what's up guys welcome to a new video so in this one I'm going to show you a proven seven figure Shopify dropship in store so this store has in fact turned over $2.7 million I believe I'm going to be showing you their website their best selling product as well as the Facebook has have been running to generate those sorts of sales as well what's really interesting about this particular business is the majority of those sales have been produced through Q4 obviously Q4 is about two and a half weeks away so if you are looking for a particular product to sell to go into to Q4 and capitalize on those sales for Christmas cyber Monday and of course Black Friday then this may be the video just for you so with that being said then thanks for tuning in I hope you guys enjoy it if you do please do make sure you leave your like please do make sure you subscribe to see more of my content and of course any comments questions video suggestions whatever it is just leave them down below I do read every single one so we'll see your questions and comments there that may say thanks again for tuning in hope you enjoy it and let's jump straight into it so the store in question is called pet boutique co it is a pet store a dog store to be specific before jumping to the numbers and just some very quick background information it is a dropship in business that works with a direct supplier that ships directly to their customers I suspect some form of an agent it's fully automated so they say which I'm not sure how that can be true if they're running Facebook ads and things like that unless they're paying an agency to do that they have two VAs which they got from Upwork which handle all of their customer service for them traffic is driven primarily from Facebook and Instagram paid ads so typically the business model that everybody speaks about on YouTube which is a Shopify dropship in store and then Facebook has or Instagram ads or Google ads to generate the traffic three or four percent conversion rate which is very good and now then let's move into the interesting part that everybody wants to see which is the numbers so on average about 200k per month which is obviously very solid very good these numbers are verified by Shopify too so revenue data comes directly from Shopify and cannot be edited by the sales there's no trickery nothing like this going on here ad as I mentioned in the intro if we have a look at the sales for Q4 so 90k in September which is okay but then it drastically scales very quickly start of Q4 October straight up to 330 September almost doubles and then in December they fall just short of 820,000 all in one month after Q4 then we can see that the sales drop off quite drastically all the way down to averaging about 80k per month which again is a very solid business considering I think somewhere they said about five hours per week to maintain so that's not bad 80k a month for five hours per week most people will probably take that so it just goes to show if you do things well and have the right product the right store and marketing campaign then you can make some very significant money with dropship and that really is the beauty of dropship and with it being a purely online run business a lot of it is outsourceable you can make money very quickly if you do those three core elements correctly which is a professional trustworthy Shopify store a good marketing campaign and of course a good products as well that being said then guys let's have a look at their website which is quite interesting if we use our Shopify inspector we can see they're using the debut theme so the debut theme is a 100 free theme it gets a lot of kind of negativity and bad press because it doesn't look very good but these guys have done 2.7 million dollars using a free theme so it just goes to show you do not need it's not 100 necessary to invest in a paid theme they have a very basic logo they probably paid no more than $20 for that offer fiver if we take a look at their best selling products we can see the top two are the deep sleep calming bed and then the deep sleep calming blanket so this is where I believe the majority of their sales will have come from if we take a quick look at their product pages then I don't need to spend too much time on this obviously you guys can see the URL you guys can find this store in the exchange marketplace and go and kind of peruse it in your own time but the kind of point I want to put across then is that the store is nothing special what the reason it's so successful is because they do all the basics correctly there's no punctuation mistakes everything is like capitalized the first letter of each word they've got nice original images high quality no Chinese branding they've obviously put a lot of thought and time into the product description so introducing the original deep sleep calming bed with the TM they've put a trademark there as if to say it's kind of a unique product to them one of the highest quality pet beds ever produced it kind of gives it that feel of this is the original product so even if they see this product elsewhere this is the original these guys make the original even though the chances are they're probably just sourcing it from the very same factory as everybody else crafted with premium nylon fabric and finished with a luxurious faux fur exterior soon the bed is designed to mimic the cozy comfort of the mothers and so on and so forth so as you can see they've put a lot of time and thought into this it's not just a simplistic copy and paste product description from aliexpress at the bottom of the product page they have looks reviews my favorite review app I use this on all of my stores in fact just because of the way and how easy integrates into pretty much any theme and doesn't look out of place what I really like about it as well is the image reviews to image reviews are proven to convert better than just text alone so highly suggesting investing in an image review app and they have 176 reviews which is five star overall now to me that looks a bit suspect but at the end of the day at 2.7 million turnover and we can't argue with them the reviews are obviously very good too so really high quality images with some cute dogs just displaying using the product how much they love the product the reviews are extensive as well it's not just one or two words are not written in Russian or some foreign language that your customers won't understand everything just looks prim and proper and overall just a very good store which obviously reflects the kind of results these guys have been able to produce that means so then if we jump into the Facebook ads library so this is the pet boutique Facebook ads library these are all the ads that currently are currently running sorry account talk but before we have a look at some of their creators first of all just want to point your attention to how many likes how many followers they have on Facebook and Instagram because 2.7 million dollars just goes to show you haven't got to have 2.7 million followers in order to produce that they have 1300 likes on Facebook and they have 15 000 on Instagram so if we take a look at some of their ad creatives then we can see there's 68 results so this is on all platforms across the whole of the world as well this isn't just UK so this is all ads just to kind of flick through so you can see all the different kind of ad creatives it's not just the same one this is something you need to test extensively and the results will prove themselves to you as you can see they're selling the same product in every single ad but every single one is a different creative whether it's the actual visual part or the actual description itself they're all different and that is kind of like one of the key things that you'll see any successful e-commerce business do is they won't just keep advertising their products in the same way with the same creatives the same text if you want to get to those big numbers you need to experiment with different creatives because there will come a point where people have seen the same creative four five six seven eight nine ten times and if somebody's seen it that many times they just switch off to it and they won't even notice it next time they scroll past it so test lots of different creatives they have image ads of cute dogs which are obviously going to gather attention they have different video ads and just flicking through these now I don't think there's a single one with the same description either I think there may be one or two so it just goes to show the more you test the more experiment and the more likely you are to come across that kind of sweet spot and that sweet kind of visual and descriptive kind of combination that produce those really good results what I want to do though so I just want to highlight kind of like the key points the key things that I like about what they do that you guys can then go and implement into your own ads as well so if we scroll right to the bottom knee should be the earliest ads in terms of when they were first published and started running so this started running on May 13th these guys wouldn't keep this particular ad running all that time if it wasn't profitable so if we take a look at this video ad first of all the thumbnail has a blue border to kind of capture your customer's attention dog's favorite calming bed with an arrow pointing to a cute dog lying on the bed so let's just take a quick look at this they have some really calm and soothing music and then by the looks of things just different clips of cute dogs lying in the very products that they sell so it's great social proof it's great advertisement and it's a great demonstration of how good the product is everybody wants to see their dog in a safe sound environment and by kind of capturing this on video it makes customers kind of envisaged envisage if that's even a word their own dog doing the same thing so it's a perfect video ad and then across the bottom in that kind of instagram highlighted text different key points and features and benefits of the product so just text book video ad and again it just speaks for itself by the kind of results these guys have produced just to kind of highlight a couple of other things in which you might notice as well across all of the ads they use for number one they use of emojis the dog knees she's obviously quite a warm and joyful niche and emojis are kind of in keeping with this feel and theme they also have some ads which start with reviews from their customers so this one goes straight into maddie loves her new bed she was suspicious at first slowly warmed up and now is