There you go. Here's today's modern-day parenting. Kids running around, like lunatics, undisciplined. Look at somebody else's property of course, all right. Look at this unsupervised. It's the product of modern-day parenting, you know, with the millennials and it's incredible. It's incredible, really. It's unsupervised.  There we go. It's still happening too. It hasn't stopped around and around and around. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And of course, the guardians and or the parents say absolutely nothing about it. Absolutely nothing about it. No disciplinary action. And they're told to stop by the staff and nothing's happening.  It's a paper. It's a paper. It's a paper for others to enjoy. If nobody touches it, it's not going to smell or do anything to you. It's like if you bought a science magazine, did the same thing. They don't get it. They don't get it. Like I said, I can't get through to people. That's why I become bitchier and bitchier. Why, why in tarnation do they need to throw it in the garbage? It's just beyond me. Guy buys today's newspaper. He leaves it for others. People, people, people, other people buy it. I can't, I just can't, I can't understand the logic of it. People buy today's newspaper and then throw it in the garbage. That was bad. That's it. You can't get through to people.  No, you can't get through to people. It's called ignorance. Well, they should have the conscience in the common sense and know this. You can't get through. Why, why do you need to teach people kindness and manners? Because you can't get through to people. Evidently not. That's the model. There's no argument. You can't get through to people. I mean, we don't think that way. Well, you do. I'm going to keep going on with you. Yeah, but I would never throw away today's newspaper. No, but certain thing I keep telling you my buddies are coming in the morning. Right?  I said, no, we discuss things. We discuss everything. Yeah. They're like, my God. Unlike, unlike, unlike a lot of people. And that's how, that's how we talk and meet new people. Unlike a lot of people on social media that post what they had for lunch or cute kittens. Look how adorable my kitten is. We talk, we talk about deep subjects. Everything. What's going on? We see on our news.  What's your opinion? I just learned something new on, on, on this TV right before you got here. I didn't know that black pepper enhances the effectiveness of tumeric spice tumor. That's another one. What was somebody saying today? What do we really know? I mean, they say this, they used to say that about selenium and vitamin E selenium enhances the effect of nothing about vitamin E. Well, it's not in Vogue anymore. It was a flavor of the week.  It said, it said, it does.  No, no, no, stop with the proof.  Oh, I know they're lying fucks. Do you? And they're greedy. How do you know? Every year, the golden parachutes and the over overpaid overrated CEOs. Yes. But what's that mean? The whole corporation is bad. Not everyone. Well, they, there you go. I don't know.   Turning of herbs, you know, somebody with cancer can't wait that long to have a well met. Well, medical marijuana does the short cancer cells. That was proof. That's just a thing that's been known for a long, long time. That's that's no creation by a vitamin company. No. So that's my point. These people go, look at all these flavors of the day. You don't hear a thing about the young. Well, and oncologists, where they, where they go? An alternative oncologist told me it depends on what kind of cancer the person has. Yeah. And you see how viable is this guy? You know, that's one guy's opinion. He has a huge success rate. He's out there. I wonder, sort of like I had off Houston. Remember him, that guy, and that it was thought he was a fraud. Okay. So he was the biggest. He was a quiet. He was a quack. Well, no, his stuff didn't really do as well as his claims were. That was a big thing. Oh, whatever happened to a member of Laetrile V17 member of Steve, actor Steve McQueen, uh, was cancer and he took it. 15 Russian penicillin. That's gone. Well, Laetrile is from Apricot pits. Um, yes, but the problem is so with cyanide.  The seed has a lot of cyanide in it. There are so many, so few who have been done by alternative medicine. And a lot of that, I think is placebo effect. Well, you have to be suspicious of that, which is patented because I don't think there are any alternative medicines that are. No, no, you can't. How can you patent mother nature? Well, because they call it he and this and that. I mean, a lot of your drugs today are made from plant based formulas. Yeah. They actually do it. They actually have a patented drug Omega three fish oil. That's advertised on TV. Well, they say that's not as good as it is. Pure krill. So krill is even. Well, krill is number one. Who's right? Krill and Krill also. The big thing was ginkgo for the people to mention. Ginkgo bulb and erectile dysfunction. They didn't do a thing because extremities and circulation. They found it did nothing. I mean, for circulation, who found the government independent labs that took it and tried to test this stuff doesn't do it. So independent labs that do double blind placebo studies. They're all because be careful with the FD with the FDA. But what about what do they say? You think everything's bad? I think I think more people are paid off them. We then we think but not all not all. So who do you believe?  It depends on the credentials and the reputation like like if it's like if an organization that's known to certify organic food is famous. And they got their stamp. They found organic food doesn't mean Jack. Well, it means it's not genetically modified. It means nothing. It means nothing. Just like you're buying fresh produce. No, you're not. The best thing you can get is a can or frozen. I love frozen produce. The last thing you want is fresh because that's been sitting on how many docks that have to go and transit on a plane or a truck or whatever. That stuff could be so damn old. Right. And yeah, and frozen produce is vine ripened. That's my point. It's vine ripened. My point is people think they're buying fresh but you're not. You're not. Even a tomato and a can is vine ripened and then pick I told did I tell you about tomatoes and a can? Well, it could be preservatives and salt. But it was in a can and have five times more like a pink like our citizens that are fresh tomatoes minus. It's called like a pink doesn't matter. It's five. No, you're a man of science. It's like a pink. It doesn't matter what it is. It's got five times more anti-carcinogen. Yes, it's a it's a carotenoid to be exact. Carotenoid. Yeah, carotenoid. No, the point that's not the point. The point is people think can or this do much salt. No, it doesn't have that much salt. Where do you people keep getting this from? I keep saying, where do you get it from? Because you have a strong belief and trust in corporate.  I respect that. Well, there's your thing of course. I respect that. I think they're bunch of liars. But it's healthier in can or frozen. Remember what you told me which is over a year ago. I remember what you told me. You told me how do we know if a lot anything what's on the label is actually inside? You know, who took it to a lab and had it tested a lot have but then they found a lot of it's not in there what's been claimed. Yeah, well, the vitamin shop got caught. That was in Let's Live magazine. I told you that one guy told me the two tops are going way downhill. Sogar and twin legs twin legs way down and now forget about it. CVS wall GNC Walgreens Walmart. You don't know what you target they all got caught. I was warned years ago by somebody's and you're probably just getting stems.  Well, you know, it's just drunk. It's drunk. You're buying drunk. It's like a like an auto again. You tell people I can't get through to it. It's like an auto company have advertising that their car gets 50 miles to the gallon on a highway. And it doesn't. That's that's that's fraud again. Well, that's why they've been caught. Look at the flies. Hey, look at the right. Am I right? The flies a page.   I mean, when Ron Popeel smacked his showtime grill with a hammer and said, look, how do we know that wasn't a plastic hammer when he whacked the glass?  I don't you know, but we don't know. That's right. That's right. That's the point. That's my point.  You have to you have to live one day at a time and go on with your life. New wave oven. Everybody I know that's got one my father. I would have reviews on the new wave oven. Phenomenon. They've been great, right? Okay. All right.  That's why I I respect reviews. I go on Amazon. Listen, my uh, listen, farb aware, electronic cars, all the best things I've ever farb aware indoor grill. Yeah. Best things I've ever you know, I gotta look that up because I never seen them advertise that. I guess they sell so much that we'll have to farb aware indoor smokeless electric. Well, it's not called that. I think it's called electric. Parth. Parth. Okay. But it has it has grill bars. Everything is surgical steel. So a whole thing you can just take except for the the heating element, the the entire rest of it can go right into the and it has a drip pan for the fell and they're right. There's not one bit of smoke in the whole house. Now, now it's phenomenal. Hmart, the Korean market, they have so many electric grills. Yeah. Okay. Korean. Yeah. I I go by the brand name farb aware and no, I don't care what they've got.  It got rusty. Okay, but why is this so phenomenal? But otherwise, there are other products. And now why are all these coffee drips and curd which I did test? I don't like odds. The best coffee maker, the best tasting coffee I've ever had is the old fashioned with a plastic top boot proof proof purple layer. Oh, I love those. That's the only thing that works. And you know what? And that is old metal. You pour it right in there, your coffee, put it in with the water and bam, even my mom and dad's I've never had coffee. We're right now. Right now, I only see the glass ones at Walmart, but I know which ones you're talking about. No, it cannot be glass. Yeah, because it breaks so easily. It's gotta be the whole stainless steel. A percolate old fashioned percolator on the stove is the number one. No, not on the stove. Electric. Oh, that one. Yeah. Oh, we had one for so many years. Well, eventually they they burn out. No, they don't. Well, ours was a presto. No, mine was a presto company burned out. I think mine might have been farb aware again. I'm not sure. Well, when you're dealing with it, it was all stainless steel and had that little yeah. Classic. We've seen something blooping up. Yeah. Right. You can hear hiss go and that's that. Yeah, because I had the heating element. I made coffee like nothing. Now, what you're supposed to do with those appliances is occasionally you're supposed to put like white vinegar and get the yeah, but that's in the instruction manual. The limestone. The limestone. Well, you know that. Yeah. It's in the all I all I know is this one was presto is popular, but you don't need to put your what you just said you don't have to do it. Well, it burnt out. If you clean it regularly anyway. Yeah, if I did, I got a brush and I did the little holes underneath the more the more the more moral. Yeah, yeah. The moral of the story is it's great that we have online reviews from real people giving reviews with their names and everything. So don't trust reviews. Well, you have to do the overall. You gotta I know you. Look, it's your opinion. If you have that much faith and faith in corporate, that's your that's your take on how many people have a bad experience with one doctor, but 10,000 have a great experience with the same dog. I've seen reviews on doctors the same way. Who do you believe the dentist? It happened with the dentist. I'm looking for new dentists. What do you believe?  