Hey everyone, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm doing a Curly Hair Challenge collaboration with some fellow curly YouTubers. This collaboration will be with Curly Penny, Glamour Zen, India Batson and Leah Aliana. All of these girls have a bunch of curly hair videos, but tutorials on their channel and today we're challenging each other to try to do an entire curly hair routine for under $20. This actually was a challenge. These curly hair products keep going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up in price, but we had to find some good ones on the low. Fortunately, I was able to find some affordable products, so after you watch my video, make sure you check out their videos below in the description box and see what curly hair products they found under $20. Now I actually took this challenge one step further and made it a little bit more challenging for myself because I wanted to make sure to find products that still didn't have sulfates, parabens or silicone. Those are three ingredients that I always tried to avoid in my hair product and I quickly realized that so many natural hair brands have silicone. Like this was really a struggle and this is how my shopping trip went. Okay, let's see. Silicone. Silicone just says straight up silicone, not even demethicone. Demethicone. The only products that I've been able to find for this price range is Cantu. Cantu has it right on the front, no sulfates, silicones, parabens. This is what I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna get their conditioner.  You better have shampoo. You better have shampoo. Is this the only one that's open? No. No. I don't think they have any more shampoo. Okay, I've made my decision. I'm going to get the Cantu shape butter for natural hair hydrating cream conditioner as well as the Palmer's Olive Oil Shampoo and the Curl Activator Cream. Okay, now that we are back from the store once again here are my products that I bought and I've got the receipt to prove I was in budget. Okay, so I got it right here. That's what I'm talking about. The Palmer shampoo was 539. The Cantu conditioner was 579 and the Cantu Curl Activator was 699. So let me show you exactly how I applied all these products. Let's wash this hair. So starting off with the shampoo, I got the Palmer's Olive Oil Formula. This is the Smoothing Shampoo for unruly, frizz-prone hair. The smell is just very generic. It just smells like normal soap, like you might just find in a random bathroom or hotel, but it doesn't smell good. It doesn't have any sulfates, parabens, mineral oils, so that's great. I also love that it had Jamaican Black Castor Oil in it. 100% pure olive oil and vitamin E. Now let's grab our conditioner. This is the Cantu Shave Butter for natural hair sulfate free hydrating cream conditioner. This one smells like the normal yummy coconut smell that we're probably all used to. Now I will say that it did have an okay amount of slip, but I felt like I needed to add more to really get the tangles. So I did find myself applying a lot of conditioner to get the tangles, but it still eventually got the job done. And now for the Styler. This is the Cantu Shave Butter Curl Activator Cream. This has the same similar smell, the same coconut smell that most natural products have. And I applied a very generous amount to my hair, but I learned that I didn't even have to put as much as I did. A little does go a long way and I'm applying it to damp hair right out the shower.  This is all to help get the best curl definition. And as you can see, my curls already look very shiny. Today I let my curls just naturally air dry, but this is how it looked once it dried after a few hours. My curls were very soft, very bouncy, and had no crunch. And I'm back with my day two hair of only using the Curl Activator Cream. So I did use the Cantu Curl Activator on day one as you saw and then I used a little bit more to refresh today and my hair still looks pretty darn fabulous. I love how this stuff gives you just the right amount of hold. So although it's a cream, it almost dries like a gel, but not as crunchy as a gel.  My curls are very defined, it's really containing the frizz and it's giving me the volume that I really desire. I think it's great for all of us to know that there are some great products out there that will not damage your hair that are valued at around five dollars. So now you have proof that no matter what your budget is, your curls can be popping. Yes, there are high-end products that work amazing, but there's also drugstore products that work amazing.  If you know of some other brands that also have natural ingredients and are very affordable, please leave a comment down below so we all can help each other out. We all want to save some coins. Now that you've seen my curly hair products of choice, make sure you watch Curly Penny, Glamour Zen, India Batson, and Leah Aliana's videos so you can see what products they chose. All their videos will be below in the description box. Check out their videos, subscribe to their channels, and leave a comment letting them know that you came from Bianca Renee today. If you enjoyed this video, please give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week, foundation Fridays on Friday, and curly hair videos on Sundays. So if you enjoyed this video, there's plenty more where that came from. Push that little bell so you're the first to know when I post a new video. 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Hello and welcome to the session. The given question says, the sum of two numbers is eight. Determine the numbers of the sum of their reciprocals is eight divided by fifteen. Let's start with the solution. Here we are given that the sum of two natural numbers is equal to eight. So let the numbers be, and if one number is x then other is eight minus x. Now we are further given that the numbers if reciprocate them then their sum is equal to eight divided by fifteen. So according to the question one divided by x plus one divided by eight minus x is equal to eight divided by fifteen. Or we further have x into eight minus x. In the numerator we have eight minus x plus x is equal to eight divided by fifteen. Or we have eight divided by x into eight minus x is equal to eight divided by fifteen. Or in cross multiplying we have x into eight minus x is equal to fifteen. Which further implies that x square minus eight x plus fifteen is equal to zero. Now as splitting the middle term it can further be written as x square minus three plus five into x plus fifteen is equal to zero. Or we have x square minus three x minus five x plus fifteen is equal to zero. Now taking x common from the first two terms and minus five common from the last two terms we have x into x minus three minus five into x minus three is equal to zero. Or we have x minus three into x minus five is equal to zero. Now we know that if the product of two numbers is equal to zero then either a is equal to zero or we have b is equal to zero. So this implies that x minus three is equal to zero or x minus five is equal to zero. So this implies x is equal to three or five. So this is the first number. So the other number will be eight minus three that is five or eight minus five that is three. Hence the answer is the two natural numbers are three or five. So this completes the session. Bye and take care.