often um napping in a new bed by jennifer c so that's a great way to kind of capture your customer's attention immediately instead of talking about the products itself but to actually quote um an existing customer there's no better way to sell your product um then past customers who have already bought it and been happy with it again it comes back to that whole trustworthiness the number one kind of obstacle you have to overcome as a new business that nobody's ever seen or come across before um is getting people to trust you and reviews is a great way to do that now i could go on and on and on for hours i'll probably write a book about different facebook ad techniques etc but hopefully i've shown you enough in this video um for you to learn something new um to give you some ideas to move forward to naturally capitalize on q4 um so i'm going to wrap the video up there thank you very much for watching i hope you enjoyed it if you did please do make sure you leave a like if you want to see more of my content please do make sure you subscribe as well any comments or questions about anything video suggestions etc just post them down below and finally before you go if you are looking for a Shopify drop shipping course not just drop shipping in fact 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Wel? Very good morning to you. Thank you so much for sticking with us. This is why in the morning, my name is Rammago Kukul. It's a pleasure being with you today. And of course, thank you so much for tuning in. We are coming to you live from the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation here in Nairobi, Kenya. And of course we are streaming through our website. That's www.kbc.co.kefastlash y254. Inaweza, kwa goesi oma mahal na meda malfakukuta, mahal na tukcia na ubaina politikia zada reibast jacket wa wujakia wajakia. Ibani na wa fadeowa, mahal na mtubutia wa shirillia. Tukcia kniwkya kabumартadu mahal na bujuUni mahal na mtubutia mahal na mtubutia. Ubezanuku kweziti na majuata ni tan wawu kafa ni tan waive kamaurana ni kikulanti ilama wajakia wakamaa kwa kwa kulta kwa kavushiai na mingan kele kwa kinauni. Mijiwadi, pula kisha nile, na kasaiman nasuwezaweza waia kasaiman na majuata na majuata na majuata ni nilawezaweza na maziawadi na majuata. Kaja bingatura ni naka tukuwa nufuwa k Morning me, Olivia Mukami is a student leader at the University of Nairobi and to my far right I'm with the Dairain Hart who is a council member at Tugutuke, yeah Karibunisana. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks so much for coming, I appreciate your presence. Let me start with you Mukami. Tell us something before we get into the integrities, something a bit more about what you do and a bit more about yourself for somebody who's meeting you for the first time today. Thank you very much for inviting me today. So my name is Olivia Mukami, I'm a student leader and I'm actually vying for the gubani tourist seat in the main campus and I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a youth entrepreneur and encouraging youth and I'm in politics as well. It's coming up, we have an organization called VoteWise Kenya. So VoteWise Kenya focuses on educating youth mostly, on voting wise making critical decisions on the ballot mostly and if they have already failed we also help them to correct it. We help them to correct it. Yeah we help them to correct it when they see it. And the gubani tourist that you've vying for, when are the elections coming up? So they're coming up next year but already we have started the campaigns so the ground is how it's right now. Oh wow, wow, wow. I wish you the best. Thank you very much. So why for something but let me come to you Darren, something about what you do and yourself for some people it's missing for the first time today. Yes, my name is Darren Hutt, I'm the people's president at the University of Nairobi, just as we have people's president Baba and now recently I was appointed deputy country director clean up Kenya, I'm also the youth board chair YMCA Nairobi South Branch, I'm also the council member Tugutuke movement, I'm also the founder and director Darren Hutt Foundation. Thank you so much for coming and I appreciate your presence. Let's get into the integrities of this particular discussion. First of all let me start with you Mukami. We have the under days of the government, the UDA government in office. In your opening remarks so far, do you feel like we are setting the right pace and that we are on the right track? Well no, I don't think we are on the right track, I would give it a fail. I think we have failed, we have failed terribly, terribly, I would give it a 20 over 100. 20 over 100? Yes. Why that was very low for, that's very low? Yes it is because we won't quote anything right now because they have not delivered, they have not delivered what they promise in their manifesto, we are educated people here, we read those manifestos very well and as the youth of this country as students of Nairobi University political science department, we are landed, we are landed fellows, we think they have failed terribly, they have not delivered what they promised. Okay, okay and the opening remarks there? Okay according to me checking within 100 days, I can't say they have failed terribly, there are strides that have been made considering the pressure and economic situation in the country, I can say, I can give them some points and I can also say we are on the right track but on the slow pace, yes but I am seeing the future, if the president continue doing whatever he is doing, we will earn something out of it. Out of 100? Yes. Percentage? Okay, out of the nine things the president promised, he has delivered four and… I am looking at the percentage, before you get into the specific ones, how would you rate them? She gave them 20 percent. Okay, I can give them 54 percent. Okay, now you can proceed. You said they have delivered four? Four items have been delivered on and others have been worked on, so out of four I could say they are above 50. This includes even the hustler fund although it has its own disadvantage or maybe the nitty gritties of it but I can give them, they have tried, the president and his government have really tried to be where they are considering the economic situation in the country although I feel that the pace is slow. So you wouldn't agree with what she is saying, 20 percent is too low? No, that is too low. It's too low. No, I don't think it's too low. That's what they deserve. That's what they deserve? Yeah, I think they promised more than they could handle. Okay, let me look at some of the things that we are looking into today. We have the appointment of, the appointed pending court of the appeal judges, court of appeal judges and they were appointed, we saw them, isn't that a hit, a good record for the government to be able to manage to do that? Yes, it's a good record and the president promised and he delivered with no fear. You know when we have strong judiciary, we will have a small rolling of the country. Yes. Not a hit? Yeah. So that's a hit for you? That's a hit as well. That is a part of the 20 percent. Part of the 20? Yeah, that is the part of the 20 percent. Okay, okay. We have the appointment of the court of appeal judges. Yeah. We are looking at the operationalization of the judiciary fund. Now it's operational. Yeah. The judiciary fund. You know we've had a discussion and I remember the former CJ was talking a lot about that fund. What do you, you're taking the gas to that? I think first of all say if you strengthen the judiciary, that means you strengthen them. It's a very important institution in the government. It's one of the institutions that a country needs and I think the fund will seriously help, will help very well in the operations, the day to day operations of the judiciary because it was stuck, it was stuck for a while. And apart from the fund, apart from the fund helping in pushing things, I also think the judiciary still needs to be worked on and the fund will help, will really help. All right. Darin? Okay, that is a hit and I think it's a good move because once we empower the judiciary, the judiciary will have its own mandate to carry out its responsibilities. We've seen in the past whereby we have cases that have taken longer, they are being postponed every now and then, some courts are not working, there are not enough lawyers. So you see if we strengthen the judiciary system and we make it independent as it is, then Kenyans will get justice. Now it's operational and we are looking at something that might be able to fund, although that can fund their day to day operations and for me that's a good hit. 100 days. All right, speaking of funding, Hasla fund. What to make us as a kuhimama by Hasla fund? Let's talk about that. Hasla fund. Well, well, well, that's another thing I don't agree with. Hasla fund was, it's more of a reward. I can't call it a fund, it's more of a reward and according to my viewer, these Hasla fund will later come out as, remember when we had these COVID millionaires, soon we will have Hasla millionaires. I look it for me, I, you know, you don't look something near, you look at it from a distance. You foresee a scandal coming up? Yeah, I foresee a scandal coming up and it will be a big scandal. Maybe, you know, no more Kenyans might not see it right now, but people who understand very well this Hasla fund, it was not a good idea. According to me, Hasla fund was a very good idea from the president. Very good. I give him 110 percent. But I would like to criticize. I was not even on the bat. There's always a bat somewhere. There's a bat, it's not straight. Where I want to criticize the Hasla fund is the money is too small. And number two, how it was put into operational to Kenyans. Number one, it did not go through the parliament. Number two, we don't know the agreement between the corporate bodies like Safaricom and Airtel who are dishing this money. And where is the source of this money? Kenyans don't know that, and that is what they are talking on the streets. How much is the interest? And if you want to get how much you see the 50 shillings when you get the Hasla fund, the 50 shillings goes to the savings, right? Now the question will be, I'm the one who is saving and I'm the one who was asked for the Hasla fund. Are they taking my 50 shillings by force or willingly? But you know, it depends on the person that has taken the Hasla fund. Yes, it depends. Every person has a different allocation. OK, now the question arises, where is this money coming from and from which banks? Does it matter where it's coming from? Yeah, who is even managing it? You know, who is even managing it? Who is even managing it? And the other question, I don't know if Dara will agree with me on this. According, this is not 2000. This is 2023. 