Why is that? Well, what Amazon does is they give the they give an overall average. In other words, if one person bashes you and a dozen people love you. But I wonder what they would give like the Kuriga? I don't like Kuriga. I don't like any way the pods taste. Oh, by the way, Braun from Germany is a high quality company. Well, everything from Deutschland is high quality. The other company that does very well is Brethren. Let me tell you something. If it wasn't for the scientists that came out of Nazi Germany, we would have no space program.  We want to make a bet. Germany is what made the U.S. space program. The genius Werner von Braun. The genius Werner von Braun. Yeah, what did he say? How did he did it? He got advice from elsewhere. He admitted it. It wasn't him. Tesla. How did you do it? I had a lot of help. He put it in the corner. The aliens. The whole part of it. And they blew him off when he made that statement. The government blew him off. That's like the point. The point is, he admitted that he had to be there. He is not that brilliant. You just said everything from Germany. No, he had help. Well, they are statistically pretty good with science. But we're not so bad, are we? And you know what? That thing about the government dismissing extra terrestrials, it's not just the United States. We've been missing this. Dismissing it. The validity of extra terrestrials. It's been uncovered so much. The government's all over the world. I want to talk about it. That's right. It's been uncovered, Jimmy. There's no such thing as dismissal anymore. People don't buy dismissals. Oh, you know what? That's a good question. Do you think that the government's, collectively, dismissing extra terrestrial existence and contribution is because they're protecting the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican? Because if, uh, huh? No, you're going to go back and forth and go around. Well, no, it's here it goes. It's going. Because they would totally blow them out of the water. If the evidence came out. Outside of real valid, yes. Well, I'm staring at it. It's going clockwise. I'm not really. No, it's back and forth at an angle. Does it have to do with organized religion? Okay, ask what I always use my for. What's that? Are any of the world's religions correct or right? Are any of the world's religions correct or right? Mm-hmm. It's going counter. Well, it's a no. Go back to the follow-up I always use.   Well, Jesse Ventura says that. Maybe to control a weak-minded people or to control the masses? The majority of humanity is weak-minded. Okay, follow up with what you just said. Stop. Okay. The vast majority of humans don't have a clue. The vast majority of humans in general do not have a clue. Is this true? Okay. All right. Oh, it's really. It's really going clockwise now. It's going. Oh, it's turning. Oh, yeah, it's going. Most people just don't get it, do they? Most people just don't get it, do they? They don't get it. Well, that's why they use the term sheeple and lemmings today. Sheeple. Like, like... Can I try? Can I try? Yeah, sure.  Cause, boy, you, could you lace the reality about the Catholic priest? Do they just want to pray for me? The Catholic priest? Yeah. You know. Most people just don't get it, do they? Even though I wanted to get it, look at that. Look at that. Yeah, see, it's easier when you're looking down to, you know. Not to swing those, you know. Oh, that's a definite, that's a definite. Most people just don't get it. There you go. Is there, is, is advertisement fraud more common than people think? We'll have to just for verification. Yes. Yeah, because they probably know that most will not take the product to a lab. Good, I don't know. Well, to test, to test the bullet, sure is a lot of lawytering kids around, lawytering kids around here. I mean, to test something properly, you got to do at least a double blind placebo study. But who knows, we don't know how much they're studying. The way more than they are required to do. We're not there. No, we're not. I hear consumer reports, they just don't stop. They care everything apart and go through it. You know who got caught as a, a biased liar? Snopes. Is a website called Snopes? Never heard of them. Well, they're, they're, they're kind of like a consumer report. Never heard of them. Yeah, they're called Snopes.com. They were, they were caught being paid off to give their opinion. That's all your scam organization.  Yeah, and, and that, and that, that makes people mistrust so much that who knows, maybe that's why 63% didn't bother to vote in the last major election. You know, it's terrible. It's, it's, it's, it's sad because- I'm going to have a hard time going around this if he rubs again. And what's with Melania's jacket, an 85 degree weather? It says, I don't care on it. You know what that was about. What was that about? That's not like her either. I don't get it. She's not that kind of a person. So it wasn't be, maybe it had another meaning or it was just the jacket she wore? I, I, I hear she's been bucking, has with her husband often. Well, they sleep the second. I didn't know that. Well, something's wrong with that picture. Oh man. Well, remember the, remember the time when he walked out of Air Force One and, and she was like- No, no, no. Also, she was like 50 feet behind him. He tried to hold her hand. I think she's been told you have to stay, stay because it doesn't look good. Well, and with her provocative photos. I mean, I'll come all provocative. I mean, risky. That's nothing. It's almost like rooms I had getting fired. I told people, we discussed. I said, look, I have been one of the biggest. I just can't stand her. Rosanne could care less. She's a little, money. Money's got nothing to do with it. I said, you're missing the point, Jimmy. Yeah. I said, what I told, I don't care about Rosanne. I can't care. But what's fair is fair.  You're wrong.  You don't fire her for- But that's Rosanne's humor. No, it's not the point. That's how she is. No, it's not her humor. She's bipolar. That was part of her illness. And I said, you don't fire somebody for this. I said, that's, that's the point.  Fire them, fire them. I said, stop it. You don't fire people for having an opinion and being protected by the First Amendment. Well, no, you got limits to all of your amendments. You got limits.  You got limits, you got limits. But then again, that was his opinion that it's- It's also, no, you cannot run into the old adage. You cannot run into a movie theater that's crowded and you don't fire. You can't do that.  Maybe, maybe the man's executive director, is his comeback.   So he shouldn't be exposed.  Don't say a word. Are you jeopardizing your job?   So, you know- Why are these guys going to be crying to me? You know, he could sue that company for First Amendment- Why are these people going to be crying to me? I'm going to tell- I just brought a store today, made $3,200. Oh, that's it. Well, that's my point.  I'm starting to get through to you and you keep going on- What I'm saying is that, that man- You're not listening. I am listening. But you keep making- But that man can sue for violation of the First Amendment. Maybe you lose it too. The point is, don't go advertising everything you do. That's all it's- Oh! It's that cut and dry circle.  Really? Why? What is this? It hurts you for people to blout. Because they know they have a First Amendment right to blout. Oh, they don't have a right. It's limited. You better watch what you blout because it's called being sued for liable. No, you wouldn't have sued for liable. But what if you can prove your gossip is true? Are you willing to spend how much per hour for an attorney and go through a whole court thing for years and years and years? Why do you think things get settled out of court? What are you- This is what you want. You want to open your mouth. That legal system is what you want now. Act up, people.  And don't give me any yebuts. Go hear yebut. No. Go yebut.  End of argument. Don't say a word. They don't- They just forget it like they forget it. You don't say all this comes back to my dad? You just can't get through to people. You just can't. Well then what- Why even have the First Amendment then? It should be- It was written how long ago. It should be- It has been amended. It does have appendices to it too. Certain things you can and cannot do. That's why you have liable in the whole. You can't. There is no- It's not true anymore.  It's the wrong thing. You are liable. Is that the point? You can't. Especially you're under the spotlight.   Like a politician has to mind their p's and q's in public. You can't. You can't. Just don't open your mouth. Yeah.  Think about it. Why do you have to open your mouth? Expression of the realities.  You're robbing the bank and the rule of things. Oh, that's dumb.  Well, that's my client.  I get it. It comes back to how many times I just said to you.  Don't say it. But they've got the yak. They've got the yak. They've got the yak. We're expecting my father. You just can't get through to people. But we all- You want them? That's true. But we also- We tell them and they will not accept it. Well, we also don't live in a fascist regime either. It's a happy medium. We've got laws.  That's the point.  You're going to pay for it if you did something wrong. Mitt Romney paid for his election. They all have a certain thing.   You know what it's the old saying. Think before you speak. Yeah. It's true. Think before you speak. Speak and do. And also and do. God, these people. I can't talk. I tell everybody what I did. No, you don't.  Then yeah, they- Why do you have to tell everybody? Why do you have to let people know what you did?   Again, I can't get through you. Well, I was telling somebody the other day, your private life should not be public knowledge.  