Let's look into some advanced features to edit, debug, and export your recordings from the Recorder panel. To learn the basics, please watch my previous video on google.gear-dev2-recorder. There are two ways to debug your user flows. You can slow down the replay or set the breakpoint to execute step by step. Expand the replay button drop-down. There are four speed options. Try to replay it very slowly and observe the differences. You can cancel the replay anytime if you feel it's too slow. Apart from that, you can click on the blue dot next to each step to set breakpoints. Start replay, the recorder will pause at the first breakpoint. Click on the continue button to resume the execution until the next breakpoint. Alternatively, click on this button to execute one step at a time. When you pause at the breakpoint, you can perform action on the page or switch to another panel for further inspection or manipulation. The recorder supports different types of events. Some are auto-detected during the recording, some are not. You need to edit manually. For example, you have a user flow to add a coffee, hover over the checkout button and add one more. Notice that the hover event is not captured. It will fail if you replay again. You need to edit manually once you finish the recording. Click on the three dot menu, add a step before and change the type. Here, you can see a list of all supported events. Select hover, you can manually edit the selector or use the selector picker to update it. Replay again and yay, it's successful. There are different options for you to configure the step depending on the type. For example, expand the click step. You can add a button property then set it to secondary to make it a right click action. You can also add a device type. The device type supports mouse, pen or touch. Learn about more configuration in our documentation. The recorder currently supports two basic assertions. You can add a step to wait for element or use wait for expression. For example, you want to check if there are two coffees on the checkout list. Add a step to wait for element, use the selector picker to pick on the element. In this case, we need to edit the selector manually. After that, add the operator and count. In our case, we want to set it to equal equal and two. Replay it and yes, it's successful. If you set the count to three, the replay will fail. If you want to assert the total price on screen, you can use the wait for expression to do so. Add a step to wait for expression. Type in your expression with JavaScript. In this case, we want to assert that the inner text of the button is equal to $29. We are aware of the syntax is slightly lengthy. Tell us what improvements you would like to see here using the feedback link. Next, let's talk about the different export options and what you can do with them. When you export your user flow in JSON, not only can you share with friends and re-import it back to the recorder, you can also use some NPM rivalries to replay it. For example, save the JSON to a Node.js project and install Puppeteer Replay and Puppeteer. After that, you can replay one or more JSON files with this command. With this command, you can then schedule it to run as part of your CI-CD workflow. I have a code example here to show you how to do it. There are other third-party libraries that support replay programmatically as well. For example, TestCafe and SourceLabs. Make sure you check out the full list in our documentation. Now, you might be wondering what the export as Puppeteer script options is for. It is similar to the JSON option, except the user flow now is exported as a JavaScript object. This export option allows you to customize your workflow execution instantly. For example, if you want to save a screenshot after every step, you can modify this file to implement the runner extension. When you execute the user flow, the screenshots are saved. Go to this link to learn more about customizing the user flow and code them all. The last export option here is export as Puppeteer script. We only recommend this option if you are familiar with Puppeteer and want to have full control and significant customization of the code. Well, I like. That's not all. You can install extensions to export the user flows into other formats. In the Chrome Web Store, install an extension. Then, open the new browser tab with DevTools. Open the user flow in the recorder panel, click on the export button. You should see the new option here. You can export the user flow as a web page test custom script for performance analysis or convert it to different test scripts like Cypress, WebDriver.io, NightWash, Testing Library, and more. Go to this link for the full list of extensions and how to use them. We also include a troubleshooting guide in case you have issues launching the extension. Some of these extensions also publish a NPM library to let you convert the user flows programmatically. This makes it easier for you to convert multiple user flows at once. In case you want to create your own library or extension, we have a guide here as well. The recorder panel, extensions, and libraries are still new. So remember to give us feedback or report any issues you find. You can also tweet at us to show us some support. That's all. See you for the next DevTools Tips.


