#044 Brainstorming Bologna with Matt Ferrel and Ben Bator

Topics:

(5:14) - Matt & Ben’s friendship origin

(8:42) - Starting Texts From Last Night

(18:17) - Matt’s early career with Google, Coachella & Lafayette American

(43:33) - Mille Mitten

(58:34) - Tik Tok, Ads and Algorithms

(1:06:55) - Elon Musk & Twitter

(1:15:38) - Fixing Movie Theaters & car charging infrastructure

(1:38:07) - Fixing conferences

(1:50:50) - Exercise: Rebranding the podcast

Links:

Texts from Last Night (textsfromlastnight.com)

Lafayette American (lafayetteamerican.com)

TickPick (tickpick.com)

Mille Mitten (millemitten.com)

Mil-Spec Automotive (milspecauto.com)

Alamo Drafthouse (drafthouse.com)

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