With the social media. Yeah, that's all you knew. Yack, yack, yack, yack, yack. And I don't give in to it, do I? Yeah. No, I never talk about my private matters on social media. You didn't mind to put me on without my permission. No, I talk about, I talk about, I talk about like political issues. Yes. How many times have I gotten the owner said, don't ever do anything for anybody without the permission? You put me all over and I said, don't do that without my permission. Don't ever do that. Never. No means no. He didn't want to do it. I said no, it's okay. Yeah, for a simple comment. That's fine. Yes, I think I'm going to reach everything. Go ahead and do it. But you didn't even ask. That's my point. Are you willing to keep man god's voice? Yeah, I'll go out. Man's god's voice is hidden. Look at me. I just don't want it. What about doing voiceovers again? Pay good money? Well, if I got put that's all in. I don't want to be there on Facebook or websites doing it. I don't want to be known out that way. Right. Yes, I am. This has been a Mega Lab 21 production. It happens to be a true fact. How could ice cube trays be a seasonal item? People don't make cocktails and put ice cubes and drinks in a winter time. People don't eat ice cream in a winter time. People don't consume whole wheat waffles or any frozen dinners in a winter time. Give me a break. That's the excuse all these gives me. It's seasonal. We don't have it because it's seasonal. What? Shepherd's pie is seasonal. It has beef, potatoes, vegetables. How can that be seasonal? How could whole wheat waffles be seasonal? It's insane.  Seasonal. How ridiculous that is.  Well, maybe clams, the frozen stuff clams, maybe that could be seasonal. But not the other items. The problem is that companies across the board hire incompetent employees.  Yeah. There's an awful lot of loitering going on. I know it's with these kids. They hang out and they don't buy anything and they just like make a lot of racket. That's because there's no old fashioned discipline anymore. That's why they need to get smacked around. Oh, I could imagine. Well, you suggested I could take another half. Yeah, I need to, right? Yeah, I'm not complaining. You took a whole sort of board and all of that. Really? Oh my god. I came out and I told them, I said, come on, guys. What are you doing? Yeah. So what are you doing? I just need to. I just need to. I just need to. So who's doing? I just need to be supplied for now. I said, come on, it's incredible. All this stuff. Oh, right. Right where you have to walk in. You go ahead and screw it. Screw it. It's in the paternity, paternity of bad situation, too. Why do you have to do this? Why do you have to do this? My, uh, why? I didn't do that, Karen. I didn't want to make a mess. No, I don't know. I know. I mean, uh, I hope you didn't. I wasn't allowed to hang out. You're kidding me. Oh, you've got to go. Well, we didn't go pouring stuff over floors. No, I didn't. I didn't do, I didn't do any of that. I was, I was always very fastidious. That means clean. And meticulous. Yes. That means neat. Yes. Why do you want to make a mess? Well, I'm, I'm cool. You want to go out with me? Did they do that at home? Yeah. Oh, well, I don't know. Maybe some homes of momies and daddies let them. Well, before you got here, there were kids running around like, like, like maniacs without, and their parents did absolutely nothing. She was here. She was, I would go over nicely. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, calm down. Please. They were chasing each other, like figure eights around.  Yeah. And the mother and father's up there did absolutely. And I hope the cameras would catch it and the judge would say, you brought this on yourself. Who told you to run through the store? They did absolutely nothing about it. Absolutely nothing. Of course, younger parents, of course. It's not you. Not you.  Or why do you want to let your kid abuse other people's- It goes, Mike? Oh, you know me. It was my kid. I mean, you stop it right now. Well, it was other people's property. They're not learning to respect other people's property. Well, you just don't want the public spot like that. You don't want to do that. No, it's a liability. It's a liability issue, man.  It's like my mom's- My mom's caregiver during the day, right? She brought letters in. We have to shoot chess. It's like Cher. I can't look. I can't look. I mean, we're blonde hair. No, because you got that- You got that hippie band. Where's your girlfriend? Yeah, we haven't seen her. Oh, geez. I'm sure she looks forward to hearing that laugh. We haven't seen her at all. Too much for a week and a half. And my mom's caregiver during the week, she brought over papers for us to sign. They're going to send it to the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, that the problem is that the agencies say that the caregivers are quitting because they're not- We can't pay them much. And the agency is blaming Medicare and Medicaid, but the fact is the agency is taking the largest percentage of the money. They're billing the government and they're taking like $30 and giving the caregiver allows the $11. You're way overpaid. Oh, that? $15. Oh, that's an insult. Where are you going tonight? Friendlies? You know what? I'm having- Are you having champ clouders? Champ clouders. I'm having cod fish fillets with fried pierogies, cheese. You ever have the cheese? Wait. Mrs. T's? No, there's poppies and Mrs. T's. It's another pierogi company. Where? Sometimes they're in the frozen food section. No, we're alleys. No, it's a regular soup bottle, but I get mine at all these. Never soup bottle. No, the ones in all these are cheaper than the ones in Shopre. Are they good?  It's either potato and onion or potato and cheese. But I like them both.  Well, they both taste great. But what do they have more things to do? You have a brown- Lobster or whatever. You have a brown-and-mini skillet with butter or something? I think I'm on my own. That's the side dish. So I think they're my frozen. They're crunchy. Right off the hunt. Yeah, why did they call a side dish a side dish? Isn't the main... It's in front of me. Don't tell me it's a side dish. But isn't the main entree also on the side? No, it's a front. It's a front dish. Like if you have a ribeye steak, right, and you have pierogies on the side, isn't the ribeye steak also on the side?  It's on the... It could be on the right side or the left side? Or the front. Or the front. There you go. And where do you turn around in your seat? That is a front. Front side, front side, back side. Left side, not right side. What do you make tonight? Oh, my God, managio. As my grandmother used to say in Italian, manugio. You know, it's very hard... It's very hard for me to find a great tasting frozen pie. Very hard. No, it's not. No, it's not. Marie Calderon is great. Oh, screw Marie Calderon and her pot pies. You know what she's doing that cheek-fuck? She's giving all potatoes. No, no, it's all potato. Where's the meat? I don't see no meat in the... Maybe that, but that's... Oh, okay. Chicken pot pies, beef pot pies are good. The Aldi brand is lower with chickens. Well, then get those, but pot pies are good. When they're good, they're great. Yeah, that sounds good. Well, Marie Calderon has got cheek fillers, all potatoes. You don't think maybe you got a bad one? No, because I tried it several times, and she's putting in... If she really exists, Marie Calderon. Like they say Mama Celestes. I hear they have excellent restaurants. Oh, maybe it's a regional restaurant. Yeah, Marie Calderon is an excellent restaurant. Oh, wouldn't that be a goldmine if Golden Corral really did open up over here? They told me it's coming. That would be an absolute gold... I told you that, right? Yeah, that would be a goldmine, man. What? We're a pathologist. He's going in there, but they sold the sign in there for lease. I don't understand it. I have to ask the girls if they heard me. Well, the business owners that have stores in Bergen County said that their leasing is astronomically high. Their rents are really, really high. Even for a mom-and-pop store, like a gift shop or something? They got it. I mean, you need a lot of customers just to make your overhead. And your partnership with the landlords. These landlords will not bend with you. There's comebacks. There's landlords. You know how long it took the one, the Luridag strip mall, to get the lights, the halogen lights for a nighttime replace? All you do is own a store. You think your hotshot would be the partner in the business of I own some land? They state the Chinese takeout in Luridag by the Dollar Tree said it's not a landlord that owns this. It's a bank or real estate. No, not a bank. I'm sorry, real estate. A real estate company. And they don't care. And they don't care. And they don't care. That's why I get my Chinese. Where? China Town Hall Bank. That's where I go. The one by Bergen King. That's where I don't live. By the Dollar Tree up there? I don't live far from there. What I do is, why? I park and they opened up an Indian store by Sorrento's. You know Sorrento's Bakery in Luridag? That's gone down there for years. Oh, yeah, they left. That's true. My doctor is upstairs from Bank of America, right on Hunter Street. Why was I? Dr. Rigolosa? Oh, they've been here forever. They're gone. Well, family owned bakery there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the other place is family owned. I think it's Garfield. They're an Italian place for homemade pasta and sauces. That beat of meat. Feed of meat is still going strong. No, they're on Harrison Avenue. So they are. Oh, deep. Is that low down there or Garfield? Orlando's Bakery. That's Low Dye, actually. No, no. It's like right on the church is up Franklin Street. That's still a high school field. No, I'm going to get up to that. That's Low Dye. I have to order something. Harrison, the borderline between, okay. Karen, have a good life. The borderline between Garfield and Lower Dye goes right down the center of Harrison Avenue. Yeah. One side is Low Dye. The left side is Low Dye. The right side is Garfield.  Yeah. There's a hill. It looks like a bend. There's like a bend. There's a cool bridge there. You go up that hill. There's an Orlando's Bakery. It's very highly rated. Better than Deanne as I hear. Deanne is on the safe street. Right. By going towards the Walmart.  No, they're doing great, man. They don't deliver. That's the only thing. You know who got real stingy? Napoli's Pizza. They got really, I used to get big calzones. I used to get big, big, big, big calzones. And guess what? Now, for the same price, the calzone is like tiny, like a little strong or strong bullies. No, I stop. I look, you never, you never cut corners. If you've got a good business and you have a lot of customers, you don't screw your customers. You don't try to cut corners. You don't, you don't do that. You just continue the quality of everything. Don't get greedy, right? Right.