What's good, Josh? We're all back again with another video. So I'm going to check out 15 things that happened for the first time in WWE for 2023. Should be a very interesting one by tap out corner. He always has some great videos. We definitely didn't see some first time evers in WWE. So I'm looking forward to checking out this list, going back down memory lanes to some of the first times in WWE for this year. Appreciate all love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Around 70 years and still there are things that haven't happened until 2023. A lot of them are positive, but this first one might make you mad. In the main event of night one of WrestleMania 39, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn fought the Usos for the undisputed great man event, great great great man in a match. Jimmy and Jay hit Zayn with the D1 or the 3D as fans of deadly boys would call it. Why is this a big deal? Yeah, no one in WWE had ever kicked out of that finishing move, which is an incredibly rare thing in modern wrestling. Surprisingly, this wasn't the only first that happened in this match by partake. Bro, he kicked out. Bro, that's odd. This is such a such a great match, such a great moment, great way to cap off night one of WrestleMania. In my opinion, the superior night. Night two was definitely had some really good stuff. But I feel like night one was just a complete package. This was great. Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, the Usos main event in WrestleMania, crowd going crazy, him kicking out the 1D. It's just, it's just fantastic, bro. Taking in the match, Sami Zayn became the first Muslim to main event WrestleMania. Wow. This is also the first time a tag team championship match was in the WrestleMania main event. And that that's just a testament to how good they have set up this bloodline story. First tag team has to main event WrestleMania and it was worth every single penny for those who paid and went there live. Kevin Owens also made history. Thanks to his tag team title match, as well as his match Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 38 the year prior, KO became the first person to main event back-to-back WrestleMania's without a world title being on the line. That's crazy, man. There are some more firsts that happened at WrestleMania 39, which we'll share in a bit. First, I got to share this next one because it's crazy. On the final SmackDown before the 2023 Royal Rumble, Bobby Lashley confronted his opponent, Brock Lesnar. Lashley was treated to an F5, but that's not what stood out. This was the first time since 2007 that Lashley physically appeared on SmackDown. And don't forget, Bobby Lashley had been part of the WWE roster since 2018. Lashley topped himself a couple of months later when he competed in the Under the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Before that, Bobby Lashley's most recent SmackDown match was from March 23rd, 2007. Damn, didn't even realize that. Since Bobby competed on SmackDown. Just like in 2007 though, Bobby Lashley won the Under the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Talking about appearances, this one is even more insane. Since Monday Night Raw began in 1993, Vince McMahon always made at least one appearance, if not multiple, on WWE shows. That came to an end in 2023. Despite returning to WWE in a corporate role, McMahon did not make any appearances on TV this year. On a similar note, since WWE was founded back- That's you're right. He has not shown up on television. None this year. That's crazy. Wow. The times have changed and some would say for the better. In 1953, as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, the company has always been owned by McMahon. However, in April 2023, WWE was sold to the talent and media holding company Endeavor. Then on September 12th, 2023, the deal was finalized and after 70 years, WWE was no longer owned by the McMahon family. Something most people thought would never have. Which is crazy. Here's something else a lot of people never thought just the thought of that, that McMahon doesn't own WWE anymore like that. It's just it's mind boggling. I've always thought it was going to somehow somewhere. McMahon was going to always own the company, but things have changed. The times have changed and that's crazy to think that that's not the case anymore. And regardless, if you like AEW or not, it is amazing that we live in a time where there's a second major wrestling company. One reason that's cool is because of what happened on May 28th, 2023. That day, AEW held its Double or Nothing pay-per-view. At the same time, WWE hosted NXT Battleground. This was the first time in over 30 years, WWE had a pay-per-view that went head-to-head with another major wrestling company. The last time this happened was on April 2nd, 1989, when WrestleMania V went head-to-head with WCW's clash for the champion six. The real question though is who won AEW or WWE? Attendance-wise, Battleground had 3,482 fans in the crowd. AEW had three times that number at 10,550, although only 9,000 were paying fans. As for pay-per-view buy rates, AEW wins by default with 140,000 homes putting money down to watch Double or Nothing. NXT Battleground, on the other hand, was streamed on Peacock and the WWE Network with no viewership numbers publicly available. The Undertaker has accomplished a lot of things that most wrestlers can only dream of. What makes it even more impressive is despite retiring in 2020, the Deadman is still adding to his impressive resume. On the October 10th, 2023 episode of NXT, Brock Lesnar fought Carmelo Hayes and lost.  However, Undertaker came out to take care of business and taught Brock a lesson. This was the first time the Undertaker had ever appeared on NXT. Keep in mind, NXT started back in 2010 when the Undertaker was still a full-time wrestler. Seth Rollins and AJ Styles world WWE Championship. No, that was a, that was just a star stunt at NXT. They pulled out all the stars for that particular episode. And yeah, it was one of those type of things where it was, it was fun to see some of the legends. We get it why they did it, you know, obviously to pop a rating, but still nevertheless, it was fun to see those, you know, the Undertaker in NXT. People that was there, I'd know for a fact they, they enjoyed themselves. Match at night of champions 2023 made history. Not only did Seth become the inaugural world WWE champ, but this is also the first time a WWE world title had been won outside of Europe and North America. Since the event took place in Saudi Arabia. Speaking of Saudi Arabia, since WWE started writing shows in the country in April 2018, one man has wrestled on every single event. That was until Crown Jewel 2023 in November. Despite wrestling on the previous nine other Saudi Arabia rock, Lesnar did not have a match. It's a shame. That's crazy. He has wrestled on every single one of them. That's very interesting. I forgot all about that. Most of them are forgettable, but yeah, he's wrestled down there on every single one. Had Lesnar competed at Crown Jewel 2023, it would have been a perfect tag. Speaking of international 2020 was a good year to be Yeah, yeah. The first time since 2005, WWE broadcasted a pay-per-view or a premium live event from the territory. Not only that, but the night before backlash, WWE hosted its first ever televised show from Puerto Rico when SmackDown aired from San Juan. Now, So good. Let me share with you those other wrestling. Love that man. Backlash, in my opinion, outside of WrestleMania night one. It's probably my favorite favorite PLE of the year. It's that was just a good event because that crowd was so electric. It was so great. Oh, man, I was that was good. And there's been some real good ones this year, but that's one of my favorites for sure. WrestleMania firsts, WrestleMania 35 may have made history for being the first time the main event of WWE's biggest show had all female competitors. However, WrestleMania 39 in 2003 did one better. On night one, Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair fought for the SmackDown Women's Championship. What made this match historic was that this is the first time a woman officiated a woman's match at WrestleMania. WWE referee Jessica Carr was in the ring and laying down the law, making this the first WrestleMania match to involve all women. Roman And I ain't gonna lie to you that match was great. If it wasn't for the tag team championship match being the main event, that definitely could have been the main event. For sure. That was fantastic. That was really, really, really good match. Reigns is breaking all kinds of records with his over three year long reign as world champion. One that he kind of broke by accident happened at WrestleMania 39. On night two, Reigns defends title against Cody Rhodes. This made Roman Reigns the first person to defend a championship at three straight WrestleMania's under the same title reign. Now Roman was in the main event of all three shows. Now watch the best and worst of WWE in 2023 in the finalist. Bro, that's a crazy accomplishment how they've set it up for him. It's just tailed. He's gonna main event another WrestleMania. Oh my God, he's gonna main event another one. The only thing is, will he finally lose?  I hope he does. Oh my goodness. Comment down below. Let me know what's your favorite moment from WWE this year? Doesn't matter if it's a return. No, a lot of y'all probably gonna say seeing a punk returning. Doesn't matter if it's a match, whatever the case may be, what's your favorite moment from WWE this year? Let me know down below. I appreciate all love support you guys have shown on the channel. Road to 150K and I'm still young speedy YouTube rest of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next one. Peace.