2022, sorry, we are going to 2023. 500 shillings. Our economic situation right now is so bad. We have a calamity right now. People are hungry. When you give me 500 shillings, the first thing I think about is going to buy two packets of Unga. I don't think of investment. For you, the first thing that you mentioned was one of the first thing was where is it coming from? OK, where is it coming from? So, for somebody who needs money, will they think about where the money is coming from? The Haslas, the Kenyan Haslas. So if it was coming from a particular bank, would you take it as opposed to if it's coming from through a loan from China? Unga kata? These are Haslas? Swezi kata, Swezi kata. That's the problem. That's the problem. It's a fund. I'm not supposed to repay it, but if you want to pay a two-bure, they would have given it. If you want to pay a two-bure, because it's not helping at all. And then, there is a problem with this thing. They said during the manifesto that every person will be able to access this money. Every citizen utatola wa kwa CRB, that has not happened. There are some people who are not able to access the the Haslas fund. Some people are not, because they are looking at your savings. It's just like emsuree. I don't see anything wrong. It's another emsuree they have created. It's another emsuree. It's another emsuree. It's another emsuree. It's another emsuree. It's another emsuree. I think they would have done something better with this Haslas fund. Okay. For me, I'll still support the Haslas fund. It's a good idea. My problem is one, the mechanism at which it is starting from. That it just did not pass through parliament? Yes. That's the sovereign power of the Kenyan people is through parliament. If it did, let me ask you, Darren. If it did, would it be something you approve of? Yes, because through the parliament, it will have been criticised and discussed and also people's views on it will have taken to account. So that people will know this Haslas fund is gotten from this place. There is this interest. The government has agreed with the corporate bodies like Zafarkom and Airtel. When you do it, your savings will go like this. Is it willingly or not willingly? Because I'm the one who is getting the loan. But the Haslas fund itself is an empowerment to Kenyans. Because with 500, as much as she says it's small, with 500 you can start a business of kus and easy. Then it's a good thing. Then it's a good thing. It's only that you feel like it should have passed through parliament. But now that it did not, it doesn't negate its goodness. It doesn't negate, but now the process is behind it. It was a bad club from the start. The strategy of Haslas fund it was, but sometimes I will say, not all of us are business oriented. We are not all business people. You understand that? So for example, Darren thinks that with 500 he can start a business. Not everyone thinks that they can start a business. Not everyone is a businesswoman. Not everyone is a businessman. Not every youth is a business person. They think they can go and buy, they can go to Gekomba, they can start a small drift business. They can go to Marigiti and stuff. We are not all of us business oriented. What they would have done, they would have done something common good. You know, like Sako, the Sako thing. So optionally it should be Sako. It should be a Sako thing. You know, Kenyans are known with Sakos very well. It would have started with Sakos, like 15 youth come together, do something, being given the Hasla fund thing. It would have come as a Sako thing, but not an individual thing. Because right now, most youth, you know, you could see online when the Hasla fund came. People used it that weekend. Can a Sako... Just to correct, you know, Hasla fund has the interest of a Sako also. Yes. So it is there. The Sako can also go and apply. But there is an approach she is talking about. Highlight the approach. Because the Sakos can also apply there. See? But now she is talking about approaching it in the form of accessibility. The way you access loans through a Sako. Yeah, the way you access loans through a Sako. But also remember, these Hasla funder, they are checking at your credibility. So the Sako thing has a question there, because if they check if you have a loan, if I have a loan, if you know it's... The plan was bad. It was not strategized properly. I still don't agree. Because I think the Hasla fund came to that local monainji. We even don't know the bank for some of those people. And that's why the president was saying the process will be easy as dialing one, two, three on your phone. And so if you incorporate things to do with the Sako, you know, you're excluding some of the people who cannot go to the Sako, they don't have even an ID. Or maybe they are under 17 or something. Under 18, maybe in town there. But they have a fund, they have a will to go and start that small business. But they have a fund, so they can just dial and get the money. The money is okay. What I can propose on it is to increase the limit for those people and also to tell Kenyans how it operates, what is the interest. That is it. Is it zero interest? Let's talk about the interest rates. Some Kenyans are complaining about the interest that is too high. Is it okay for you? Of course, I know you will say no, that's why it's okay for you. It is a bad idea. So from the start, the game plan was bad. So it's spoiled to wherever for me. Okay, for me the interest is low. But I will suggest it to be zero. Let that money be just, you take it, you reverse it the way it is because it's from the government. And what did they even call it a fund? But also when it has an interest, we are also earning as Kenyans. We are getting something and that something will build our country so long as we don't have the corruption. You have a problem with the name? I have a problem with the name because if I'm funding you, what do I need interest? What should it be returned as a low? It's a fund, it's a fund. You give it, you're funding me. So it is not a good idea. So for me, I don't think I have anything. For me, I'll still support the interest but it should be a little bit smaller because we're also building our country. We are caring for the future of this nation. And if we get this interest, it's not going to the pocket of someone. If it's going to the pocket of the government, the government will be able to improve some of the facilities in health, education and whatever. So long as the money is helping us and growing the country but not an individual. All right, something else. We are looking at those who are put in CRB. The government, the UDA lifted the, those who are blacklisted, we are looking at a number of approximately 4.5 million Kenyans that are lifted from the CRB blacklist. Thumbs up, thumbs down, mukami. It comes down. Why? Because you know... You want them to be on CRB? You know, if you asked for a loan, you asked a loan from someone's business, these banks are businesses. When you took a loan, you knew you'll pay back. So what are they trying to promote? Are they trying to, you know, banks are also owned by people.  The government is helping the hustlers who cannot manage to pay back. Hence, them ending up on CRB blacklisting. Why can they create a plan? You know, they can create a plan but what are they teaching Kenyans? What are you teaching Kenyans that you can be deleted from CRB so you can take loans and the government comes. It's a reward. I'll just call all these a reward which is not right. So 4.5 million Kenyans ought to be brought back to CRB? Yeah. Thumbs up. I think... Number one, I appreciate the idea. Some people are literally not able to pay. Somebody may be borrowed 20,000 shillings or 10,000 shillings. But the nature of our society can't allow them to pay the money. So if the government can pay them that debt but the government should also empower those people so that it will not keep on paying the debt. You see, the problem is not even the CRB. The problem is the empowered people. They may end up going back into debt. The youth don't have jobs, they are not generating anything. They will end up going back to the CRB. But supporting the removal of CRB, I support it 100%. But the government should empower the people of Kenya, especially the youth who are unemployed. So that they are able to sustain themselves. But if they don't, if the government will not create jobs, opportunities for these people, still more people will go to the CRB. Do you agree with her that it should be taken back to CRB? Because now you're saying if they are not empowered, then they will still go back to getting blacklisted. Should they be taken back so that they can learn? No, no, they should not be taken back because it's the government. And the government is the people. It's the government of the people. The problem is not even taking them back. The government has done a very good thing to bring them out of the CRB so that they are free people who can borrow again, who can continue their businesses. But the problem lies from the government to provide jobs, opportunities so that these people can sustain themselves instead of going back to the CRB. You know, there is a problem here because we are in a society where we just don't deal with the root cause. What is the root cause of this thing? Why are people in CRB? Because there is no empowerment. There is no jobs. So create jobs. Let these people have jobs and let them be responsible for what they have done. Why am I removing you from CRB? Let me have a dialogue with the bank or the lender on a plan on how I will pay this thing. Just look at this. I was blacklisted at the CRB and now the government has given me a funding, a hasla fund. Wouldn't I feel some form of reprieve? Wouldn't I feel relieved one, I've been removed from CRB. Two, there is a hasla fund that I've been able to acquire. What is the root cause of this thing? It is the root cause of this thing. We should learn what is the root cause of this thing because we are creating a society that is in the CRB.  