Hello, and thank you for attending our first ever open house for EMEA and APAC. Welcome, my name is Maria, I'm based out of London. Any other Londoners feel free to put a plus one in the chat. I'm a senior recruiter for GNA, which includes accounting, finance, legal, HR and business technology. So basically everything but sales, marketing and engineering. And I'm nearing my one year anniversary working at GitLab. Before I get started, I'll pass you over to my colleague Debbie to say a quick hello. Yeah, hi there. I'm Debbie Harris. I'm based in West Cork in Ireland. And I am a senior recruiter working on mostly sales, channel and customer success roles. We are both here today to share some tips and tricks on how to interview in a remote setting. And of course, there will be time set aside Q&A at the end. So please do add any questions to the Google Doc and we'll cover these. And if we run out of time, we will respond asynchronously after the session. Thank you. Thanks Debbie. So a brief introduction. We are GitLab and we are all remote as you all know. That means no commute and the added benefit of time we directed to home health family and our community. I know in these strange times the majority of us are all getting a taste of the 100% remote work lifestyle. But GitLab has done it from day one and therefore the company has had a lot of practice within the realms of remote interviewing. We are made up of more than 1300 GitLabers in more than 65 countries to date. We are therefore made up of a really diverse team across the world and most of us have still never met in person. Amazingly, we have built great relationship virtually through the wonders of technology within our teams and across GitLab as a community. We have over 100,000 organisations that co-create with us and we have more than 3000 code contributors to GitLab software. So what are we going to cover today? Firstly, before the remote interview, how to prepare things you need to consider, what to research equipment and how to get ready. Then during the remote interview, how to conduct yourself during the interview and what to think about. Lastly, how to assess a remote company and how to understand if it's the right fit for you and what you're looking for in an organisation. So let's get started. What do we need to start considering before the remote interview? Firstly, you have to prepare. Get to know the company that you're interviewing for. There are over 7000 pages in our handbook covering topics like our values, culture, team pages and other documentation for you to really set the scene for the company and the role. Take your time and do your research to really understand the company that you'll be interviewing with. One of the first questions you're asked to interview could be, so what do you know about said company? So it's great to have this knowledge to hand to show the interviewer you are serious about your application. To GitLab, the values are a massive part of the company, so it is extremely important that a candidate knows and relates with them. Secondly, prepare your questions for the interviewers. It can be about the company, about the team you're interviewing for, processes, their experience working at the company. Again, this will really show that you have a genuine interest to join the company. Your time to really prepare for the interview. Another key aspect to take into consideration is making sure you have to familiarise yourself with the platforms the company is using in the interview process. So check your technology. Make sure you install and get comfortable using the platform. And if you're facing any technical challenges, try to report them before the time of your interview. You should also set up the best possible circumstances for the technology to work. For example, asking others in your household not to stream TV while you're doing the interview. Hold a practice interview with a friend or a family member to make sure that you are comfortable using the software and they can clearly hear and see you. Here at GitLab we use Zoom, but other companies use other software for videos. So ensure you leave time to prepare and download the app so that you have the best possible chance of it working smoothly when the time comes. In addition to software, check your hardware. Use headphones with a microphone ideally. Test your microphone and your camera beforehand. Some people use their phone for video interviews. I've had all their laptops. Just make sure you feel comfortable with whatever you are using and optimise your environment. Try to figure out where you are. At the moment, we're all at home. So optimise your lighting, see the examples in the slides. You need lighting in the front and not behind you. Ensure the angle is straight on so you're not looking up or down at the screen. This may mean elevating the laptop or the camera itself. It's also important to choose a comfortable and quiet place to take the interview with no noise or distractions. This is sometimes challenging in a home environment. I know it can be a strange concept, particularly the first time you do it. I feel like a face-to-face in-person interview just through the screen instead. And make sure you're sitting or standing comfortably.  So take your time to read and really familiarise yourself with your own CV. Obviously, you know better than anyone your experience, but it's always good to do a recap and really familiarise yourself with your past experience, projects you've been involved in and your career highlights. Be prepared so you can highlight these key things to show that you offer a future employer, show what you can offer a future employer during the interview. And lastly, make a plan and pace yourself. Be aware of the time that's allotted for the interview. It may be 30, 45 minutes, which is typical time blocks at GitLab. Therefore, there can be a lot to cram into that time. Try and be concise and ensure you keep to relevant topics. Prioritise what you want to highlight during the time in the interview to ensure your key transferable skills and experiences covered. Blocks in time before and after the interview to ensure you aren't rushing for the call, but also able to relax during the call knowing you have some time afterwards to reset after the interview. Next, Debbie will continue with a presentation on tips during the remote interview. Thanks, Maria. So Maria touched on how to prepare before a remote interview. So I'll share some things to bear in mind during a remote interview. And some of these will sound obvious, but you would be surprised how often things can be overlooked. So much of the advice we will give can easily apply to a traditional face-to-face interview and so things will sound quite familiar. So some of the key tips, in our opinion, are maintaining eye contact with the interviewer and not forgetting to look into the camera. If you're using several screens in your home office set up, be aware of exactly where your camera is located. Keep your intonation and body language positive and engaging if you were in the interview room physically. Keep calm if things go wrong. Sometimes technology is not on our side and you can encounter problems in a remote interview. This will demonstrate that you know how to deal with challenging situations and are adaptable. Be on time, that might sound obvious, but even though you're remote it's just as unprofessional to keep your interviewer waiting. So put a plus one on the chat if you're like me and have a thousand tabs on your laptop open sometimes. So when on a remote interview, just have your notes and don't browse the internet for answers. The interviewer will notice that you are a bit distracted. Another important aspect is having talking points prepared for your interview because it will show that you are prepared for the interview, demonstrate your understanding of the organisation, relate your experience and knowledge to the job description and the team you're aiming to join. And if you are nervous it can be easy to talk over the interviewer although it helps if you slow down to have things prepared. Keep an eye on the time, make sure you're not going off on a tangent and are answering the question being asked and be succinct, but also mindful to relate your answers to the requirements of the role. Although for GitLab all remote working has always been part of our culture, we are well aware that this setup is new for many people and for many organisations. It was forced by the pandemic but companies and people now more than ever have to adapt to remote. For that reason it is important for you as a candidate to know how to assess a remote company. So one of the first questions you can ask is about onboarding as it is a crucial part of joining a new organisation. How is the onboarding process, the timeline, will it have someone to help me throughout the process like a buddy? Will I have access to all training needed? So for example at GitLab the onboarding is very complete. It includes tasks for managers, IT operations, onboarding buddy and people operations before the first day to ensure the new hire has all the tools, systems and information needed to get started. Then it's divided throughout the week by each task you have to complete. After that you also have a specific onboarding for the team you're actually joining. So the all onboarding process should take at least three to four weeks and we encourage people to take their time with it. This can be very different from company to company so make sure you ask how they handle it. The second question you should ask is how will I communicate since I'm fully remote. This is a question I get quite a lot from candidates. So be sure to ask what tools will be provided. So at GitLab for instance we heavily rely on async versus sync communications. So we use tools like Google Docs to type what is discussed in every meeting. We use Slack for major announcements and sharing. And we use our own platform GitLab.com all the time for sharing projects, pieces of work, discussion areas, et cetera. And of course we rely heavily on our handbook for any updates in our processes and procedures. You may have seen our handbook. I think we've made mention of it a few times. It's an open source document shared with the world about 70,000 pages along and gives you open access to all our processes, procedures, philosophies, thought processes around how we approach work. So we believe in full transparency and it allows candidates and existing team members alike to really get into the detail on what it's like to work for us and answers a lot of questions on how we do things. So the third question for a potential employer could be around the benefits provided. So things like, will I be able to expensify my home office equipment? How does it work, the time off in my country? What are the annual leave allowances? What about salary? Will I be paid accordingly with the country I'm based in? Other benefits like stock options, how does that work? What about working hours? I will have team members in different time zones. So will I need to work these times? Since I'm remote, can I work from wherever I want? If I want to move or relocate, can I move freely? That's just a few things we thought about. Finally, it's also key to ask about your employment type. Am I going to be a full-time employee or have a contract agreement? Since remote companies hire people all over the world, maybe they need to have a few different setups to hire them. We certainly do it GitLab. So it's important to understand the specifics of being full-time or being a contractor, for example. Does my location impact my employment type? Will you be a full-time employee or a contractor and why is this? Having an entity is a viable way of hiring, but having one in each country requires a big investment from the company. So sometimes hiring through a third party or as an independent contractor are other ways of hiring in a location where the company has no entity. So then you would need to consider what the benefits are. Benefits change accordingly with the type of contract. Even where countries may already have specific benefits that are mandatory by law, these can be impacted depending on your work status, and you may find that you need to organise your own pension or your healthcare, for instance. So it is important to understand this ahead of time. GitLab has a page on our handbook, again, open for anyone to read, that outlines exactly the different types, different team member types, and also the countries where we have an entity, the countries where we employ through a PEO company, and also those where, right now, we hire people as contractors. This would help give you an idea of the range of options and possibilities when speaking with a prospective employer. So if you Google GitLab contracts, it will come up first with our page, Contracts and International Expansion. So after all this rambling from us, we wanted to highlight these four words when interviewing remotely. Communication is key during all parts of the interviewing process. It's always important and equally so in a fully remote process. Maintain eye contact, make sure your equipment is working and beyond time. Adaptation is vital as many of you may not have interviewed remotely so much before. Remember, it's just a conversation and we're all human, we just want to get to know you. It's important to show engagement, preparation will help you be confident, show enthusiasm, know about the company and relate your skills to the role. It's just a change of mindset. It will seem awkward to start with, but now everyone is in the same boat, working so much more on Zoom and similar tools. Interviews can be stressful in any situation, but the more preparation you do ahead of time, the more at ease you will be. So that's it. I hope you have all enjoyed taking some positives out of this presentation. I'm now open for Q&A. Please add these to the doc. Also, if you feel more comfortable, you can always send us an email and we will do our best to answer as soon as possible. Thank you. So I'm just looking at the doc. I can't see any then, Maria, can you? As yet. Okay, so we'll just give a few minutes if anyone wants to add any. But for me, I was going to say to you, Maria, the main difference coming to work as a remote company was the flexibility it gave me. And I couldn't get my head around that to start with, but really being able to work from wherever and whenever you want and setting your own daily practices and giving yourself a bit of time during the day to do other things is really valuable. It's made a huge difference to family life, work-life balance, but also means you can really manage your workload effectively. What do you think? Same for you? Yeah, definitely. And I think just, I think with GitLab, as long as you've got it in your diary and people know when they can reach you, then it's okay to nip out a few to walk the dog because it's good to be mindful of this as well. So for me, that flexibility, especially having children, is great to know that I can nip to the school if I needed to and I am just around the corner. So definitely appeal and being manager of one as well.  