Backgammon is a much more fascinating example. Basically, the game is you move checkers around in opposite directions, and when you get to the end, you roll dice and follow rules to bury your pieces off the board. And once you get all your pieces off the board, you win.  In original old-school backgammon, all your pieces started off the board. You rolled to put them on the board, then you went all the way across, and then you took them off the board. And the beginning part, where you keep rolling dice back and forth until all your pieces are on the board, is really slow and boring nonsense that everyone hated doing, and that's why they got rid of it. So over time, again, that evolved out of backgammon. First, they moved from burying pieces on the board to have all the pieces just on the board at the edge to start. And then they did something clever. They moved on further to having all the pieces not only on the board, but on the board in an immediately interesting situation. Right. The reason they are, the way they are on the board, is because that's a situation where, no matter what you roll on the first turn, there's some sort of the most interesting decisions to make.


Boom, what's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host Ahn Sakyun. We are onsite in Manhattan and New York City, New York. And we are going to be talking about all things entrepreneurship, all things ambition today. We're going to be talking about Kevin Siskar and all of his work. I'm really excited to be featuring you on the show. Thank you for having me. Well, glad to be back. I'm excited to be on for a second time. It's amazing. Yes, and we did a Skype the first time and now we're in New York, so we're actually able to do it in person, super pumped. Right here on the heart of Fifth Ave, Midtown. I love it. That's right, right near Central Park. It's exciting stuff that you're working on. Kevin is an investor with a portfolio of over 100 early stage tech companies. He's also, for six and a half years, been working with the Founder Institute in New York. He's now the managing director of the Founder Institute. He's a host of Ambition Today's podcast. And he's a venture partner with Albon Ventures and a co-founder of the New York City Innovation Collective. So there's a lot of entrepreneurship conversation we're going to be having. There's a lot of really aspiring founders and just people that are really motivational that we're going to be talking about and pumped to do that. And it was really great. Last time I was in New York, I came in and helped mentor for FI here. You did. Thank you for taking the time to do that. I appreciate it. You jumped in and mentored one of the sessions for the New York founders. It was awesome.  I really like the there's a lot. You guys are in a lot of cities. Yeah. Two hundred cities. Thousands of entrepreneurs have graduated and their companies are flourishing. And so OK, let's talk. I really like to talk about a big history synthesis of reality to start off the show. Let's do it. So OK, so we find ourselves as these human animals. And now we are stewards of Earth. And we are now hockey sticking up in population, or 7.7 billion of us. We haven't really grown up too much from kindergarten. But we're still doing exponential technology. I'm going to have a Dan Brown inferno situation real soon. Did you read that book? Yeah. OK. What do you think is the current state of humanity? Whoa. So I think it's an interesting time. I think that population is going insane. We have an information problem right now, clearly, with what is truth.  But recent stats in 2010, 2 and 1 half billion people were online. As of Friday before Christmas, half of the world population is now online. 3.75 billion people. Yeah. So we've doubled the size of the internet in the last six or seven years. Mostly because people that didn't have access to broadband and dial up, they had flip phones. Those flip phones, then when they bought their next phone, it was smartphones. And that had internet access. And so all these people were coming online across the world. These $30 smartphones, the really cheap ones too, you can get online. Yeah, exactly. But now they have access to internet. The knowledge base, the collective learning base of civilization. Yeah. And so in New York and the US, we're across the street from Trump Tower right now. We have our own issues with what that means for democracy. And the government's been shut down for 30 days. It's having serious issues. It's causing real problems for the world. And then in other parts of the world, like Sri Lanka, you have issues where, I don't know if you saw last year, the Facebook posts where people on Facebook were slandering a restaurant in racist ways. And then people actually showed up at the front door and started smashing windows. And so all around the world, we're having very similar issues and problems with information and how it's handled. And I think that is probably the biggest, well, climate change is the biggest thing facing the world. Then from an information perspective, that's probably the biggest thing facing society as a whole and a problem we need to solve, I would think. Dang. So that's a really good point that the way that we're dealing with the data flows that we have are kind of like at the kindergarten level. We haven't really figured out how to handle it in the most efficiently possible. And I touched on climate change there. It's like, we're all sitting here wondering why no one is doing anything about it, but it really is sort of the same problem. No one knows what's true. No one really knows how to act on it, what the next steps are.  That seems to be the most true thing. The oceans are acidifying. The parts of million of CO2 are increasing. So we can actually tell some things. Part of the ice sheets are melting. We can see some things. But and we can see really bad air quality in some of the major cities in India and China. Even California. California, I was out there in November. You guys had the wildfires. We did, yeah. Your air quality was worse than Beijing. It was. It was worse. I was there. It smelled horrible. It smelled like plastic. And those fires are a result of global warming. So it's affecting everywhere. Yeah. So my follow-up, and with the data thing, we have big, huge data silos. We don't have decentralization of data flows yet enabling us to best understand all of your biometrics, all of your data, make it relatable to you.  