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tran01 good morning, everyone. one of my guilty pleasures is ordering breakfast for delivery. my absolute favorite i ignored the fact that it's like $30, or 35 bucks for the time you count
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for all the fees and the tips. mike evans had come to me with that idea in 2004. i would've called it crazy because it grub hub. mike documented his experience of cofounding that company in creating really the only restaurant industry in his new book called hangry. let's start with that, crated the industry because grub hub was 10 years before door dash. in fact, it was before the iphone so to start, grub hub was a very different business. >> had started out it was literally hard to find restaurants that deliver to you. so is just the delivery guy. we didn't have online ordering and all that jazz. so better on the process. in the book i just arrived the hobby and it turns into a business, and then it gets to be a really big business. >> who was your very first customer in which you didn't know them, they just had
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stumbled upon your service and ended up paying for it. >> restaurant in chicago. >> so it starts as menus, right , when did you make the transition to doing delivery? >> yeah, it was just menus , you can deliver it to your address. we made the transition to online ordering about two years into the business it was really just like a delivery guide to start. and then it dawned on me that people would actually want to place an order after discovering the restaurant but actually placing the order. i'm so in start of world we call that a finish, and so made that transition. 2004, 2008, 2004. >> doing this online, doing this on the computer. the iphone really wouldn't catch on. >> yeah, the app score , we were running it your computer using a normal browser, firefox
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which is probably her most common at the time. it was just like the dark ages of the internet. you know. 2004, 2005. >> i do find it interesting that you stand tall or you had talked to them on the phone, and people are watching, like much rather roll around on my phone opting for pepperoni or say, you know, in the chinese one, looking for the crispy beef than calling the people on the phone and saying hey, i would like to order something. >> yeah, when i first started the business , everybody was like i don't get it. it isn't that hard to pick up the phone. it is the app we use least on our phone for the reason. paul hate going to that, takes longer, it's inefficient, it's interact and back, when people started placing online orders, they went from ordering delivery from once a month to twice a week. so the actual size of the
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industry was taking the friction out of the process. >> one of the interesting things is, and i realize grubhub is more popular in the midwest but door dash almost becomes a firm, the way, hand me that xerox over there. how did door dash get ahead? you have been around. certainly you are no longer with the country company. when it was first invented. >> i think it is challenging for any start up, that you really have to be in abating to stay in the competition. and you have to be different. so i don't know that there is a ton of different nowadays, at the time i think that there was back in 2014. it is maybe just an object for any company that you really have to be innovating. >> i don't think any conversation about gig economy can go without talking about gig employees. i know employees should be taken
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advantage of, and certainly there are situations with other companies of some really really bad behavior. but i, the advantages of being a gig employee, to me, are tremendous i don't drive for grubhub or door dash but if i did, i would drop the kids off at school between when i had to pick them up and taken to soccer practice, i would uber, i would be an uber driver. >> yeah, i think that the gig economy is great for flexibility. if you're looking for a career that has economic advancement, like 40 hours a week, you start driving uber, you're fine. >> is not a career move. >> i think that is an important thing to recognize, that it is not meant to be all things for all people, and my new company, fixer, we actually implore a handy person, we employ people full time instead
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of using a gig economy for exactly this reason. because it is a career oriented economic growth sort of a job >> you could have taken the money from grubhub and taken it easy. first of all, you didn't take it easy the continental united states, and then you to do your startup. why not just take it easy? >> yeah, so after with grubhub, i rode off into the sunset, literally after the idea and during that time i had time to reflect and then you really think about the fact that what's now i have the resources . i still had to get. so i created this new company that is impact oriented company. the reality is it is all about skilled trade in the united states. what we want to do is create an entry pack where we train people. that is the new company, and it is the same thing.