Yeah, because it is all about the new results, right, efficiencies, and that's what we're told and that certainly is how it works in practice. And I think the asynchronous work style is fantastic too. So being able to attend all the meetings or review them later on YouTube and look at the documents as well is really a core aspect of that. Yeah, a huge amount of communication which helps in your everyday, definitely. Or you don't never feel like you're missing out on anything, no matter what time zone you're in. No, and it's good, isn't it? If you have an interest in other areas, so if you're really interested in, say, for example, what marketing are doing or what's happening in sales or anywhere really, you know, you could always view those notes to look at what's going on in the gitlab.com platform and also look at the meetings or be on the meetings, which is a goal too. Yeah, it's very transparent. Yeah, and I mean, the remote interviewing aspect, you know, working now as you can, hopefully then you can accommodate the different time zones that candidates are in as well. So you work your diary around that as much as you can. Great. Exactly. Any other questions? No, we obviously answered them all. We've been very efficient. I doubt it, but anyway. I know there's one coming. We've got two questions now. Shall I verbalise? Yeah, two. So we have one question. Do you check reading skills up front? Because some people have a hard time reading a lot of docs. That's a good question. Yeah, that's a good question. I would say we probably don't check reading skills up front. For some roles, for some positions, there are kind of assessment tests and things pertaining to the role, though. So for example, for a technical account manager, we might send them a brief to present on a demo call, things like that. Or for some roles, we ask for a piece of writing to be done. But not specifically reading. That's an interesting one. We'll have to talk to the people group about that and see whether there's something we should think about. Yeah. And Elkhana is saying, what practices did you incorporate in your daily work prior to the interview at GitLab that enabled you to adapt faster to remote in the way that GitLab preferred? That's another good question. That's a really good question. I've worked in the tech industry before, so I'm used to that fast-paced element of life. I was lucky I worked from home a lot and worked in the office, so I had that dual kind of split in my role. I guess practices to incorporate in my daily work. That's a really good question. I don't know, Debbie. I was working in an office for nine years, so I used to have a two-hour commute there and back to get to work for about nine years. And then, of course, suddenly being at home all day with GitLab was very interesting. And I found myself adapting in certain ways in making sure there was a structured time for going for a walk first thing in the morning, making sure there was time to review my emails and all my Slack chats first thing in the morning and prepare for interviews and all of that. So it was probably very similar to how you would, in the office, what you do, but you just learn to adapt to the time and the extra time, actually. I had to be very determined to make sure that the extra time that I got from not commuting that I really made sure I did something really valuable to me with that time rather than simply working harder and for longer. So, yeah, things like getting outside, taking time for the things I enjoy. Yeah, I guess my mornings are just more relaxed now. I don't have to worry about getting the children somewhere before I have to get the train anywhere. But now I get to take the kids to school each morning and I get to walk the dog during the day if I don't do it before work. So it is a lot more relaxed. And I think that actually prepares and sets me up for the day because I can incorporate that exercise into my day each time. And I think we've had to get used to the whole documentation thing as well, which is so valuable. And so it's part of our DNA really now, right? So we just meant everything, including, you know, on all meetings, as we've already said, and communications within group chat, things like that, you know, which helps. I think it just means people can work and find out the answers to questions at any time wherever they are. Yeah, and I think that's probably one of the biggest changes and challenges is keeping up to speed with everything. And using that, you know, as part of your routine, is remembering to look at the Slack channels that you need to be looking at, like updates from GitLab and in general, company FYI and things like that, just to keep up to speed with everything because there's a lot coming through in the night, especially when the US are on, to keep in mind and catch up on in the morning. Yeah, exactly, yeah.


from the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's the Cube, covering the MIT Chief Data Officer and the Information Quality Symposium. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Paul Gillan. We are back at the Cube live from the MIT CDO IQ Symposium in Cambridge, Mass. Paul Gillan with my colleague Stu Miniman, and we're now joined by Paul Barth, our guest is the CEO of Podium Data, a company that you may not have heard of, but it's a company that's trying to solve a problem that you've heard a lot about, which is Hadoop complexity and making Hadoop useful to the enterprise, really as a coordinate management platform, not just as a playground. Paul, talk a bit about the problem that you're trying to solve. Why did you come up with the idea for Podium in the first place? Thanks, Paul. One of the things that the benefits of experience has is that you've seen the same problems over and over, and in fact, I've been at this conference for many years since its founding, talking about what it takes to implement governance. And one of the problems that I found as consistent was that the complexity of the systems in an enterprise, the morass of data sets and sources spread all over the place that are constantly in motion, make it very difficult to implement governance. You may come up with great policies. You may have good processes and roles and stewards, but if you don't have an asset to govern, you really will have trouble or never be able to catch up and maintain the governance policies you're trying to put in place. So four years ago, I gave a presentation here about next generation data governance and how I feel that Hadoop is not a threatening platform for data governance, but it actually is ideally suited for governing your data. And the reason it's ideally suited is the cost point, the low cost point in the barrier, it removes barriers to entry, it removes a lot of optimization and design and technical engineering to make an efficient solution. You can dump all your data in one place. You're still left with these issues around organizing the data, ensuring quality. There's still a lot of data management work to do, but a lot of the barriers to getting started and to moving quickly are eliminated. And I knew this because we built some of these, but what I found was the Hadoop stack alone was really not a turnkey data lake and that many enterprises didn't have the Hadoop skills or the integration capabilities to pull together all of this technology with new languages and new protocols and new databases. So what I decided was that there was room for a product in here. And this product would allow us to turn data management principles on its head. And that is to really allow agile data management that it and do away with some maxims that we've done that we've held for a lot of years, which is get good requirements on the data you need. With a data lake, the concept is no, bring in all the data you can and use the power of Hadoop and the data lake to improve the data and figure out whether it's useful. The problem with, if you're, the reason that podium is designed the way it is or the problem that we focused on solving with our solution was that it needs, this environment has a lot of data, it has sensitive data, it has a lot of different users, it has stakeholders in the business, stakeholders in technology. And you need an enterprise class platform that manages all of that consistently end to end. And so we built a metadata driven platform that installs either in the cloud or on premises and talks to any Hadoop distribution. And uses the power of Hadoop to give you that cost performance, the flexibility, the responsiveness, but it gives you the management controls that you expect in a robust, mature enterprise platform. How is your approach to solving this complexity problem different from everybody else? I mean, there's a lot of other companies, a lot of companies trying to make Hadoop more, you know, friendlier. Friendlier and useful. And there are certain pockets of capabilities. So data wrangling is a very popular topic. Data profiling is interesting. Of course, analytics. The first thing I'll say is that we are a data management platform. We don't do any BI, so we partner with all the major BI firms and the data we prepare is immediately accessible from the likes of Tableau and Click and others. The other piece of it though is if you look at the life cycle, and data professionals know that the real life cycle of data management starts with raw data and it starts with data. You don't know the quality of the provenance. You don't know whether it's going to be useful. And you need to manage this process of raw to ready, which we used to do with ETL tools like talent and ab initio and informatica. But that was purely a programmer's domain. And now what's happening is that by using metadata and a business friendly interface, we're bringing business analysts and data analysts into that process of understanding the raw data for helping with the preparation and validation of it. And then using a lot of automation during our ingestion to bring in things like legacy mainframe data sources and convert them into Hadoop ready formats to automatically profile every field of every dataset in advance because we have this powerful platform to do it, even if we don't know whether we need to profile the data. So by pre-processing and automating, we're going to be, we have a ready to go environment that's much, much faster. Our customers are up and in production in 30, 60, 90 days as opposed to a year of custom building. So Paul, can you help us connect to what you're working on to kind of the mandates we hear from Chief Data Officer? Sure. Often we hear the Chief Data Officer isn't necessarily involved in a lot of the technology discussions, I hear things like Hadoop and all these real-time things, it's going to be a different piece there. So how do those go together? I think it's a really important question. And I do think that what we do, what we often see is that our platform brings is a kind of common table. We bring everybody to the table from IT, the business and the analytic community and risk. And the reason is data is such an important and sensitive asset, all of those stakeholders need a hand in it. But the implementation of policies, the implementation and monitoring of your guidelines that you're setting up as a CDO can't be buried in a set of code. It needs to be exposed and visible and that's why metadata is so critical. Every asset, every user, every process in the data lake's podium manages is recorded and tracked through metadata. So you have rich reporting on who's using what, who has access to what, what is the hot area of data, what data should we clean up because we're seeing some sprawl. That manageability is now finally able to be done because we have the data in one place, a consolidated platform and we have a management layer that's keeping it organized and consumable and manageable by business users in various functions. Do you see looking out in the longer term, right now, the data lake is typically used as a staging area to the data warehouse, which is an expensive platform. Over time, do you see perhaps the data lake becoming the data warehouse? Will we not need data warehouses as we now think of them? Well, we are seeing that in some of our early customers like the Stellis Pharmaceuticals actually replaced their Netiza database that they were using for analytics with Hadoop managed by Podium. And they did that because it would took them much longer and was much more expensive to deliver on those warehouse appliances from the major vendors. And so there are pockets where people are doing that. However, we are a product built for large enterprises and many large enterprises have a very significant investment in an infrastructure, security infrastructure, usage, data models, that you won't unplug overnight and you don't want to come in and say the value proposition is displacing it. What we're displacing is the morass of data extract, transformation, staging, technology that feeds those. And there are many companies right now taking workload off the warehouse, putting it onto Hadoop managed by Podium. We are seeing a big interest right now shift to streaming and to near real-time analytics led by Apache Spark. And George Gilbert of Wikibon has predicted that Spark will drive about two thirds of the growth in the big data market over the next five years. Does that affect what you do, the data lake concept? Will data lakes adapt well to stream processing? Well we've designed ours to. And what I can say is that there's a concept of a Lambda architecture which includes both streaming and real-time as well as batch-oriented history. And every business and every analyst knows you need both. You need to have rich, complete histories of your information, of your business activities and outside data to make sense of what rules you want to fire in real-time. The problem in the past is that it's been very disjoint. In our solution, they become pulled together. And today we run on Spark and we'll have streaming in the near future. Well, one thing about your market, you can say is never boring. Paul Barton. That's right. Thank you for joining us today. We will be right back. We have another guest before we wrap up the day. This is Paul Gillan with the CUBE MIT CDO IQ Symposium. Hi, this is Christa Vanny from.