There's so many cool ways to explore that. So I'm curious, what do you think then are some of the best ways to collaborate geopolitically on data and climate? So sharing data with companies or with the government? How do we best move forward on climate and data geopolitically? How do you think we should do that? Oh, boy. I know. Solve our pressing challenges. Kevin, go. Yeah, let me go. I mean, I think there's political challenges that have to be solved there. You have right now in Washington, I was there over the weekend, you have people putting their personal agendas and re-election priorities in front of the will of the people and the overall health of humanity, right? And so when you have people doing that, it's corruption, right? That is the definition of corruption and it becomes really hard to solve these problems. The US pulled out of the Paris Accord. It's really messed up. So how do you solve it? I wish if I had the answer, I would be tweeting it constantly. I don't know that I have the answer. One of the things, the reason that I work in startups is I don't have all the answers and I know that. But I can work with amazing people that do have the answers. I can support them. And so by working with great founders that are maybe working in the political space or building software or things that can fix these problems, that's how I look to have an impact on the world. I feel like a major part of what you just said there is that we have to kind of grow up away from our own egocentric, greedy, corrupt habits and move towards a unity of all beings on this single tribe called Earth. And when we can transition to that, we can move away from some of the greed and some of the corruption. We can raise the baseline of living for everyone and prosper more collectively. I think that was a huge point. And then the next point, we can just transition directly into how entrepreneurs are saving the world. Because in many ways, they totally are. So you support entrepreneurs that have these big ideas on how to save the world. And this has been over 100 plus investments for you. This has also been a bunch of entrepreneurs that have been launched from the New York City chapter, a Founder Institute. And Founder Institute is this super ideal process of taking your idea product company and really launching it off at the end of how long's the period? It's about three and a half months. So three and a half month period. And then by you're getting some of the world's best mentors, you're getting some of the world's best processes of how to become an entrepreneur. And so tell us about how you're supporting the entrepreneurs and these are really good ideas. Yeah, sure. So at the basic level, we run Founder Institute. It's a three and a half month startup accelerator. We're actually kicking off the new cohort here in New York tonight. Hell yeah. We have mentors like David Rose to start in New York. Angels, we have the founder of Skip Hop coming. Just over 140 million. He's coming tomorrow night. So you get access to these really amazing entrepreneurs in New York that can come in once a week in the evening for dinner. Share their lessons. They'll pitch on their story on whatever that week's topic is. Those are invaluable. Yeah, 100%. Access to the network, especially in a city like New York, is amazing. And so you'll hear them present, show their stories. You'll pitch them, get feedback directly on your business, ask questions. Let me sort of all go out and have a few drinks together. That period is so funny. Because I remember being on the other side of the table when I was pitching. The number one thing, I think, for me was always being open to the feedback, no matter how harsh it was. That was the most important thing. Because people aren't going to soft put icing on everything. They're going to tell you an aggressive way sometimes how to change your plan. And so you've got to be really open to all different types of feedback, and then actually incorporating it, iterating on your project. And so that was really crucial. And then it was really strange sitting on the other side of the table where I was giving feedback. Because I was always trying to be kind, but also be serious about the changes they need to make. Sometimes if you're too kind, the point just gets missed. Exactly. That's right. But sometimes when you're super aggressive, they'll close off. So it's like a closed loop feedback system of mentors to entrepreneurs. And that seems to be one of the most crucial parts of Founder Institute. Yeah, I mean, it's great. And the best part is sometimes the mentors take a personal vested interest in these companies beyond just the Founder Institute sessions. So a lot of times they sign on to be direct advisors to these companies, formally stay with them, really work with them. So that's great, too. Yeah. And then besides the closed loop feedback systems with mentors, which I still think is just mind blowing, because that's what so many young entrepreneurs are missing is just their ability to be able to go and talk to three or five other somewhat successful entrepreneurs and just hear from them about what they can do better. Because if that was just more readily available, I think we would more easily have more entrepreneurs. So besides that, tell us about the other epicness that happens in this three and a half. Yeah, sure. So you're put in a working group, simulates a board of directors. Going to your point earlier, it's about some of the things about human psychology that's limiting everything, right? We're all, as humans, really bad at holding ourselves, but even to our own goals, right? And so the working group simulates a board of directors. You meet with them twice a week. And really their job is to hold you true to your own goals and keep you accountable, which is really hard as a founder, especially when you're maybe for the first time in your life breaking out from a structured, corporate, you have a boss employee relationship, to finally having to set an agenda for yourself and keep yourself accountable to it. Maybe you work from home and there's distractions in your home. And it's really hard to build that regimen and that routine. And so we help you sort of start to build those habits and foster that. You also have about 30 hours of curriculum assignments each week, and those are company building things, right? So those are things like, for the legal assignment, can you incorporate a C Corp in Delaware, right? And so all these things are very foundational.  That's right. So you're actually helping them understand what are some good steps. And then they go and execute on these steps so that they can gain the actual experience points from the process and then really put that into there, literally put it into through epigenetic processing into themselves, and then add that to other people's lives by passing it along to other people. That way more and more people know how to incorporate businesses, they know how to actually put together business plans and go and pitch and raise money and sell a product to market, learn how to market it, learn how to manufacture things. And one of the interesting things on that point is we're not the company institute, we're the founder institute, right? And so more often than not, you see these people have these personal growth stories. And even if they don't hit it out of the park on their first company, they come, they do a second company, and really you can just see that they've grown, that they've learned, that they can just execute so much better in the months going forward. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That slow, that even after just three and a half months, just it's a day, it's a day to day, you gotta hustle, you gotta hustle, but then at the end, it seems like it breezed by and then you're so much more ready to tackle what you need to do moving forward. And we've added postgraduate programs now, so we have equity in this company as well, we see them succeed, they're in the family, so we help with fundraising, product, traction, and we help the founders for the life of the company, both here in New York and then also out of our headquarters in California. Yep, yep, that's so crucial is there's a continued process even after they fly out of the nest, you're still helping them with some currents of wind to help them fly. Now what percentage of the companies that you see are in like software, hardware, et cetera? Yeah, so we're industry agnostic, we will build whatever the founders wanna build, so I have food companies, drone companies, I just had my first biotech company that's doing, yeah, you'll probably like this, they're doing, they partnered with NASA because NASA has a patent commercialization program, so they got a carbon nanotube mesh capsule, and then one of the co-founders is from Wheel Cornell and he engineers on cells that basically will produce the enzymes to eliminate blood transfusions for fabric diseases, and so they're putting those cells in the NASA capsules, and so basically someone with a fabric disease could just get this injection and have that changed every six months versus going to the hospital every two weeks to take four hours of blood transfusions. Damn. So they're called Kepp cell biologics, and then we also have school and education and ed tech and Amazon automation scripts. We're industry agnostic, so we'll really help a founder build what is lies of the expertise at the crossroads of their own personal expertise and network. Yeah, and this is what really helps for, not only are you industry agnostic, which is huge, because then you can take on whoever you want, but it's also interesting to see and hear all of these different industries like you just listed, which are, not only does that build up a new sort of mentorship array that you guys get to have, it builds up, in those mentors, it's really important for them to also have a broad lens on the world as well so they can help mentor all the different companies that are coming in. It's really interesting, because there's a debate in venture capital right now. I guess not a debate, but there's competing strategies of do you build a niche accelerator, like do we build the retail accelerator, and we only have retail mentors, we only have retail companies, because we can then leverage more specifically for the founders, or do you build a generalist accelerator, which is kind of the way of the past, it's how founder institutes built, that's how tech stars, y-com monitors all built. Versus like Indie bio, which is specifically biotech. Right, and so one of the things we've done is we've really pushed for scale, we're in 200 cities, but what that's done is we have 10,000 mentors in our system around the world, and so we can tag those mentors by expertise and by geo, and then we can build software to automate those niches within our global network, right? So we're doing things a little bit differently, but we're really confident in the long game and what it comes to. Yeah, the tagging of the mentors is super important, and then just being able to pair mentors up with young aspiring entrepreneurs is super important. Yeah, the close of loop is that you create with automation software will be very interesting in the future that you built out 10,000 mentor network that's so interesting and so crucial across the world. There seems to be, I would say, a lack of entrepreneurship in high schools and even younger, because kids don't even really realize that they can pursue ideas, their imaginations, that they can actually go and execute them and start even businesses as simple as making websites at young ages and then distributing products or ideas through those websites. How old were you when you built your first website? I believe it was distributing collegiate clothing, so it was, I think, around 18, 19. Really? I think so. I built my first website in the fifth grade. See, that's badass. But it was like, back then, it was Geocities, right? Yeah. Which I think you would basically just template or build stuff out, I didn't code, right? But I think to your point, my podcast ambition today, I'm gonna interview a lot of entrepreneurs about their journey, right? And we always start with their childhood because I'm always trying to find the little steps that led to their success, right? And one of the things I found is- And that links in the bio for ambition today. Go and check it out. We'll be talking about it. Everywhere podcasts are found, check it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But seriously, so one of the things I found is the most successful entrepreneurs, most of them today had some sort of entrepreneurial influence in their childhood. Totally. And they may not have even realized it, but they had an uncle or a father or a mother or someone that encouraged these habits in them. And they didn't really realize it and then later in life, things just sort of match up in college when you're trying to figure it out. And they realized that, oh, wow, I fit in with that group of people and they're entrepreneurs and this is what they do. And so I would say it's really important. And we probably don't do enough of it in high school to spark that curiosity. Because even making this GeoCities website or even making you going into your Java coding class, this is not enough. This is the bare bones of what is needed. There's like a whole new way of teaching entrepreneurship to young people that is yet to be really discovered and implemented in scalable ways and with these closed loop mentor feedback systems and all this type of stuff that I think is gonna, the imagination of kids is so vivid and interesting. And so we gotta really enable that better. You know, you started talking about these influences that come in. I think another one of the crucial influences is anti conformist thinking. Yeah. When I looked out at the world, I was like, this is come on. Why is everyone and their mother doing nine to five work? I'm like, there's gotta be something else about life where we can get out of the cubicles and the rat race.   Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And so that's, that was a big one. I think that's a big mantra of our generation though too, right? Yeah. There was a good BuzzFeed article a few weeks ago about burnout and why millennials think the way they do and why going to the post office and sending a letter is just so daunting. But like, and we will crave everything in like a one click app button, right? Really good article, it's called How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. It's a long read, but it's a really interesting read. It's a good one, yeah. But yeah, I mean, it's an interesting trend. We'll see what happens with that, you know? The baby boomers think that we're all entitled. We think the baby boomers got, you know, everything that they ever needed at upon graduation of high school. There was a really good SNL skit this weekend about called Millennial Millionaires and it was a game show where you could win everything that the baby boomers got upon graduating high school and millennials are spending 20 years to get, right? Like paying off their student loans and the ability to have enough savings to buy a house and we're also moving into these metropolises which is making it so that we don't really care so much about a house, we don't really care so much about a car, we just care about being close to the network effect. Yeah, yeah, I mean, our parents' generation, at least in the United States, depending on what you're watching this, everyone left the cities. For the suburbs. For the suburbs, right? 