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>> i wish you luck , sounds like the greatest title for a book ever i appreciate you being g wiwith us. . we will be right
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with the founder of grubhub. let's keep the food seam go and talk about shrimp in a box, which sounds like a fast food outlet. come on down to shrimp in a box aquaculture project? when, raised by robots, all of artificial intelligence in the shipping container. daniel is the brains behind the project and ceo of otter i have faced in mexico. let's start with why shrimp, what is the value of shrimp. >> well, shrimp is the number one protein. it is the number one product for seafood demand people depend more on shrimp than salmon. >> how is that smart now? i have to admit complete ignorance. some of it is in the sea or something. as far as farming shrimp, how is that now? >> most of the shrimp farming is done basically in ponds or
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holes in the ground. and it is mostly done in places like mexico or india or ecuador the right conditions, the right weather conditions for the shrimp, the natural environment . ocean water, a very close range of temperature and light conditions. and those all play. >> of course, when you do that in a box you can create the conditions. it is my understanding that your first major farm is going to be in indiana which i don't make is being necessarily right for shrimp production. >> yeah, that was a factor , the reason behind the decision. we can grow in landlocked indiana. have a completely different weather than other farms in oaxaca, mexico. i think that we can basically grow shrimp anywhere. >> and how much does the box produce?
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would the average farmer have a box or 10 boxes, or 100? what is the condition? >> about 20 shrimp boxes. each box can hold 1.5 tons of shrimp. to put this in perspective, you need three acres of basically that i now completely destroyed , like in sinaloa or ecuador. >> and this is pretty much set it and forget it, right? the farmer may have to come by and check the settings or maybe even done wirelessly. under ideal conditions, the box does all the work. >> the box does the heavy lifting. we consider about 1.5 to two hours per week for a box. this is simple set stuff.
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we take the things that are very expensive to automate and give them points to automate. >> i was reading some of the information about this and if i got this right, you do have to keep the water warm and so there is a heater, but that here can actually run on animal waste. >> yes. >> which is incredible because most firms are going to have animal waste because they sometimes use for fertilizer but otherwise it is literal waste. it's a problem, not an answer. >> exactly. and also the shrimp itself because basically one microbial community that are capturing that nitrogen cycle and food production and that is how we do of the shrimp and most of the product is something, which is nitrogen and other kinds. so that is and organic
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fertilizer or bio digestion. >> and how long does it take for a box to produce, i assume they grow from tiny little shrimp to edible shrimp how long does that take? >> 12 months. and the type of the shrimp, nothing like that in the production. but in 12 months, shrimp grow 10,000 times in size in just four months. if you had that with a cow, you would start with a calf, and now it is nothing like that. >> and you are actually, these are up and running in the go. just not some theory. this is happening. >> and has been documented. the past three years. and haven't up and running farm, and going to have the first harvest. so you think about this, we got
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the lease for the warehouse. and in november we are having our first full commercial sized shrimp. >> and the other thing your company does is it works the shrimp market. you connect to the food companies with the shrimp farmers. tell me something i don't know about the shrimp market. >> wow [ laughter ] >> which is a lot, i don't know anything about the shrimp market. but what are some things about selling sure across the world? >> yeah, exactly. to that . across the world is critical. shrimp are one of the few that we rely on international trade and business so that you can get shrimp in india. these people, other times there's kind of a gold rush, in this case, a pink gold rush. so
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for instance, the shrimp that you are by might be frozen for two or five years. to have that with a beautiful shrimp that looks like it is fresh from the sea is by adding preservatives. but the problem with that is something like 50% of food allergies are due to seafood allergies or crustacean allergies are due to the preservatives. look on the shelf, so this is a problem. >> that is interesting. i wish you the best of luck on your first american harvest and thank you for being with us. that is creatotor of the e shri box. wewe will bebe right backck.