You're going to build the ultimate roller coaster, okay, you're not actually going to build a life-size roller coaster that you can ride Apparently, there's this thing called safety that schools have to follow bummer, but you are going to design and build a model roller coaster It needs to be the kind of roller coaster someone would actually enjoy Think about this ultimate roller coaster Consider your ideal audience. Will it be a gentler ride for younger kids or will it be a terrifying ride for adventure seekers? How do you want people to feel? Do you want them to be scared? nervous Excited calm maybe a mix of all of those emotions What kind of theme will it have? See every roller coaster has a theme It might be a mountain theme or a space theme or a pop culture theme. So create a theme for your roller coaster Decide on the features of your ride. Will it have a huge drop a loop? corkscrew turn Think of the physics and mechanics of your ride How will you keep your coaster going from start to finish without stopping? Your items will include duct tape paper cardboard a marble plastic straws and popsicle sticks Don't forget to experiment and make tons of glorious mistakes Ultimately your design is going to be awesome Because it's yours, and it's coming from your creative mind If you enjoyed this video go ahead and like it and leave a comment in the comment section below And if you haven't already I encourage you to subscribe Thanks a lot


growth partner management is actually very new and also very sexy and mysterious and very few people actually know what does a growth partner manager do in fact it's a very fun data driven role and lots of people transition into partner management by becoming a growth partner manager and lots of traditional pm transition into growth pm as well in this video i'm going to share with you what does a growth partner manager do with the live examples into day to day life with the roles responsibilities and how are they different from the traditional partner management and who is suitable for partner manager career and make sure stay until this end video where i'm going to share with you the salary information of growth product manager hey guys this is dr. Nancy Lee a director product featured in Forbes i've helped 100 people lend their dream pm job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader in this channel we cover product management and tech trends like and subscribe channel for more free training i was a director product specialized in growth when i worked for copper america and we also helped several student lend the job at the growth partner manager now let me share with you top five roles responsibilities of growth partner manager and what actually do they do number one a growth partner manager is the one who identifies the company growth opportunities and the directs teams effort to drive them the growth plan works on improving a specific business matrix to grow revenue and profit in the long term so in a very simple terms growth partner manager focus on growing users growing revenue and growing profit they mainly are doing the five different things on a day to day basis first of all they're managing the product and business needs end to end from acquiring customers all the way to the user customers and all the way to they generating revenue of the customers and second growth partner manager spend lots of time doing experiment for example they specialize in growth hacking and ab testing driving data to understand how can you optimize the conversion of customers to achieve the business metrics number three they spend lots of time making data driven decision by looking at the end to end customer funnel i'm gonna give you an example of end to end customer funnel as they exercise in a few seconds number four they create product features by leading an engineering team number five they create growth strategy for the entire company now let's use a real life example of growth partner manager of amazon as an example so let's take a look on the amazon.com website if you are a growth partner manager first of all you need to list out the funnel customer funnel of customers on amazon.com this website and for b2b customers and b2c customers there's slightly different type of funnel for example for b2b customers your funnel could be the following creating contact and qualifying leads creating business needs evaluating needs and start the negotiation process and close the deals and renew your contract for b2c customers the steps might be slightly different by following very similar three funnel process to simplify we call the top funnel middle funnel and bottom funnel so for amazon.com website the top funnel is how can they create new users to drive them to amazon.com and how can they have more existing users go into amazon.com whenever they search any new items so that's how the growth partner manager working with the marketing team for example to create ad campaign on google and they can also create influencer outreach marketing campaign to bring more influencers talking about how they buy product on amazon and give some referral links for them to send traffic to amazon these are the examples of the top of the funnel once they go to the amazon.com website growth partner manager need to wear the hat of growth hacking which means they need to work with data science team uiux design team marketing team and create the strategy to run a b testing to understand how can they design the interface to use amazon to purchase more product from the top funnel and make them start to browse the product for example i'm on amazon.com right now once any customers visit the website of amazon.com there's a first impression that showing different examples of things they can purchase different kind of recommended items and books or customization for you at the growth partner manager and this person need to think about how can you run a b testing to optimize the website views and traffic to make sure that they're going to click into individual items and start to make them have a stronger call to action and to start the next step of purchasing behavior for example the growth pn may be thinking about what the color of the call to action item is a yellow maybe pink they might run a b testing to see what's the best color and where do they put this call to action and what is the top three of four banners they need to display to different type of users so that they're able to create the best conversion rate hit the business metrics and for example they also put in different kind of discount they were thinking about what percentage of the discount for our first time users or return users is going to drive the best return during this process growth partner manager need to define the business metrics for example it could be the click-through rate of people going to amazon.com for each top rated items could also be the click-through rate of the conversion rate of their marketing campaign and could also be the conversion rate of customers that went to the payment funnel and all of this are considered as different kind of business metrics throughout the entire funnel that growth partner manager need to measure i have specific videos right here i talk in depth regarding different kind of management metrics the partner managers need to measure you can watch more right here once customers start to generate any kind of interest of any product they move to the middle funnel and then growth partner manager need to understand how are they able to increase the conversion rate if any customers start to pay in certain kind of product and in this process that might introduce different kind of product features for example i click some banners regarding fashionable shoes by amazon and started exploring different kind of shoes fancy shoes and out there and then amazon and growth partner manager need to decide are they going to show more examples to drive me continuing to purchase in certain type of shoes or are they going to prioritize the review of the shoes so that they're able to give me more options um to quickly uh purchase this product for example this one that clearly made me say there's no customer reviews clearly i'm not going to purchase this right away as someone who just started to engage this website and clearly i'm going to click around other type of shoes and start digging around in this process the growth partner manager need to optimize the customer journey map the end to an experience a user experience so that they're able to hit the high conversion rate customers start to purchase things from amazon.com then we move to the bottom of the funnel the bottom funnel is very smart which means they start to purchase any kind of product such as the payment process could also be after the finish paying the product how they can they have reoccurring customers for example growth partner manager may have a strategy of understanding how are they able to give different kind of promotion different kind of discount different notifications and let me give you a specific very smart feature one of the grocery stores introduced at the bottom of the funnel for example in this screenshot of the grocery store which is v i just purchased chinese grocery and after place the order i asked me to share all my orders with my friends and family on social media and any person could purchase through my link i'm going to get up to 75 dollars referral fees from this website so this is clearly a growth partner manager features they decide how would you make the existing customers to bring more friends refer more people to the platform and also continuously purchase for themselves at the bottom of the funnel if you like the example of the process what i told you you might be good fit for growth partner manager now let me also do a quick comparison between growth partner manager and the traditional partner management there are three key differences number one growth partner management are way more data driven compared with traditional partner management i'm not saying that traditional pm are not data driven growth partner manager live in data day in day out that look at converging every single day and running a b testing to drive the convergence in each steps of customer journey map number two is the definition of customers we always say all the partner manager and you have a customer empathy now growth partner manager their customers is actually the business the business revenue number of users the business profit is not individual users like us as a customer anymore so which means that their own customers are more the business needs how can they optimize the needs of the business to optimize their profit and revenue and so therefore if you're more interested in numbers and making money growth pm may be good fit but if you're more interested in individual customers have customer empathy solving their pain point you might be good fit for traditional partner management number three is a team structure a growth partner manager still worked with designers developer team and data scientists team but the biggest difference between growth partner manager and also traditional partner management is that growth partner manager actually is working cross-functionally with all the partner managers in the company because each traditional partner manager let's call them core partner managers are creating individual features to solve the customer needs customer pain point and now the growth partner manager need to leverage the existing feature from core partner manager to figure out what's a customer journey map so that they can extract even more revenue outside of each individual users so therefore it is even more cross-functional role compared with traditional partner managers and of course growth partner manager work with data scientists day and day out around ab testing floating love with numbers i love numbers numbers love me if i found out what i shared with you super