3,000 square foot houses. Yeah, I'm from Buffalo. The city was the wealthiest city at the turn of the century because the Erie Canal connecting New York to the Great Lakes and then, you know, the population went in half and we're now seeing resurgence over the last 10 years in places like Buffalo, Detroit and other cities around the country but a lot of people are moving back downtown and I think that's partially what's driving that. Yeah, it even goes as far as to see that McDonald's corporate headquarters went all the way out to suburbs of Chicago and then they recently were like, uh-uh, we're not getting any of the millennial and Gen Z talent anymore so they went and built a brand new headquarter in downtown Chicago in the West Loop and so that's the type of behavior that we're seeing from these major companies to stay relevant. What would you say are, let's try with three key principles of an entrepreneur mindset. Okay. I would say incredibly curious about really just anything and everything and constantly wanting to figure out how everything works, right? And digging in on those, following that curiosity. You have to maintain some focus and when you're building a company versus just experimenting, you have to make sure that curiosity keeps you on track but I think that's a hallmark. Being really scrappy and digging in, right? And so not sitting around and waiting for something to happen to enable the next thing but really just doubling down saying, you know, just making it work. Like I don't care if the front, you have a pretty website and on the back end there's no code and it's a pencil and paper and you running around, you know, with your AI is connecting and matching people, like just get it done, just figure out that there's a problem and that people are willing to pay for it to be solved, right? And then from there, you can start to build software to automate things, right? But the people that sit around and for a technical co-founder or oh, I just need money or just forget all that. You just need to get going.  You know, I would say to the network, you can't build a company on your own. You just can't, right? And so, the people that have good networks, they make meaningful relationships.  You cannot just burn people and walk all over them. And so, building up that network, taking the time to do that is instrumental in growing the, having a shot of starting a company and growing it. Mm, those are so good, I love it. Curiosity, so crucial. Understanding how everything in the world works, really trying to dig deep into getting how things work and then being scrappy, really focused and scrappy, being totally cool with living low SES in order to be able to succeed the last one's network. So, really understanding that your network's your net worth. You gotta go and parse the events that you go to and find the top five people at those events that have the highest cloud, that are building the future and go and introduce yourselves to them, provide them with value, ask them how you can help them, ask them about their lives and what they learned and their lessons, and then that will tie you closer into the loop of people that are actually building. And the other big advantage there is like, it's 2019, right? So, I have probably made more meaningful relationships on Twitter, just, you know, like everything you just said, but digitally, right? And then I meet those people in the real world, we become friends, like, you know. So, there's ways to do this, even if you're not in a New York or an SF, to connect and plug in. Totally. And that means when you do find that person on the internet, do not be scared to go and dig, search their name, follow with their email, name email, and try and find or DM them on Twitter, et cetera, or Instagram, wherever you're at, but reach out to them and provide them with that value. Reach out, that's something that so many of us hesitate on. Yeah, just go try to grab a coffee and, you know, at the worst case, you have some bad conversation, at the best case, you learn. You gotta ask some good questions. That's the thing is, gotta ask them good questions because then there's never a bad conversation. So, come prepared with your five or 10 questions that you wanna ask them about their life and what they built. Well, I'm gonna go back to curiosity, too, because I feel like really curious people have gotten good at asking the right questions. That's right. And people that aren't used to digging in ask the wrong question. Too general or too off to the right, or they lead the answer, right?  Exactly, I'm trying to myself find out, like you said, we're testing hypothesis every time that I ask a question. I'm trying to not be too leading. I'm trying to, yeah, all this important stuff. Be emotionally intelligent and present with the EQ. Okay, a couple other thoughts. So, with the ambition today, how many episodes have you done over the last couple of years? So, we just hit episode 50. 50, dope. Yes, I know you're way ahead of me on this, but. But you do, you have two weeks. But I do them every, like, two weeks. This is our only fake we do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, just in episode 50. Cool. So, it's been two years, then? It's been almost three years, because I started August 2015, took a break off before my wedding for a few months, and then we really fired it back up in the last year, so. Love it. Yeah, basically interviewing successful entrepreneurs that have built, grown, and sold their companies, and then going through their life story, right? And trying to pick apart, like a scientist, the parts that are replicable for anyone else listening. Yeah. And a lot of what you mentioned earlier with the curiosity, scrappiness, and network actually is part of these stories of entrepreneurs that you get to hear. Yeah, I would say there's themes, right? And so, if you listen to two, three, four, five episodes, you'll start to see these themes arise. And then, the goal is ideally you could, I think everyone wants to see themselves in the hero's journey, right? And so, people start to think about how they can better those parts of their life as well, to be more effective for themselves. Yeah, yep, that's really crucial. Again, you're learning from the best, and you're implementing those skills into your life. That's something that we gotta hustle.  I have the conscious choice every day to pick. Or am I going to turn off the GaryVee videos and actually do some work? And actually can hustle. Yeah. Yeah, because we can get too trapped into the cycle of only watching and not executing. 