289 – ⚱️ The Digitization of Deathcare with Faisal Abid

What this episode covers

In this episode, we talk with Faisal Abid: Speaker, Entrepreneur, Google Developer Expert, and co-founder of Eirene cremations. Eirene provides high-quality, affordable cremation services. Eirene allows families to plan an affordable cremation entirely online or over the phone. Leveraging technology to help provide a better funeral experience to families. Additionally, Faisal walks us through the unique business and technology challenges he faced at the beginning of Eirene. ✨ Episode Sponsor * Auth0: https://auth0.com* Auth0 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/auth0* Auth0 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/auth0* Auth0 Avocado Labs online meetup events: https://avocadolabs.dev/ 🔗 Episode Links * Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaisalAbid* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faisalabid/* Eirene Cremations: Simple, Modern Cremation Services https://eirene.ca/* Eirene LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eirene/* Eirene Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eirene* Hosts: * Frederick Weiss: https://twitter.com/FrederickWeiss* Brian Hinton: https://twitter.com/mrbrianhinton 📜 Transcript [00:00:40] Brian Hinton: Welcome to Thunder Nerds, I’m Brian Hinton. [00:00:42] Frederick Weiss: And I am Frederick Weiss. And thank you so much for consuming the Thunder Nerds. A conversation with the people behind the technology that love what they do, [00:00:53] Brian Hinton: and do tech, good. [00:00:59] Frederick Weiss: And our sponsor Auth0 is helping us do tech good all year long. [00:01:07] Brian Hinton: Yeah. We'd like to thank them again for sponsoring this season. [00:01:10] Brian Hinton: They make it easy for developers to build a custom secure and standards based unified login by providing authentication and authorization as a service to try it out, go to Auth0.com. Auth0 is also on both YouTube and at the twitches under a username Auth0 and with some great developer resources and streams. [00:01:35] Brian Hinton: Also, make sure to check out the avocado labs who doesn't love avocados? It's an online destination that their developer advocates run, organizing some great meetup events. And again, remember to check out Auth0.com. [00:01:51] Frederick Weiss: Love it. Thank you so much, Brian. Really appreciate it. Yeah. And go ahead and start live chatting with us. [00:01:56] Frederick