We are in the CRB and we are in the heart of the people. We are in the heart of the people. So let us teach people how to be responsible. According to my thought, this is a new government in place that has never been there. For the first time we have a PhD president. We have never had a PhD holder president in office. A doctor. And now this is just a hundred days. We cannot just judge him fully that he will not deliver. And what I can say is this, when he entered office he realized there are so many Kenyans who are in the CRB and moving with those people building this country, it can be cumbersome. So maybe he saw it. Let me remove these people, empower them. Maybe he's going to create jobs, opportunities for the youth. Once he does that, this country will go up and the GDP of this country will even triple if he does that and kills the corruption story of our country. Yes. So, I'm trying to look at the economic stability of the country that the president is trying to work on and I'm noticing that there is the approach of empowering the monanchi. Do you feel like the Kenyan monanchi, the common one, the one jikwa is being empowered through these activities of funding and removal from blacklisting? Are they being empowered, Mukami? Well, like I said, and like he mentioned, it's a hundred days. We are yet to see more and we don't expect him to do miracles in a hundred days. But I think they have to look at you know, there's needs and wants. They have to look at the needs. What do we need right now? We have calamities. Our economic situation right now is not very good as a country. So, what are we concentrating on? They should concentrate on, like for example, I'll give you an example. Right now we have fatraisas. You mentioned fatraisas for farmers. Yeah, yeah. So, it's a good idea, but strategically it's not a good idea because the problem is the cost of production is very, very high. For example, right now token, electricity tokens are last month with a thousand shilling you'd get 53 units. Right now with 1000 you're getting 32, that is 7, 32 if I'm not wrong. So, the cost of production is very low and when you increase the cost of, you increase the cost of production is high, everything is chaos. So, I think they have a good idea, but strategically there is a problem. In, you know, there is a problem somewhere. There is a problem somewhere we should handle the most important things, the needs. Okay, moving on. There are so many things we are going to be looking into. A hundred days a lot has happened. We appointed 50% of women to cabinet and cabinet level portfolios. We are looking at gender representation as it has been a very strong issue in the country for many, many years and to achieve the two third gender rule he sent a proposal to parliament. Thumbs up, thumbs down, hit or miss? Miss. Miss, hit. Okay, let me start with the miss, my brother. Why do you feel so? 50% of women appointed into cabinet? They have not been appointed 50%. We haven't achieved 50% women appointed in the cabinet positions. What is the percentage? I don't have the real figure, but they are not 50%. That was a promise, that is a miss. Okay. It was a promise, but we are not seeing it. So it's a miss. Do you think we have 50% representation of women? You tell me. No, we don't. You don't see it? That is a miss. The two-thousand gender rule in parliament? Not yet. He gave them the proposal. But he has tried. His government, compared to other government, the president has tried to give the women positions, but we have not achieved the real figure. Noa, mukami? We have not achieved the figure he gave, but we are growing as a country and compared to where we are coming from, I think this is good. We had a lot of women and young women. Back then we used to have older women in the cabinet. Right now we have younger women who are giving, the youth, hope and everything. So I think we are going there and he has tried. I would give it a hit. He has tried and maybe in the next years we will get to the 50%. But he has really tried. I think he considered women. He considered women. The party, UDA considered women. It considered women so I can't complain. Okay. Gender representation, do you believe that by the time we get to the next general election we will see a lot of representation, especially on the side of women in leadership, in the government.  I don't think it will be so soon. By the time we get to the next general election, No, I don't think so. We wouldn't have achieved. No. Okay. According to history and also how he has shown because this is the real time we could have gotten the 2-3rd general as we are speaking. You are talking about according to history but I am looking at according to what has happened still in the same history. What Dr. Ruto has managed to do we are looking at him and showing that we have more women in cabinet. Two dozen general proposals has been taken to parliament. You yourself, you mentioned that this is something that hasn't happened in the previous regimes. Yes. So according to the same history you don't believe that they will manage to achieve this by the time we get the general elections in 2027? No, I don't believe so. The number will go up but not exact. I think we will achieve. There was a very high improvement this time. I think that's a hit for me. He has really tried, he has empowered women. We have women in very good positions right now. Women leadership is good. Even if we don't have the vice as a woman but I think women have been represented very well and we are growing. You don't expect us to achieve. But you don't have the real 2-3rd general representation and that is what I am saying. Could it be because of what she said you don't have the vice as a woman? No, maybe you don't have the vice as a woman. I think we can't complain. As Kenyans and women youth we can't complain. We are well represented. We are well represented and this time the turn up of women vying women in cabinet was higher than any other government.  Maybe next time we will have a woman president or a vice. If they qualify, you know. No, we qualify. We are there, we qualify. There are a lot of women who qualify. Yeah, but my problem is I am not objecting women. But they should not depend on appointments if they are able to do the work. Like those who have been appointed, thumbs up to the president. He has given women who can do the job. And it's also a positive thing that women are going into these positions. And maybe when we go forward these positions to do with women representation, women rep, we will get away with it because now it will be quality. Yeah, 50-50. And whoever wins is the best. Thank you.  Now that you don't have a deputy president as a woman, I know that was a very strong point for some women before the general election.  But they should not wait to be appointed or to be, they should come for these positions. That is my advice. I believe they are coming. They are coming, they are coming. They are coming and actually, and this is from Statser, Kenya has a lot of women CEOs. Actually, more than men, more than men. So, and actually from outsiders, maybe you might not see because you're in Kenya, but Kenyan women are very brilliant. We are very brilliant, we work very hard. And I believe very soon, very soon women will be leading this country. I believe the 2,000 general rule might be achieved very soon. It will be achieved, it will be achieved. In my opinion, though, my opinion is completely mine, I should not have given my... No, he has tried. Udea has really tried. With women it was... Even the campaigns, women were leading the campaigns very well. We saw women representation in campaigns, in gubernatoria race, we have governors as women. For the first time we have a lot of governors, women governors. So, we are heading there. We are heading there. Darin doesn't seem to believe that, but time will tell. Time will tell. Now, let's look at employment for the youth. Another issue that we are looking into, 100 days into office of the president. Remember, we are talking about 100 days, but it ended on, it laps on 13th December. That was on Tuesday, if I'm not wrong. Yes, it laps on 13th December. That's when the 100 days laps. So we are looking at the employment sector. Youths getting jobs. How has he managed to create opportunities? And I'm looking at particularly his transformation of the Kazuko Vijana initiative, where he's looking at making it into a production area, rather than consumption program. So employment, Kazuko Vijana, how has he managed to do it? From where you sit? Mokami? I think they are trying. They are trying and production is very important. So with 100 days, I can't see what they have done. I'm waiting to see what they will do. I'm waiting to see what they will do. They just launch a few things. I'm waiting to see how it's going because unemployment is very high. We have a lot of Kenyans who are unemployed and are relying on other people. So let us wait and see, but I can't see anything because the things they are focusing on are not very important. So let's wait and see. I think I will not give them a miss. I will say they are trying. So let us see. And I'm wondering what is this that you feel they are focusing on that is not important? Like something like Wi-Fi. Why are they focusing on Wi-Fi? Would I think about free internet when I'm hungry, when I don't have a job? How is free internet helping me? Nasi na kazi. Free internet. I don't understand. There are things I'm not understanding. How is NaiFest helping me as a youth in Nairobi? I'm a student. I am jobless. You're bringing a festival. How am I going to dance there hungry? So I think they should focus on more important things like employment. They are heading there. We haven't seen it yet. They're heading there. But why are they wasting money on this thing? Free internet. But you can use the internet to get online jobs. But not all of us have the knowledge about getting these online jobs. Okay. Darin. Okay. What I can say about employment. This country produces a billion plus shillings on taxes, court fines as revenue. This country is 100 billion USD GDP. But we have more than 12 million youth unemployed. Tell me what is wrong? Because we have a serious problem with unemployment. Recently at the University of Nairobi there was a certain insurance company that was doing some interviews of the jobs. The people who came to the who turned up you could not imagine old and young. In hundreds and hundreds they have come for a few jobs position. It has happened for a long time. For many years. For a long time and I tend to think that even there is a problem with our education system. It tends to bring out sophisticated hobos. Why do I say so? Because these people are programmed. We go to school and even now people are learning about the head of a locust all the rivers and mountains in Africa and also Kenya. When a five-year-old Chinese kid knows how to operate a laptop they are taught algebra and geometry. So