Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://gigster.com/">Debo Olaosebikan</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/dolaoseb">@dolaoseb</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Debo Olaosebikan talks with Dave Rael about shooting for the stars, lessons from physics, learning from mistakes, thinking positively, and delivering solutions </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Debo Olaosebikan is the CTO and co-founder of Gigster. He worked formerly at IBM where he worked on theoretical/computational frameworks for analyzing experimentally observed transitions in spin transfer devices in collaboration with Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Barbara Jones He has a Ph.D. and Masters from Cornell where he worked on building world's first electrically activated silicon laser. Hme went from Nigerian rapper to co-founder of high flying Silicon Valley startup in just three short years and was a part of the Y-combinator class of 2015.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Debo Olaosebikan</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Sources of Debo's lofty goals</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Physics in Nigeria and Debo's scientific origin</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Debo, the poet and musician</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The intent and implementation of Gigster</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Gigster and dealing with uncertainty and innovative ways of using data to manage risk</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Debo's role as Gigster</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The impact of building technology</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Roles in creation and the importance of authenticity</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Debo's story of failure - going too general in building a network</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Debo's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Debo stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Debo</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://gigster.com/" target="_blank">Gigster</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/trygigster" target="_blank">Gigster on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TryGigster/" target="_blank">Gigster on Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion" target="_blank">Newton's Law's</a></li> <li><a href="Theory%20of%20relativity" target="_blank">Relativity</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman" target="_blank">Richard Feynman</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau" target="_blank">Lev Landau</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201021153/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Volume Set) - Richard Phillips Feynman</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465075681/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics - Leonard Susskind</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/rogerdickey" target="_blank">Roger Dickey - Gigster co-founder with Debo</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.taskrabbit.com/" target="_blank">TaskRabbit</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory" target="_blank">Grand Unified Theory</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451639619/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Debo's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143122797/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/055380684X/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. - Daniel Coyle</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0670024961/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Mastery - Robert Greene</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0787960756/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Have an attitude of anything is possible and start from a positive lens</li> <li>Think before you build</li> <li>Work backward from the impact you want to make</li> </ol> </div> </div>
