I was in yiv university which wasn't that long ago I guess though for your years It does seem a long time ago There was the in thing was was the market We were just sort tail thec bubble everybody wanted to trade or work for one of the big Banks who were taking advantage of the people who were trading That was sort of the popular thing to do there were a lot of Finance and accounting majors that were out there but it didn't seem like other than the guys going to day trading floors Which I Don't even any now why you was inspiring that individuality and creativity other than the stock market game Which at that point in time was pretty popular so How How's the environment changed to enable you guys to do what you're doing without cutting back on on you know sort of the core beliefs of yeshiva University so AS Any good University will do they will understand that the times move forward and they have to adapt And what they've done to adapt to the oncoming ons of the entrepreneurial movement of Which We all are a big part of uh they brought in an entrepreneur in Residence by the name Michael stra um Now this guy has really done everything this guy is venture capitalist entrepreneur consultant and corporate reconstruction at One point He was number five in American express um and he you know he had a very very lucrative consulting consulting business that he eventually Shut down just to come to yu to spend all of his time and energy on the students there so and he has this Open Door policy that why you didn't require of him but literally his Office is Open every morning at 7 a.m. and it won't close until 6 And you can walk in with any idea for any advice You can call email him I've emailed him at 520 in the and He's responded at 521 so quick on the email probably has a very decent calendar app not as good AS yours obviously but uh and i'm now asking you a little bit more background on this but how long has de stra been around at yu4 He's been around for a few years now but I think he just stepped up to be the official entrepreneur Residence and to be the official associate so since I don't have the pleasure of spending a lot of time on the yu campus are you guys um what you guys are doing is that mainstream for yu or is it still something out of the ordinary So it's a little bit still out of the ordinary um but it's becoming more and more mainstream and that's actually one of the things that I'm very passionate about to to give to other people what de has given to me to the simple understanding that If you have an idea or you have a frustration Don't just let it sit there and accept the status quo You can do something about it You can create your own company You can better the world through your ideas and and your solutions and that's why I started the suit optional club thea is to give the journey had given me to all the other students done it now I can help you guys do it I can help gu you so we actually got great response on our initial email We're going to be hosting our club meeting this week our first club meeting this week and It's going to be called scalable creativity So it's to understand and differentiate between the ideas that could work that couldn't work the idea that maybe only your mother would like and the ideas That venture capitalist would like Don't under ideas that only your mother be revenue genera typ of revenue much aware I could B the that i' like to my mom trade that for my motherinlaw you I'm saying different different options that could be there Right So so the point the point of suit optional is to have a structured environment It's not a fluffy club We're not going to come in and tell you that you're great We're going to come in and give you structured instruction bred to 10s me we bring you from idea from conception of ide to full business plan may even developed product and the last meetings the second to last one will be pitch night where anyone who really has structured business structured business plan has something to show something to present not just an idea anymore they will be able to pitch in front of a panel of professional investors or you know professional panelist that can say he This is a good ide this isn't a good idea give them structured feedback and the best five Will Go On to me Shark tank I'm going to bring a bunch of VC and angels to potentially invest in those best five ideas so That's not a club That's really accelerator guys have created on the university campus That's tremendous kudos to uh to you for doing that And for everybody else for getting involved with That Just a thought that I was thinking about having heard from the four of you and and for those of you listening we got adam from Queens and am I saying your last name correctly Thank you uh Michael LE with two ends from the Jeremy goldstein and char Morrison uh all on the show and each one impressive in their own right uh look I think every student yiv University who gives it their all just to be a student I think is incredibly impressive and should be uh commended for that but to be able to take on additional um responsibilities in such a meaningful way and and WE didn't get to really smooze it out all that much but SH yakov you know that ncsy is near and dear to my heart to be able to still do that in a meaningful way while doing other things I think is so important and and valuable but just a Question love to hear your feedback back scho I wonder if there would be flexibility perhaps the questions that I was asking at The Beginning uh would make more Sense being asked the opposite way should there be flexibility from yiv University in terms of the midterms and finals for students who are active in starting in starting their own businesses with that be University might even draw more potential entrepreneurs and certainly we wouldn't want to see uh you know people leaving College and leaving a place like yiv university which is worth much more than just a degree um because they're so busy with the business and just throwing that out there curious to your thoughts AS current students so It's definitely an idea and I'm Sure It's already being discussed uh by the deans by the faculty uh but wu has already taken Steps to to help entrepreneurs move forward um If you have an internship or If you're working for a company You can get credit for that so If you need a little bit of extra time you can do that There are three different morning programs that you can that you can do you can have one that has a little bit of a lesser tax on your time more tax on your time depends on What's important to you they are pretty flexible already um anything else would Of course help But I'm Sure It's also being discussed and and Dean stra is is a good resource to go to for that uh definitely I originally I just I came up to him and Said I have this idea and the first thing He said to me is like okay great write me three pages on it not one page not 10 pages write me three pages on it and I think That's Something Like That Just that little bit of initial advice it got me thinking like to develop and scale an idea that something That's not so BR that you need you know to write a novel to explain it but not something so narrow like I want to make a calendar That's cool and touch screen Which Which again wouldn't have gotten US to the Prototype That's currently being built so I think that just his constant guidance of what you know what amount development needs to be done at different times to sort of Take an abstract idea and get it into something That's a product i i think that I personally I don't think I could have done it with him so That's outstanding and and as a proud have to tell you that that really does make me feel uh feel very proud and and that is taken to nurture you and to make Sure that you're excelling in what you're doing go ahad They don't just nurture