014 - Jon Wheatley

from Anti- · host Kevin Kelly

Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch https://jonw.com @jon 6:00 - Intro 7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis 15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis 18:30 - ArchGrants 22:00 - Going into Y Combinator 23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009 28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications 35:00 - Favorite American city 42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth 46:30 - Getting “banned” from America 54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year 58:30 - DailyBooth winding down - 1:01:00 - Starting up Peel 1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment 1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency 1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign 1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects 1:20:30 - Managing time & projects - 1:23:30 - Stopwatch 1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019 1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works 1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta 1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model 1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship 1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’ 1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future 1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation 2:04:00 - Bruce Mau 2:07:30 - Making slingshots / Dead Eye Club 2:12:45 - White House trip 2:21:00 - Outro

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Dec 4, 2019

Embed this episode

Attribution link and audio player

What this episode covers

Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch

Distinct summary based on available episode metadata or transcript content.

Ready to play

014 - Jon Wheatley

0:00 2:25:51

1×

No transcript for this episode yet

We transcribe on demand. Request one and we'll notify you when it's ready — usually under 10 minutes.

Share this episode

Similar Episodes

No similar episodes found.

Similar Podcasts

Hey White Women Daniella Mestyanek Young In this conversation, Daniella Mestyanek Young and Rebecca discuss their experiences with cults and the realization that white supremacy is a cult. They explore the stages of leaving a cult and the process of deconstructing white supremacy. They also discuss the concept of white privilege and the need for white people to deprogram from the myth of white supremacy. They highlight the importance of understanding and acknowledging racism and the role of white people in dismantling white supremacy. They also touch on the parallels between cult dynamics and societal systems. The conversation explores the importance of recognizing and dismantling white supremacy within oneself and society. It emphasizes the need for white women to actively engage in anti-racism work and challenge their own biases. Explicit Worst Year Ever Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts 2020 isn't going to be fun for anybody, left, right, or center. What many call the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime is going to be exhausting, ugly, angry, and probably at least a little racist. Listen as Robert Evans, Katy Stoll, and Cody Johnston try to keep level heads covering the election while traveling the country, from the Iowa Caucus to gun shows and anti-vaccine conventions, finding out what Real America really wants and thinks during the, “Worst Year Ever.” Explicit FANTI Maximum Fun Sometimes the people, places, and things we love don't love us back. We're fans, but we also have some ANTI- feelings toward them. Every week on FANTI, journalists Tre'vell Anderson and Jarrett Hill bring their pop culture and political expertise to things we must stan and stand up against. FANTI is a place where nuance reigns supreme with energetic, complicated, and sometimes difficult conversations that bring deep knowledge and thoughtful perspective to the things we love and rage about, from the White House to the Real House(wives). Explicit The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment Portland-based anti-fascist Sean Kealiher was killed in 2019, months before the uprising that would bring Portland international attention. Nearly two years later, his homicide remains unsolved. His mother, Laura, believes she hasn't received justice because of police hatred for her son and his politics. Dying For A Fight, goes in search of answers: What happened the night Sean was killed? Why have no arrests been made? Who are the Americans living at the political extremes? And how did things escalate from Portland to the Capitol? The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight is part of The Binge - subscribe to listen to all episodes, all at once, ad-free right now. From serial killer nurses to psychic scammers – The Binge is your home for true crime stories that pull you in and never let go. Follow The Binge Crimes and The Binge Cases wherever you get your podcasts to get new stories on the first of the month, every month. Hit ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight s Explicit

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is this episode of Anti-?

This episode is 2 hours and 25 minutes long.

When was this Anti- episode published?

This episode was published on December 4, 2019.

Can I download this Anti- episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.

URL copied to clipboard!