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welcome back to press here. thousands of thoughts last week, and week before that, twitter cut hundreds upon hundreds of jobs. on top of that, we're seeing fewer job applicants interested in working in certain tech companies. a company that helps train and coach job candidate estimates that job applications are down 22% in alphabetic google, down 31% at tesla, and 33% fewer
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qualified applicants applying to netflix now that company, called exponent, estimates job applications that twitter are down 88% since its peak earlier this spring. stephen kohn yetter is ceo and exponent he is prepared thousands of people for job interviews. that twitter number in just a second. but first, how do you know who is applying where? where are you getting that data? >> yeah, great question. so we basically help people get jobs, one of the leading providers in career pressed resources. so everyday people log into our website, what company are applying to and what companies would be their dream job. so you see a dramatic shift in trend over the last month, especially as the tech market. >> is actually, the interest i'm seeing things like ibm and infosys. we are losing interest, that
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applicants are into fang companies. i can see why ibm and emphasis make sense. these are big stable companies. >> absolutely, i think job security right now, is really top of mind for tech companies and it has never been like that for the countless few years behind us, and now people are either staying in a job and not switching as much to go down. or instead of staying in their job they're looking to go to something stable. >> as for this twitter number , you know, interest down 88%, the data don't tell you why i would admit you have some speculation. >> yeah , i can't say that i don't i mean actually prior to even the news that, depending on cutting out. and so yeah, i think the shift in dynamic at twitter, again, if you look at stability i would not say that twitter will
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ring true of a stable hiring right now. >> these other companies , worth noting, applications down 31%. anything to make that? >> my hypothesis there is that part of it is an old trend. we are seeing so many companies lose in the job market and from candidates right now, generally it is down. candidates are more worried about applying to these jobs. and they are staying in their jobs. and yeah, go ahead. >> i was going to say, that makes sense. people that don't have jobs would apply anywhere. but people who think to themselves, i am reasonably happy to be well-paid in this job, i'm not getting a job for a while. i want to keep my seniority. >> yeah, absolutely. on the other side, we are also seeing that people are not getting braces or people are not actually switching jobs that much which is a great way to advance your career.
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on the other hand, candidates are losing their power in the market. and there is actually an opportunity -- focusing on job switching. >> other people aren't doing it so you ought to be is basically the message. >> people would be surprised to hear currently, don't even necessarily light all the company. so for instance, very early on in the hiring season, didn't even apply to product management or google when they started hiring freezes and so it is important to kind of read between the lines.
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like hey, even if it harder, they are still open positions available. >> now , your website helps people prepare for job interviews, and i was looking at it. you know, it will say are you having a cool job interview or an amazon job interview or a twitter job interview. but what is the difference? >> totally, and we are seeing a little bit of , as the market grows, we are seeing these kind of standardized across the different companies. but in general, one of the types of questions that google asked or the facebook will ask, specific to the different so in product management they still have the atomic types of questions, which is past the ability to handle understanding data analysis of different product pieces apparently so why did it go down? which is a
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more common job function then at google where a lot of the product is little bit more on the visionary, that is how they build their organization so kind of a little bit of a different culture, that side, versus that kind of moonshot style of google. but again, they are becoming more standardized. i'm on the whole, actually see that interview companies will play more challenging, as well. again, if there are fewer candidates, fewer slots, it is going to be a tougher battle. >> we have all seen, i think, on twitter or tiktok or facebook or whatnot. this is one of the questions that google has, why are around? how accurate are those things >> yeah, i think while very delightful -- >> fun to figure out sometimes. >> there coming pretty rapidly. the last five years have had a
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problem. i think they have tested something rigorous, really, for companies. with we're seeing and said, the question is we are seeing some questions like how much does the empire state building way? you're supposed to figure that out from the kind of question. >> the idea being that nobody can just figure it out in their head. it the logic, i remember seeing one, how many people do you think there are in the world, sort of thing. one was interesting, are there more doors or wheels was one of them, as well. but watching the person, okay, let me think about how i will process this. >> is all about being able to take the complex challenging problems, break it down to step component and being able to estimate each one of those things. that is an important skill in life in so many different ways but i think especially company like google and facebook, they want to be resilient for people
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