they they really reach out um I'll give you an example One way that a school could approach recruiting students is the Wholesale idea where they have a factory and kids come to them and then they say well You're a good client You're not a good cent uh but it doesn't work that way If You really want the best students If you want A Certain type of student You really have to do sort of a retail look where you go out You reach out to the best possible students and that's That's What did I was a perspective student um from yu and he called me I had no idea who He was at the time and he called Me and literally on a random day heent two and a half hours with me on the phone the next day another two and half hours and the day following three so here's a Dean busy guy but he still takes the time of day to really reach out to the students and get the best students possible We're going to need to bring the de on the show That's for we do a uh maybe after the pitch night maybe we can broadcast live from the pitch night and have an opportunity to BR the exposure of some the companies that are out There we here TE Talk areus people and not by the way I also go there but Sounds like you guys are part and parc of what the University is really All About You can and we going to try to rotate the chair so every can share just one or two thoughts maybe high school students that are out there students in who are and number challeng Gras focus accounting focus Finance got whatever J why iss to you about this and What are some of the challenges that you need to be aware of I think whats to me First of all I would also be an advocate to go to the high schools and you know tell to start there There's no reason why they can't there the only reason why I didn't There is because I wasn't told that It was possible and It's not something that people real so number one It's continue to bring this up is Dean Michael stra he he really just gives US his time of day and his advice and his expertise That's one huge opportunity another huge opportunity of yu is that up and coming There's huge There's a lot of students with similar ideals with similar passions so being with like-minded people also just helps you propagate your idea I think the only real disadvantage is that you're more pressed for time so challenge and and as the only Married of of the guys here um being able to balance also a family life that is okay is a challenge people need to be aware of that correct Yeah people defin need to be aware of that It's not you know like the simple story that you May he in a Future uh this company got bought out It's that guy did a lot of work right I got ok It requires a tremendous amount of effort and I have to imagine that There's an emotional roller coaster that goes involved with this and lows Absolutely get random text From from Jeremy and Mike and shov you know Hey we have a big problem can we have a conference and either We work it out or we don't we push it off so far we fortunate to work out all and notting the resp right You Keep so not only is focus required but there a lot of determination required Thank you foring that so I think's really great and unique is that they give you an opportunity to contin learning serly try to balance you know Finance and the degree and entrepreneurship project at the same time you know the learning sort of might inadvertently take sort of a back seat but the fact that yu I mean in a Sense requires but also encourages US to really focus and be at cater at 900 you know learning at a high level um for so many hours a day I think it allows US to do everything within the right mindset and make Sure that We're not you know cutting corners ethically morally and just to ourselves Because it puts us in the right kind of framework to be successful and to be successful for the right reasons not just to make millions of dollars hopefully but really to become around person and use the entrepreneurial projects as a way to improve our entire persona um As you know religious people trying to impact the world and really help people out ok Michael and and Jeremy If you have a chance to MOS up to the microphone and and just sort of share just in your Minds the concept of the largest challenge that youve had uh being an entrepreneur at your age so One thing I really in is you doing what you love a lot of times you know people are you know they go accounting they go Finance because something that like they do because they There's not many other opportunities they like That's the safest thing to do even though they may not like it So personally my Theory is you know Do what you love so this that you love you You defin Go after it andig ch potentially you would be facing It's a lot riskier you know you people can just Go into their specific safe Fields that they may not be interested in and they get their you know they get their guaranteed paycheck and you know It's easy Like That but you know the challenges is obviously the risk involved you know being an entrepreneur Thank you Jeremy and Michael any It's tough to be the fourth guy answering a Question the answers um so One thing I find very challenging is being entrepreneur in my opinion is the best J you possibly have exting doing things so while being in school It's very hard to find interest in different subjects that I'm learning you know like Major in accounting but do I really want to go into accounting No I want to be an entrepreneur I was born entrepreneur you know So I have to convince myself that I enjoy accounting and that I understand and that I actually like it So I can actually do well in school at the same time while managing my own company Right So youve got you have to balance the where I'd like to be over there but you understand that the skills that you're learning are are critical and important for val TECH uren I think yester There was another iseli buy for another 5 million bucks announced Friday one of the two than New York City since 2009 and that's with New York Major focus on entrepreneurship really in the latter bloomberg years uh Which I think is incredibly important But I think it's also important to understand that that entrepreneurship is not just something That's happening in Israel and WE try to Tie it into to What's going on there AS often AS We can on our show but it happens at yiv University it happens in our communities it happens while being able to handle the DU curriculum and it happens while being able to get Married and it happens while being in a dorm room and and those are things that matter and and If I walked away from One thing other than trying to remember When I slept AS little as you guys do uh but but walked Away With You know if there was a way to turn this on in elementary school or middle school um you would have been even more excited about that and uh and where that ability exists I would encourage everybody out there parents teachers administrators if you can add that in let just give one more opportunity to find every You can go toity be able to findi fairly soon again backline right You can always email Me for more information It's adam Gmail m gmail.com or You can feel free to visit my vcard ad.com right and If you find adam You'll Be able to find Michael you be able to find Jeremy You'll Be able to find shov really the Hub of entrepreneurship we Thank everybody for listening to TECH talk on the nachle network this isone you' Listening j.org or.com we Thank one last show Camera more than just Camera Please online.com orit them in 42 West 18th street We had phenomenal guest really A privilege and pleasure to Had you guys in the studio Thank you so much and WE look forward to hearing about What happens with all of your various companies Absolutely Thank you very much US Have a great day everybody Thank you youve been listening to TECH [음악] Talk [음악] [박수] a 아