valuable please make sure like this video put your questions down below now let's think about who is suitable for partner management if you transition into p.m. number one people with data background such as data scientists and i really think you're very good fit for a growth p.m because you live in data every single day you're doing experiments if you are a phd like me you might be even better at doing growth hacking growth p.m because you're running experimentation every single day to figure out how to drive the best user outcome and another profession very obvious profession become a growth partner manager is somebody who has a marketing background or someone who is very business driven or customer facing roles and those people are frequently someone who is very sensitive regarding what's the best way to generate revenue for the company and so it's a natural transition for you to directly move into growth partner management this is how we design all the study paths for our students who came from business background never worked with engineers and we teach them how to work with engineers but they are very intuitive in terms of how to become a growth partner manager to generate users and revenue for our customers now let's talk about the most asked question how much growth partner managers getting paid growth partner manager right now if you are just a growth p.m in the field on average you're getting paid $150,000 per year if you are senior growth partner manager you're getting paid at least $200,000 per year and this is just a national average if you actually work in San Francisco because in general the location is very expensive you're getting paid about 10 to 30 percent higher than what I just mentioned earlier on top of that if you work for one of those fan companies or a unicorn startup in city and valley you're clearly getting paid at least $300,000 per year now does growth partner manager get paid higher than traditional p.m the answer is yes it might be about 10 percent higher than traditional p.m because growth partner managers are closely related to the revenue of the company and they will have higher compensation if you do a job very well so if you like making lots of money you might be considering transitioning into growth partner management by now you'll be asking hey Nancy growth partner management sounds really cool I want to become a growth partner manager what should I do the number one thing you need to do is trying to figure out how can you cracks the product execution part of metrics interview at the growth partner manager because they're very big on metrics how you run ab testing and how would you pick the right metrics and I have free training goals in depth talking about my computer science phd framework where I teach you how you're able to easily extract 10 to 20 different kind of product metrics for next round of product metrics interview I'm going to link it right here this next video you must watch right away and if you like any free content we provide today make sure to like comment and subscribe and share this video with 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We're so far away. I think there's one person, I've done this for many, many years, and one person I definitely don't have to introduce to, right? Shakira, the greatest entertainer living, and also does so much work for public good and advocacy, and God bless you for doing that. Thank you, God bless you. I was just thinking, reading about you, you won so many awards, you've performed in front of hundreds, tens of thousands of people, 12 Grammys, it's no joke, and now the Crystal Award. Was that special to that, for our awards now, part of your life? This is special. No, of course, it's a very prestigious award. But I think that it's mostly a reflection. I hope that it's a reflection on the global understanding of the importance of investing in early childhood development. I hope that it means that the issues be coming top of mind for everyone. Right.  You don't just sing, you write your songs, you don't just dance, you get into choreography, presentation, production, editing.  That's what you said, actually. And now with child... Not the most relaxed mom ever, I can say that. And now in child development, are you as hands-on? And are there lessons from your early years which you learned and you're implementing now? You mean in what we do on the field? Yes, education. Education, yeah, I'm definitely on top of every detail on how the schools work, the progress that we're making in our schools. I decided to create my own foundation when I was only 18. And since then, we've been working on education, trying to provide high-quality education. So it is a challenge. And it comes with many obstacles that we had to overcome. And we have to still overcome on a daily basis. We work in areas where very remote areas where literally there's nothing. Sometimes we encounter a tremendous lack of infrastructure, no portable water. In many cases, no electricity, no paved roads. So it definitely means that we have to work twice as hard in order to offer a quality education. But not only that, also the kids that we attend to, most of them belong to families that have been directly affected by violence, that have lost even family members. So you can imagine the challenges that we encounter when we try to provide that education. So I have to be constantly understanding, learning about their needs. I dedicate a huge portion of my time to advocating for education for all, but also to improving what we offer in our schools in Colombia and other places in the world. I've noticed also that you don't just provide education again, typical Shakira-style, high-quality education, even if it's for the poorest person, right? Yes, exactly. You focus on that. Yeah, from the beginning, I didn't just want to build schools. I wanted to build state-of-the-art schools. But what does that mean? It means that they had to be comprehensive, integral. They had to encompass not only for walls and learning materials. They had to encompass programs to engage the entire community, to maintain the schools. School-feeding program is the cornerstone upon our programs in our schools are built, upon which I'm sorry, my English. I don't know. Upon which our programs are built. I did not even pronounce. It's definitely the center and the core of our work. Offering food in our schools is such a key, vital element in order to keep the kids in school. So little by little, we were introducing other elements that were improving what we were offering, the kind of education that we were offering, involving the parents, trained teachers, and also even making available sports facilities to the rest of the community. And on this, Barca Foundation has been very, very instrumental. We have built football fields, football pitch. I would have thought that's the first thing you built. Not exactly the first, but little by little, we've been doing more and more improvements. But I'm telling you, it's so worth it. Every penny that we've invested in schools and in education have been so, so worth our while. I don't feel that I have wasted any money or effort or energy when it comes to investing in education, especially on ECD. ECD strategies have early childhood development strategies have really demonstrated that are so vital when it comes to keeping kids in school as well and making sure that they succeed not only in school, but later in life.  Shakira only takes things which have got hurdles. And then you smash each one of them. I remember as a kid, your music teacher said, you, singer, forget it. Can you imagine a music teacher? I didn't like my voice. Never let me enter the school choir. Yeah, that was a big frustration for me. Luckily, my dad was as stubborn as me, and he always encouraged me and said, no, no, no, your voice is amazing. Someday they will know because I had a very powerful vibrato, which I still keep. It's a very, I think, a very signature thing of mine.  So many of my classmates used to say, Shakira, you seem like a goat. I kind of do have a little goatee thing going on. That's what the teacher said. Well, yeah. And but my parents were always there insisting on the fact that I had to believe in me and in my dreams. So I really owe them my career, really. More than that, jeans. Every morning you should thank them for your jeans. Yeah, the jeans are not that important. I mean, like Professor Heckman says, some jeans can be actually activated, can be triggered by the environment. Yeah, absolutely. Environment is crucial. But I also remember when you switched to English, you're already a big star in Latin, most of Latin American countries. But then you switched to English and Rolling Stone said, Shakira, what are you up to? Crazy. You didn't remember that? And you proved them wrong. What did they say? Rolling Stone magazine. Yeah, remind me. I have a bad memory now. They said, you shouldn't sing in English. That's crazy. And you proved them wrong. I mean, you've had just so many huge hits. Well, I don't recall that. I only remember the good stuff.  Well, of course I had people who believed in me at the beginning and people who didn't. But, yeah, I guess I've been more than talented. I think I've been very persistent and disciplined as well. As being modest, would anybody here agree with that? No, it's more than it's talent plus. And I think the work that you're leveraging, your popularity to reach out to a wider audience and people can learn from what you're doing is just wonderful. Hundreds of schools you started. How about a round of applause for just doing it? I see. God bless you, really. Well, you know what, I've had a great team of people. I would have not been able to achieve many of the things that I achieved in life, both professionally and philanthropically if I didn't have a great team of committed human beings who want to see changes the same way I do. I've read about your dad.  Of course, dad power. Somebody said, root for dad power, right? And I do remember him. Your name means grateful or gratitude. And he did something for you at a tough time so you understood the meaning of gratefulness. He took you to a playground.  