I tend to think even our education system we need to check what are we producing and also the country should know I'm doing civil engineering at the University of Nairobi. I'm a fifth year. Then we have five thousand unemployed engineers in Kenya. Tell me when I graduate where will I get a job? The president launched the education working party on education reforms. Yes, on CBC. Yes. It was looking on CBC. He is looking into transforming the education sector. He is looking into ensuring that the education sector is well put. I think CBC is a good thing. He is mentioning education there and it reminded me of CBC and I'm wondering hasn't he made a positive step? He has made a step. But also those people should check the content of what we feed our people. At CBC there is no rating of positions and you know very well where there is no number one, two or max adding we don't have competition. We should see what are they consuming. Are we targeting what is our vision in 20 years to come 50 years to come as a nation and as a continent because the problem of the usual thinking of problem solving of our problems in Kenya are over. We need to think about the whole of the entire Africa. That is my thinking. We produce so many graduates but we don't have jobs for them. Look at Mumiya's company. There is a narrative that is going around. Sugar comes from Uganda. They are being repackaged in Kenya. Those are jobs positions young people are not benefitting from. So those are the things that we need to discuss. Where is the problem? Is the problem the jobs or is the problem we are producing more than what we need on the market. The government should know how many engineers are being produced per year. How many doctors are being and how many do we need. Do we need all these universities so that we have sophisticated hobos everybody is graduating everywhere and they don't have a place to go. That's where the discussion starts. I think the problem here is the mentality here. You don't have to be employed. We are talking about employment. We don't have to be employed and that is what we should be taught in school. In university, yes, it's very important to go to university. I don't have a problem with that. But have a mind of I can open my own business I can start my own business because let me tell you we have a lot of doctors we have a lot of teachers that are unemployed.  That means are you going to die? No. You need to have another skill and now this comes to people who did not manage to go to university and I feel like Kenya has not concentrated on polytechnics. Back then polytechnics were more were very valued where they taught driving welding, machinery. We are looking at the tivet institutions. So they need to revive they need to revive these polytechnics so that people who cannot get to university and get proper jobs can open their own businesses and the other day I was looking for a carpenter I couldn't get one. We have tivets. Ya I know, I know. But are they operation or how many? I tend to disagree with her. Okay. During the last regime of president Huru and deputy president now is our president His excellency. They pumped in money to tivets than universities. Ya I remember. Yes they pumped in money than the universities and they did a good thing but now the problem is still there. We have so many universities people are getting seized and they want to go to the university. We need to reduce the number of the universities we pump in money as they have done on tivets we get more people doing these courses but now the selected few come up to the university everybody is graduating everywhere I am telling you recently there was a everyone wants to graduate there is no problem with that but now when they are graduating what is the quality they are bringing in the society if I go to the university as Darren Hart then after five years I come out as an engineer then I am unable to bring a solution a single solution in my society. Darren let me get you clearly because I am getting confused in what you are saying in a bit and clarify this are you questioning the universities or the graduates? I am questioning the quality of education we are getting and also what the government is planning for them we are getting a big number of people graduating everywhere in the country we don't have this position of jobs in the country enough to accommodate them but also the problem from the universities what they are being taught we have seen so many youth who cannot even bring a solution in the society saying they cannot bring solutions because they are not taught solutions in school they are not producing results because if I go to the university for five years I come back in my society and I am unable to bring even a simple solution then that is zero I think what should be taught is like I said mentality people should be open minded you don't have to rely on employment you don't have to rely on I think if you are a doctor I am waiting for a certain hospital if I am a marketer employ yourself create your own job in short let me give you a living example when I was in primary school I was very young I used to see Jeff Koinange on television I still see him today tell me how many journalists will want to be in that position if they are waiting for the jobs Jeff Koinange should have his own channel by now so that he employs other journalists that is the thinking I want to bring it out should they reduce the retirement if you are thinking of employment you are challenging Jeff Koinange he should go home he should not go home to love his own channel so that more other journalists can be absorbed there let me quote Francis Atoli he said this it's too early kwa nza kukupima umefanya nini because sisi baadotu nangoja tu sikie vijana way to wengine wame pata kazi wakina malala wakina rashi de chesa na nisumu wasana kona jad that is according to Francis Atoli let's give them time because ata upiwa nangoja kona kazi kazi wata gainata pewa kazi we need more time to see how the employment sector will be transformed we should give them time personally I think we should give them time but we plan now I don't like the plan on the table the plan on the table is not very good another problem with our country is the electorate or the Kenyan citizen a large number bigger larger percentage the person or the people they should put accountable number one the problem has no problem when he intends to do something because everything passes through parliament and on the county level they pass through the MCAs an example last regime when the president gave the MCAs a car grand of 2 million did you see anywhere a single MCA objecting that idea no they did not so those are the people Kenyans have donated their sovereign power to go to office the problem is not the governor or the president the problem Kenyans need to focus on is the member of parliament and the MCAs I want us to bring this because the president cannot do anything without these people I want us to bring this discussion to a close and I want us to wrap it up by first of all getting your opinion on this one last question now that we are aware we are today yeah what more changes would you are you seeing or looking forward to when it comes to from the government side and what are your recommendations and you feel those things that you feel the government needs to prioritize so those are two questions in one one what you are looking forward to the things that you feel that the government ought to or the things you feel like the government is going to change the number to what you recommend them to prioritize let me start with you Mokami well I think right now the most important thing is we have calamities right now in our biggest calamities I would call it hunger there is hunger in the country people are hungry people don't have food first of all they should focus on the needs sometimes when you can have a plan but when there is a problem that comes in you change the game plan so right now they should focus on drought try to save people from hunger the other thing they should focus on youth empowerment youth empowerment is empowering youths by fund like what I said the hustler fund they should strategize it properly raise the limit also employ youths because we have we have the same people we had 15 years in the same offices we have so many learned youth that are jobless we have so many learned youth that don't know what to do you have your papers there you are from the best university in Kenya Nairobi University you don't have a job but there is this guy who is 60 years old and he is 20 years old so they should open these para status for us they should seriously open these jobs for us as young people and the other thing is about the integrity issue they should focus on chapter 6 of our constitution because a lot of things that are happening right now are contradicting there is a lot of rewarding going on which is not right it's not right our constitution should be respected okay what I can say what I expect moving on the government should at least revive these industries that have fallen out of hand in our country if they revive that is when the jobs will be created and also let them finish what the other regime had started like the way the deputy president was saying completing those roads then we can start a new one let's not start new projects and we have not completed the ones they started I expect the education sector to be looked in because a country that does not prioritize education is a failing country and it has no future and a society can never be better if a place that should be a center or standard of solution where policy solutions can be sorted can never be better if we get the legislature or the member of parliament they have turned that house to be the center of comedy and scandals it's 100 days but we've seen what has been happening before this thing to do with corruption the government should be very strict on those policies because a society can never be better where the standards of solution are made and policies is in a state of decay in a state of corruption and so those are the things that are killing this country because as I'm speaking to you Kenyans are very depressive they are living as predators when there's no job there's no food government should check this thing to do with the the other side of the country they are giving food to the animals a friend was telling me that where he comes in Kinangopo, Nyandarua they are cutting cabbage to cows when people are dying in Tucana is it a problem redistribution of food that we have or what those are the key things that we need to focus on even as we look into seeing more that the government is going to do remember the 100 days laps on that 10th of December we are still waiting to see how things will change it is the time of Christmas many Kenyans are still licking wounds in regards to the cost of living still high it is perhaps the most pressing issue that the president is looking to change in his administration also the issue concerning the wage bill pending bills and dealing with the mounting debt that the country is facing at the moment well time will tell whether these things will be dealt with including corruption you mentioned that corruption those are things that we are looking forward to seeing change in the coming future but of course thank you so much to everybody that was tuned in to this morning conversation right here on why in the morning we were talking about 100 days of the Kenyakwanza government in office and I was with Darren Hart my brother thank you so much for coming I appreciate your presence and the people's president Yes Asante Sana and Olivia Thank you so much for coming I appreciate your presence keep doing what you're doing and I wish you well in the coming election Thank you Ushinda Mousi Shinde Ujiha Pa Lazi Manta Shinde But we believe Rapata sure I believe in that Thank you so much and that business to the end of this discussion right here on why in the morning my name is Ram Magukul but keep tuned in because 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We're here at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, and I'm very pleased to be joining my Mr. Mohamed Al-Khanim, who is Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the UAE. Mr. Al-Khanim, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Yeah, it's good to be back again and it's good to be with you. Very nice to see you. And I'd just like to start off by talking about the theme for this event this year is embracing change in a digital world. Where do you see the biggest opportunities in that change for the industry and for society? I think the biggest era that we are now living in, the biggest thing in this era that we are living in in the telecommunication field is that it is changing. We have telecommunication companies where they built infrastructure like highways and we have over-the-top companies which they deliver the services and today there is a shift in terms of revenue making where the over-the-top companies making more revenue and more profit than the telcos who's actually building the highways. Now if you think about it for a minute you will find that you know who should pay for what but the thing is now we have an additional value proposition which is much bigger than what the telcos was thinking of by having the OTTs. So we are living in a telecommunication environment where now the market has over the past years enlarged by so many folds where has created so many opportunities, jobs. There has been a lot of innovation and I think that that can get bigger than what classically was driven by only voice, data and SMS. So today we are having an opportunity for OTTs, an opportunity for telcos. The thing is about the financial equation where where's going to go the world will require fiber so who's going to pay for this fiber and how the let's say the business model is going to has to change in order to fit the circumstances. And what do you think of the biggest threats to this change? Okay now we are we are living into an open data environment and we are driven by the customer the customer is uploading all his information into the net. So the driver for future economies is the internet as we see it right now and the biggest threat is privacy and data protection. We have a lot of companies where we have they gather big data so and they are called big data companies. So the privacy of the consumer is the most important part where we consider it as a threat because it's a threat to the customer privacy. We have information which cross borders countries so your information is stored somewhere globally you don't know where it is in one of these servers somewhere under a completely different jurisdiction than your own place. If your privacy has been breached it's becoming so complex and trying to resolve it if you report it to the police or to the court in your jurisdiction. So this is the biggest issue that we face right now and hopefully we will get into a global model where we can solve it. And bringing it back closer to home what is the TRA doing to embrace this change? We are we are doing different things now in the UAE we have the Prime Minister declared that we will transform the government to smart government so we are upgrading the e-services to become smart and we are we are planning to transform all the government services to be delivered through mobile phone and that's given to us within two years time frame. So this is one of the biggest opportunities and interesting challenge that we have. The second thing is the declaration of the Prime Minister and the ruler of Dubai to transform Dubai to a smart city which is again following the smart government move but it's also on a much bigger scale. We have all the enablers on ground. We are working on the on the road map and hopefully we will we'll have that happening. Now the key issue here is the society. So the society is something that we need to work on in order to educate them on how to use these services on smart platforms. And finally I'd like to ask you what is the value in your opinion of attending events such as ITU Telecom World 2013 for example which we're here and I know that you travel a lot and you attend a number of events so we'd very much like to hear your opinion on that. It's always it's always good to to do knowledge sharing. Now whether you give knowledge or you receive knowledge and with the platform that we have in the ITU Telecom World every year, it's enhance enhancements of communication with our with our colleagues everywhere in the world. We're becoming such a small planet that that we need to learn from each other and it's open. It's transparent. It's really nice platform that we exchange information. We exchange models fit them according to our our need. At the same time we have models. We have experiences. We have we have projects that we can share it with with our colleagues from different countries. I think this is the right platform to to to come and to share knowledge with other people. Thank you very much. Deep English today. Thank you.


¿Qué tal amigos?  Happy to be here Yeah, like Evan said today, we're talking at Theorium.org my favorite subject Let's see if I can figure out this thing Good start. Okay. There we go. All right.  If you haven't yet, you should come by our booth pick up some swag Maybe raise your hand if you're interested in maybe Contributing to ethereum.org. Cool. All right. I'll try to increase that Hand count with this talk. So quick agenda That's me shilling ethereum.org to you and then maybe some time for questions at the end But probably not because I tend to talk too much. So Really the goals of this talk Like ethereum.org as a project has evolved over the years And I think it's helpful context both for potential contributors existing contributors But also just other projects in the space that often have to create, you know, like Educational content trying to be, you know, credible and trustworthy So I'm I'm hoping that kind of going through some of the history Some of the direction of where I think we're heading with ethereum.org Yeah, hopeful that'll provide some useful insight for the folks here so The way I at least think about ethereum.org and this is just my opinion. This isn't any official stance of the ethereum foundation But I kind of look at at early history Up until 2018 kind of present day Really the last three years that I've been working on it at least somewhat shifting into a new direction Um and then you know from where we are today until you know decades millennia from now Where does ethereum.org go in the future? So Let's start with the past And as often as useful with the past we can check out the good old way back machine Yeah, shout out to bruster kale over here Hero of the internet Internet archive and crew I actually saw bruster at breakfast today, but I was too embarrassed to come say hi, so I love you bruster though. You're you're a good man So you can check out, you know early days of ethereum.org from a placeholder website in early 2014 to you know, like alpha client release ether sale network launch And even as you know, if you saw aya's talk in the opening ceremonies You know coming as like current day to like 2018 interesting to kind of check out the website and just like See what it's about see what's mentioned As she kind of brought up I think a big theme And Not that this was wrong at all. I think it was perfectly adequate for the time and you know Where ethereum as a project was and where the community was You know the website was open source, but it was pretty much Driven by the ethereum foundation Tens of contributors a few pages of content Pretty much all the projects mentioned on the website were built by folks Primarily within the foundation, you know download a client Download a wallet Run said client Write smart contracts with a programming language Deploy it using tooling Read content and documentation Pretty much all largely built by the ethereum foundation and again Not a bad thing just kind of a reflection of where things were at that point in time And I think like the short gist is like ethereum.org basically was the ethereum foundation Which you know kind of moving to the present day over the past three years Where we've tried to kind of shift this Is really to more of a community driven initiative And you know here's a a blog post launch from april 2019 And I think that you know a little tagline Built by the community for the community. I think really tries to capture that ethos well um And what you know folks did even before I joined was Start a new website Basically a blank slate. It was five pages of content pretty sparse But started with like a new mission and a set of principles that you know what like we want to create this as a community project It's a public educational good. It's built in the open with the community's help Like ethereum the ecosystem the goal was to iterate evolve experiment over time And and grow and evolve with ethereum so Kind of looking at how that manifests today, you know Whether you're looking to get eth in columbia Buy some lunch with it. Maybe who knows find a wallet compare different options Explore applications built on