And he hasn't been quite the best business person. So at some point in our lives, actually, when I was seven years old, we lost pretty much everything we had. He was doing quite well with his jewelry business. But then he made a couple of bad decisions and voila. Yeah, we had a financial crisis in our family. And my mom also wasn't doing very well with her own business. And things changed for us. And I never had a car ever again until I was able to buy my own when I was 15 with a fake license. Did he know that? Yeah, but well, no, an uncle helped me. For us, losing our financial stability was quite shocking and removed our grounds. But for me, it was quite an impact. I was very shocked by what was going on and seeing so many things change around me. And they took me to the park where many orphans live in Baranqui in my hometown. He took you to a park where orphans were. And these orphans, usually they sniff glue or resort to terrible things like those in order to survive the tragedy of their lives. And they showed me that other reality. And it marked me forever. I never forgot that night. And it made me want to do something about it. And I made a promise to myself that day. And being very, very little, I was only seven years old. But I decided that day, I decided that I wanted to succeed in life. I needed to bring my family back. I needed to vindicate them socially and economically and someday. But I also wanted to do something about those kids. Because my entire life, that image remained inside of me and accompanied me. And when I was able to have my big break in Latin America with my album, Piaz Discalza's Barefoot, Translate's Barefoot, I decided to create my own foundation for children. And it was called right after my album as well. It was called Barefoot, The Barefoot Foundation. And since then, we've been working for children. And specifically, providing them a high-quality education. It was a turning point that, to some extent, has motivated you for doing what you're doing right now. Sure. You also wrote after that, I think, your father also lost a son. And you wrote a beautiful song. Beautiful made my hair stand up. And taught classes. Yeah, I think that was my first song when I was eight years old. Eight years old. My first song. And actually, it was included in my first album that was released when I was 13. I started very early. And the dark glasses was? Yeah, the dark glasses, I think, it was a metaphor for him trying to hide, conceal the pain of his loss. I imagine that in my childish head. That's how I interpreted things. And so I wrote a song about it with a spain on it. Beautiful, yeah. Major emotional turning points in your childhood, which obviously has helped you choose how to teach and what to teach little kids. Yeah, coming from a country like mine, growing and being born and raised in a country like Colombia, it definitely shaped me as a person that I am today and shaped my views on the world and what we can do. And if I'm sure about something is that we can all be active. We can all help contribute in some way to change those realities that we don't agree with, those things that we grow up intolerant of, and that you don't really need to be a celebrity to affect change. You can be a stay-at-home mom. You can be a young person going to college or in college. You can be a journalist, of course. But everybody nowadays, thanks to the power of social media, anybody really has a platform and a voice. And there's so much that everyone can do to make issues like the lack of access to ECB programs top of mind so everybody talks about it. All I can say is two things. One is thank God you're an entertainer because I was at the World Cup final in South Africa and you came in the stadium and the whole stadium, you made them rock. That was just a wonderful moment. Do you remember that? I've been at the World Cup three times. I don't think they're going to invite me anymore. Yeah, 2006, 2010, and the last one, 2014 in Brazil. But the year that was really exceptional for me was 2010, which is when I met the father of my kids. I had a double purpose then. Double whammy. So you're amazing, talented, and you don't just write songs, as I mentioned. Sing songs, you write them, you get involved in everything. So everybody wonders, if you weren't a singer, entertainer, songwriter, what would you be? Probably a doctor. Doctor? Yeah, I like medicine. I would have probably gone to medical school. But now I'm so fascinated by neuroscience and all the new discoveries on the brain, on the human brain that that would probably be my specialty in neuroscience. Yeah, and you can do so much for people who are the doctor. I think so. I think that if we all had the consciousness, the awareness that we can all do so much for others, no matter what you do in life. I mean, as a matter of fact, for the issue of early childhood that needs so much awareness, public campaigns are such an important part of it. And like I said before, making the issue top of mind, anyone can share thoughts on the internet. Anyone can share literature on the issue. If you work in peer and marketing, you can help craft a marketing campaign that perhaps shows parents and teachers how to best stimulate their children in the first years of their lives. If you are in the mobile and tech industry, for example, you can share your bandwidth. You can use your bandwidth to share or give for free educational material. It's amazing. Yeah, universities can step up their research, can actually help develop a curriculum for pre-K, which doesn't exist currently in many, many countries. So there is really so much that can be done. And like I said before, you don't have to be a politician or a singer-songwriter or a model. No, it is. You can be. To bring attention, to draw attention to these important issues or other causes that people really resonate with them. Let me take a quick poll of the audience. How many would have preferred Shakira be a doctor and how many prefer her being an entertainer? Hands up for doctor. I'd be an amazing doctor. No, entertainer. How many really entertainer? Everybody entertainer. So just as well you did. I've always wondered you had so many. I'd be a sexy doctor, though. I'd put my best effort. I've always wondered, one famous song which you wish you had sung? There's so many songs that I sometimes feel like, oh, damn, I wish I would have written that one. It happens often. I think it happens to all of us singers and that we wish we would have had those songs that would have thought of that one first. Such a brilliant idea. I can't think of anything right now, but I do get that feeling often. You do get it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You used to sing, and now, fortunately, is my generation. I can see a few Elvis Presley always on my mind. Oh, that's an amazing song. Yeah, you sang it beautifully. Yeah, I sang it once for a VH1 special, The Divas. Remember, vividly, because it was Mariah Carey. There was, yeah, Melissa Edwards, Mary J. Blyche. Cher was there. Yeah, she's amazing. And we were all singing classic songs. And I had to sing that one. Actually, I chose that one. I like it. Elvis fan, like your dad? Yeah, big time. Yeah, OK. You won't sing one line of Always On Your Mind now? We'll join in. Ready to join in? Of course, we'll join. You were always on my mind. You were always on my mind. Amazing. Wow, beautiful. I'm shy. That was really good. Did you say you were shy? I am shy. That's wonderful. I swear to God. I mean, I kind of have the, you know, everything, the proper stage, the band in the back. Everything has to be ready for, you know, for production. But when I'm in the middle of a small group, I get a little shy. This is a small group for me. You need 25,000 people. Then you're not shy. Exactly, any more, and then I get, whew, listen up. Now, I've always wondered, in your generation, our generation, me and your dad, same generation, haven't left you the greatest world? It's polluted, climate change. So a lot from us you should de-learn, and some of you did.  I agree with you. I think that my parents' generation and generations before them had to deal with so much suffering, and they struggled so much that perhaps they grew immune to human pain, and those images of destruction became commonplace for many of them. And perhaps they accepted or assumed that they couldn't change the reality that they were brought up with, that they were unchangeable truths. So I would certainly hope that my kids don't feel that way, and that they know that they can't change anything. Of course, there can really be agents of change. There can be the architect of their own destiny, our common destiny, as a human race, and that they can really contribute something to society. Yeah, I think that indifference is the worst, and complacency is the worst enemy of progress.  Secret. Before you say that, influences in your life, these turning points, two or three of them that affect your child development, I mean your approach to child development, in your personal life, three influences, your turning points that you think, look, I want the kids I teach not to go through that, or to learn from that. Well, I know that, for example, if we, I was born and raised in a country at war. My country, I saw an internal conflict surrounded me. By the way, I do want to say to everybody, Colombia is the most beautiful country in the world.  Most underestimated, people don't know enough about it. Do you can go there, gorgeous country and wonderfully friendly people, sorry. It's beautiful, it's true, and it's people are the best, I think, because they're all the best the country has to offer, really. They make you feel at home, right? Yeah, I'm just, boldly, our whole family was just looked after by a family of Colombians who gave up their life for that, you know, wonderful. But you were saying. That's very sweet, I love it when someone speaks so highly of my country. But what were we talking about? Influences, sorry, influences in your life. It's called post pregnancy brain, but it has lasted like four years in my case. Couple of influences in your life which you make sure your children that you've learned from and you don't want them to go through it and you make sure in your teaching. Well, violence, mainly, I grew up in a very violent country and now, Colombians all more than ever are hopeful that our kids and the newer generations and generations to come will be able to live in a peaceful environment where they can flourish. And however, I'm convinced that if we do want long lasting peace, real sustainable peace, we need to think how important it is to achieve a commitment from all sectors of society, you know, not only the public sector, not only the government, but also the private sector. They have a great responsibility and a critical, critical role to play. And also all sectors of society, we all have to be committed to give equal opportunities to the poor. And if you offer equal opportunities to the poor, then we're talking about a more prosperous and stable country and a more prosperous and stable world. So I do hope that my kids understand that. The bigger picture. The bigger picture and how important it will be for them to be committed to make a better world, to leave this world better than we found it. And that's actually the secret that I can think of. Things I haven't said before is that I secretly hope that my kids can become humanitarians. My own children. My own children, yeah. I don't know exactly for what causes or I will never push anything to them, but I just hope that they are aware of the power that they can have as human beings in this new world that we're building. Because it is a completely new world. I mean, we're going through the fourth industrial revolution. Everything is changing. And new realms are opening up in front of ourselves ahead of us. But it also comes with many, many challenges. Existing models, economic models are being disrupted. And from here in 2050, there will be massive growth of population and there will be starvation if we don't feed nine billion people. So we have to find smart ways, strategic ways to sustain our planet, climate change, unemployment, so many things.  Well, my children and all the children in the world, those 250 million kids who are at risk of not receiving enough access to stimulation, education, nutrition, all of those elements that are going to be so vital to prepare them, to prepare them for what's coming. That's beautiful. We are already here and we are already facing so many, many challenges. But there are more to come and our kids, not only my kids, your kids and those 250 million kids who are at risk need to be prepared to face them in smart ways, strategic ways. And for that, they all need access to education and information. That's beautiful and something's gonna make all of everybody angry. I've been told we've run out of time. Oh. Yeah. You're not gonna talk forever just when it comes to lichah. God bless you.  That's gonna kill me because once one of them to be a football player, but I don't know about that. No, but really, whatever they do in life, even if they dedicate their lives to making shoes or whatever that they feel passionate about, they can put it at service of social good and they can find creative ways to solve social problems. And we, as we all can.  I thought your secret was going to be that you're actually motivated by Bollywood. I love Bollywood. I love Bollywood. Your hips don't lie song. It has got some Bollywood elements, right? It does. Yeah, it's inspired by it and greatly, yeah. I don't know if anybody wants to do hipstone lie here. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. God bless you.