ethereum that you can use today You can tell the kind of general theme here is like different from those 2018 screenshots like We list all ecosystem built projects, right? Like basically Not much is built by the foundation these days And I think that's a testament just to like the incredible growth strength of this ecosystem Very exciting to be a part of Yeah, hundreds of pages thousands of contributors at this point Millions of people visit the website each month again largely thanks to you folks in this room for just Making ethereum a sweet place to be um And I think yeah, the main just again of this second present-day era is really ethereum.org is separate from ethereum foundation It's yes There is a core team I am one of them. I'm one of the fortunate few who gets to you know get paid to work on this full time But it's a very small core team currently 10 of us um, and again compare that to The nearly 1,000 contributors from code to content on github 4,000 plus translators all volunteers who are helping you know Spread the gospel educate the people on on the good stuff that is ethereum um So here kind of wanted to spend some time of just like The nuances of how do you try to create this? credible platform Largely content and education I think in some ways it's fair to compare us to like a a web 2 marketplace of sorts You know, I showed screenshots where we show different products show different wallets um But you know, we don't make money. We don't run affiliate marketing campaigns We don't get kickbacks from clients for downloading a specific one um And I think a lot of open source projects a lot of ecosystems within the ethereum space Kind of wrestle with these similar tensions or considerations and Yeah, just figured it'd be worth Hopefully generating some discussion on So first wanted to talk about credible neutrality Maybe something you've heard about before Some guy named Vitalik wrote a good post about it in early 2020 um It's about mechanism design and You know, he's largely talking about blockchain protocols in this article But I think it does apply pretty well to A website like ethereum.org where we're trying to build um You know this trustworthy neutral platform um In that post he mentions, you know, like four steps to to go through Basically Don't discriminate Make it transparent and and auditable Keep it simple and try not to change it um For us in practice, I think we do this pretty well I would say like the one kind of nuance here is like In reality, we do want specific outcomes um Vitalik even mentions in the post, you know, like A mechanism can be totally incredibly neutral And it can also still be horrible. So like we don't want To create a horrible website Um, we do want to avoid discrimination. We don't want to be king makers We don't want to send all traffic to one wallet or one client We do want certain outcomes. I think at a very hand-wavy level, you know, we want to spread ethereum values um such as promoting decentralization And creating a decent ux, right? Like we could be totally neutral again But if it's a super shitty website that everyone bounces from And no one starts learning about ethereum, I think we're kind of failing In what we're trying to do here. So Again examples of how that manifests, you know, like we do encourage people to run their own node um We talk about the benefits of doing that We we do explain the benefits of staking on ethereum And we do show somewhat of a hierarchy of like different ways you can do that You know ranking things from Most trust assumptions or least trust assumptions to most So there are some opinions we kind of put into the product And I think just recognizing that we aren't a hundred percent neutral And we have no opinions of our own. I think that's just Not really fair to say. I think the importance is just being transparent about it. Um Going further just showing some pooled staking products. For instance, you can see we do try to guide the user on like considerations Involved with some of these some of these products So the approach we basically take We think it's okay to you know, be opinionated about for instance the listing criteria as we make How a product gets added and listed on ethereum.org But as much as we can be neutral and objectively evaluate those projects against that listing criteria we create And again make the make the process transparent So going back to here again, you can see We choose What projects are being evaluated on based on input from the community? Um, and then try to objectively assess those those projects And we make it transparent anyone can see our listing policies Anyone can propose changes Anyone can submit an issue Suggest additions or edits. Um, and we think that's kind of a healthy way to Turn nurture that content Second up subtraction Aya and others have also touched on this I think it's a good general ethos of the ethereum foundation as a whole ethereum.org very much inherits that of like We're not trying to be the end all be all only place you go to monolithic website To do all your ethereum stuff, right? We see ourselves as like a limited product Focused on specific areas You know, where do we uniquely add value? This is largely areas that companies aren't incentivized to actually do Often, you know public goods Falls into this bucket. There's just maybe not enough incentives not enough resources to uh to tackle this Thinking through, you know, where does it make sense for us to focus our efforts? Where can we make the best impact? um And how do we kind of over time slowly reduce Our relevance, you know, again, I mentioned we have a core team of 10 right now um Sometimes there's considerations of like Are we trying to go far? We're trying to go fast, right? Like we could ship this feature. We could write this content immediately or very quickly If we just did it ourselves But if we do want to build a growing community a sustainable community Reduce the reliance of core contributors over time. Um, these are some like questions questions we think through So examples of yeah, where we see ourselves in a unique position to add value. I think You know, 2019 it was very simple There was a lot of low hanging fruit. There just wasn't a lot of great content out there Covering some of the basics of ethereum. I mean shout out to the ethub guys who like very much carried that weight in a big way I think like 2018 2019 and beyond But to create content that just explains some of the basics to to get over the obstacles and the fears of like How do I break into this magic internet money crazy landscape? Um developer documentation was another big one I don't know if there's any other devs who were super frustrated back in 2018 of just outdated medium posts Libraries that completely broke their apis. No way to keep stuff up to date No way to translate that updated information So that was like really the base foundation of like where it made sense in our eyes of like, okay, there's some basic neutral Simple information that we can provide we can translate Where to focus our efforts? This is something we think about right? There's tons of projects in the space at this point Where does it make sense for us to focus? I think layer two Is one good example, you know over the past year or so Fees getting crazy high people couldn't even use the network Educating users encouraging them to like hey, these are you know early days for these projects but maybe worth checking out as a way to You know to to use use the protocol Similarly, you know, I think a good example of fear is like we have a listing criteria What layer twos we show? And as part of that we basically just say like hey If you're listed on l2beat.com That's one of the criteria for getting included on ethereum.org And I think that's a good example of subtraction and in the sense of like Recognizing hey, there's another cool project that has a team of experts that have a fairly robust framework Analyzing the risks of different layer two protocols We don't have that expertise in house. We could hire for that But maybe we could just collaborate with teams in the space where it makes sense And I think that's a good example of such a collaboration And lastly just an example of yeah, again, how do we think about Going far versus going fast We publish, you know our product roadmaps every quarter on github We try to do our best to like where it makes sense Engage the community, you know recently we chose to migrate to a new UI library Trying to like increase accessibility on the website And we like called out to the community of developers of like hey you want to Help us migrate a bunch of components people could sign up on github We created documentation around how to do this We answered questions and discord from people looking to learn how to do this This took a lot of time Pablo our developer leading this project could have just cranked out all of this on his own Probably a lot faster than it took otherwise But through this process, you know, we got tens of contributors who are now regularly coming back Looking to continue their typescript chops, you know looking to improve as a react developer Some of the core team from chakra has now gotten involved and like collaborating with us in this front So I think this is another good example of just like It sucks up front to just like invest in The education the outreach To really bring in people who who want to contribute But if you're thinking about the long run, this can be a very effective way to grow that community over time third reinventing the wheel Real quickly, I think like cryptos reinventing many industries Education doesn't necessarily need to be one of them There's a lot of great resources out there of like, hey crowd sourced educational public good content Mozilla developer network in particular was a huge source of inspiration for us They've just done an awesome job for almost multiple decades at this point in terms of just like Volunteer driven community documenting web standards Um translating that content doing a kick-ass job of just like providing excellent resources Here you can see an mdn page Here you can see an ethereum.org page Looks pretty similar Shout out to ryan cordell He's here Who designed this page for us? Also carl faircloth and alex sim helped us with a lot of designs in the early days and just kind of like Basic techniques again learning from other projects not reinventing the wheel. Hey make a big edit button on your page, right? Make it one two Three clicks to open a pull request. Wow. Look at that um And you know, that's not the only reason that we've seen growth and contributions from the community over time. Obviously Bull markets help, you know hype around the protocol helps Um, but from you know, just like open issues and prs even by individual contributors You can see here like it helps to proactively engage people and get them involved to get them empowered Very much along those lines community engagement Here's some ways that you can contribute to theorem.org You can learn more there Hundreds of pages of content again thousands of contributors 50 languages supported um We're pretty active in discord and twitter um and Basically given as many avenues as possible to like potentially recruit people who who want to who want to get involved I think a big one is just recognizing that Different people are motivated in different ways, right? Like It's sweet to get paid. Sure. Some people want rewards, but Others want just recognition Some people just want access some people want to learn some people want to teach um, some people just want to feel heard and heckle us on twitter, you know, that's okay That's contributing in your own way um So I guess my tip on this would just be Experiment with different approaches along those lines um And we have in the past, you know, whether it's bug bounties similar to the the protocol bug bounties themselves um, you know just recognition of Contributions through leaderboards on the website Offering certificates to translators who can then put that on their linkedin or on their resume Simple shoutouts to people on the website for helping out Open community calls. I think Again pretty basic stuff for a lot of open source Web three projects these days um But just being available having an open discord. I think can go a long way Poops who here likes poops? Love those poops Get poops all sorts of poops Jobs. Yeah. I mean I mentioned we have a core Group of 10 people. I'm super proud that you know half of us started as open source contributors Just helping out on the website The theorem foundation does hire Our team's not actively hiring right now But I think the general rule of thumb is like we do view a theorem dot org contributions as like a great talent funnel um, and we do try to empower regular contributors And if they're looking for work full time in the space like that stuff we do try to try to help out with so I think Sure, it is tough and I recognize not everyone can always work for free and open source It's a lot to ask But if if you're looking to get full time in the space I think a great way can just be getting your hands dirty contributing to projects even if it's just you know Content translations design Code what have you last piece to touch on here? Translations Big kudos to taean kim um A good friend who really advocated for this translation program on a theorem dot org in the early days When I think like myself included just didn't recognize The importance of it. I mean It seemed simple now and obvious now of like, okay. Hey, there's six billion humans on the on the earth that don't speak english And even the ones who do actually prefer reading and learning in their native language So it takes work, right? But like Putting in that effort up front early recruiting people Getting excited volunteers who maybe want to learn by translating Has definitely paid big dividends and just a quick look at just kind of Visits to ethereum.org over time. I mean, there's a lot of fascinating Stories in this data that I don't have time to go into Bull markets NFTs the merge all that fun stuff But I think one narrative in particularly that's really exciting Is translations and like consumption of translated content over time So this is excluding english and looking at the same chart just taking out english It's breaking down by a bunch of different languages But you can see overall Where the trend is going. We just had you know another record month for translated content last month Um Very much a manatee a vanity metric, but you can see the progression over time This is looking at like percent of total page views to the website um We've had record on record months For the past year plus we just passed like over 25 percent of content on ethereum.org Is viewed um in languages other than english, which I think is not too surprising but definitely exciting Here's a quick breakdown. I'm running out of time But I think the short gist on this is like If you don't have a localization strategy, like you're not going to make it it is super important For the future of your project My teammate luka who runs our translation program has a talk on this tomorrow Highly encourage you to check that out Real quick because I think I'm almost out of time But talking about the future Where could this go? I mean The lame and wavy answer here is like ultimately it's up to you like again We publish our roadmap as a team On github We try to solicit as much input from possible from the community. What should we we be working on? Where should we be going not just the content not just the features on the website? But really anything you want to get involved with Whether it's general feedback You know joining community calls All that good stuff I mean a few main areas like we'll definitely be thinking about and would love input from you folks on is just like How do we continue to progressively push and empower the community to like take over more and more of this project? you know, we've been experimenting with Bringing new roles in such as language leads, you know power contributors of sorts who Who operate certain areas giving them more authority more power same thing with github and content contributions Third-party educators is one I'd like Love to explore. I think translating content from english to other languages is great But I I don't think we can pretend like that misses a lot of just like the cultural nuance And understanding of like what is the best way to communicate to this region to this language It's probably not just taking english content and translating it into that language. It probably deserves dedicated teams Thinking through who understand how to communicate to a particular group of people um So, yeah, how do we get there? Hopefully with your help, um Would love to get you involved Again, we have a booth Third floor come chat with us tomorrow would love to would love to hear from you But if we have time for questions, maybe we do maybe we don't would love to chat. We don't okay. I'm done I'll go now. Thank you


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Alrighty, so we have some fresh leaks coming out of the Six Flags in Busch Gardens Parks. So starting with Seaworld and San Diego, I think I said Six Flags, but it's Seaworld and Busch Gardens. So Seaworld San Diego in 2019 looks like it's getting a Skywarp Horizon attraction. That's really interesting. So it looks gorgeous. I love the theming. I love how Seaworld does that blue overwater work. And then with the rock work as well, it always looks amazing. I love how they do that. So it's a Skywarp Horizon flat ride roller coaster dynamic. It has airtime hills and banked curves and inversion. So that's really exciting for them. I wasn't expecting that coming in 2019. So that's awesome. It looks like Seaworld San Antonio is getting a massive wooden coaster for 2020. It's going to be 100 feet tall, approximately, if not more, give or take. It's to be discussed 50 to 55 miles per hour, again, to be discussed, located in a new turtle realm area of the park. And they're looking for the longest wooden coaster in Texas. So that's really exciting. It looks like a GCI. Correct me down below if I'm wrong, but to me that screams GCI based off of these poor quality renderings that have leaked. But yeah, that's really exciting. It looks phenomenal. It looks like it has a really big out and back layout here. Yeah, that just looks amazing. I can't tell too much, but definitely looks like something I would go check out for sure next year, or I should say in 2020, not next year. And then we have Busch Gardens Williamsburg. So this is where it gets really exciting. So opening May 2020, you have a 76 mile per hour multi launch shuttle coaster. It's a family thrill coaster, apparently. And the fastest, fastest coaster in Busch Gardens Williamsburg. And as seen in this rendering, it's the final drop and max speed seen from Italy Bridge. Now, to me, this has SNS written all over it. In fact, this has like soaring with dragon also written all over it, in my opinion. Definitely want to hear from you guys down below what you think. But it looks like an SNS coaster and soaring with dragons, esk style coaster. And I think SNS is killing it. Steel Curtain and, oh man, I just had a total brain fart there. So Steel Curtain and Max Force look like amazing rides coming in 2019. And now they're getting rides out there for 2020 that also look amazing. Absolutely looking forward to what SNS has to offer. SeaWorld Orlando in 2020, it looks like they're getting a coaster, a launch coaster, airtime and bank turns and versions to be discussed. Fifty five miles per hour and the location isn't yet announced. Now, this one's a little trickier, more tricky. I don't know exactly what the manufacturer is. It's a little more difficult to tell in this rendering. I can't tell if it's SNS or Premier rides. So I want your help down below. What do you guys think? Is this Premier rides or SNS? It's very confusing to me. But nonetheless, it looks like it has kind of a Max Force vibe to it, in my opinion. This almost looks very similar to Max Force, if not, it's almost like Max Force and West Coast racers mixed together, in my opinion, based off of this one really poor quality image. But this looks like a really exciting year for SeaWorld and Bush Gardens as a whole. And if it almost looks like every park, almost every park is getting a coaster in 2020 and the park and chain is doing really well. So I'm really excited to see what they have up their sleeves. I really want to see. I was really hoping for see Bush Gardens Tampa. I wanted to see if their coaster leaked at all in these PowerPoint presentation, wherever it's from. But it looks like it didn't. I'll keep my eye out and I'll definitely release a video if that happens because I'm very curious about that, as I'm sure all of you are. But yeah, definitely comment down below what you guys think of these additions coming to SeaWorld and Bush Gardens. I think I said Six Flags at the very beginning of the video. I'm so sorry. But yeah, hopefully you enjoyed this video. Give the video a like. Subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to watch. And as always, thanks for watching, guys, and have a good one. Bye.