100%. Yeah, yeah. I'm guilty of that myself. I mean, that's the other trap for the curious person is like, you feel like you always just need to keep learning. And at some point, it's like, man, you write every book in the library. Like, you know exactly what you're doing, you just need to go do it. Yeah, yeah. That's a good point is don't get trapped in too curious to the extent of which you don't actually build. Some people's, I've learned this, Kevin, and you might find this interesting. I've learned that some people actually care about just hanging out around the edge of knowledge, of like society's knowledge, and just like dealing with different people on the edge, but not really like, not really being an entrepreneur necessarily, but just helping all of the people along the scientific or business edges of the world. So I find that when I say, you gotta go execute, you gotta go execute, sometimes executing means having conversations with those people at the edge, but then how do you monetize that and sustain yourself, et cetera. Yeah, it depends on what your goals are, right? And so if you, I guess I'm talking from the aspect of if you wanna start a company. That's right. But you're right, there's other people there. And so I would urge everybody to figure out what their North Star, like if you had a personal mission statement, like what is that? And then figure out how you can start to align things in your life to you accomplishing that, right? My mission statement, I actually like formalized this in the last year is I want to help founders improve the lives of one billion people. I love it. And so I know that if I were to do something, I can have a little bit of an impact, but if I can help a bunch of people have an impact, I can then make my butterfly effect impact on the world. And so, yeah. There's, I think personally as well that there's, that's memetics. You're prioritizing the dissemination of ideas and businesses to the world rather than, I think genetics, which is a lot of people are stuck in the procreation, investing my time into only my kids and only my family. That has caused this in many ways to be at the end of this hockey stick of exponential technology and hockey stick of population without really growing up from kindergarten much. I think so. So I think- But I think if you do the former instead of the latter to your point, the long-term effects compound, right? So what I've seen is investing in other people helping them, all the stuff that you would normally fight for in that other scenario comes naturally. Absolutely, absolutely. Now, what would you say are some of the takeaways from the 100 plus companies you've invested into? That's a good question. I've actually been wanting to do a blog post on this and I haven't done it yet, so this might be a rough answer. Let's see the rough answer. What are the biggest takeaways? Biggest takeaways I would say are it's really hard for people to get and stay in a growth mindset. I think a lot of people have the vision. They don't, but then sometimes people get lost on the bridge between where they are and where they wanna go, right? And so it's really tricky, it can be really hard. It's kind of like fighting. And last time I think I was on, we talked about pushing a boulder up a hill and we got a little carried away with the boulder analogy, so we won't do it this time. But I think really staying focused, really playing long term, but really thinking how you could build a big globally scalable company. Because I think a lot of people, sometimes can get some money coming in and then they get lost in keeping that going, right? One of the analogies I like to draw is a more and more simple business that really anyone can understand, right? Whereas thinking like a snow plowing business, if you could drive one truck, you have 40 hours a week, you could do X number of driveways, right? The moment you do a second truck, you can then rinse and repeat that to a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and you could scale, right? But in order to do that, you have to, there's only so much time in a day, you have to spend less hours plowing, make less money for a little bit, build the business, not just the way that you sell your time to make money, right? And so one thing my advice would be after a hundred companies, make sure that you're not still selling your time. Make sure that you're actually building the business so it can scale and repeat and really grow long-term, yeah. That's a good piece of advice, Kevin. That's a really good one. That's a trap I've seen some people fall into, but yeah. So we get super caught up in doing the mundane at times.  And then to get to second base, you gotta do something that requires you to do the scaling strategies unless so the same. You can't do the same run in the sense that you did to first base to second base. There's a different strategy to get to second base if you only got to a base hit, you know? And I think the interesting thing, the reality from a psychological perspective, and this goes to that BuzzFeed article I mentioned, the Millennial Burnout one, is we all like doing what we're really good at. And so that comes naturally and easy to us. And so we just fall into like repeating that and building the business in the same way.  Always. To hit that next thing, to hit that next thing, hit that next thing.  And it's a hard position to keep yourself in, day in and day out. It requires a lot of physical health, I believe. Totally. It requires a lot of mental health. It requires a lot of daily processes and routine. And for me, it's a mindset that people can get themselves in versus just a job that they do. Damn, this is super wise advice. I love it. Bro, this is so good. This is so good. There's so many things there. You mentioned that mental and physical health are so crucial in this process. That's why meditation and exercise and eating healthy are super important, doing things like fasting, getting eight hours of sleep. All these crucial, crucial pieces to this puzzle. And then also, you mentioned just being at the brink of what you don't know how to do and constantly pushing at that brink. It's like the most satisfying thing is that deep instinct of being at, because you never wanna be doing things that are too easy and you never wanna be doing things that are so hard that you just keep failing all the time. So you gotta be right at that edge and working at that edge. It's a hugely important piece of advice. And I'm just so obsessed with the fact that you said this. I'm just trying to think of all of the entrepreneurs around the world that are just too focused on what they are super good at within their company, that they're not doing the innovation and research around what they could do next to help their businesses grow. And so I'm gonna take the snow plow analogy and I'm gonna bring it to a tech business now, right? And so I had a founder recently who, he was at 40 hours a week. He just could not get any more. And I said, you have to grow the team. And unfortunately, hiring someone, talking to people, writing out a process doc for whatever it is they're gonna do, right? Again, you have to take hours back from what you were doing to hire and fill that gap and then bring them up to speed. And so for probably a month and a half, two months, three months, you're doing less work than you're used to doing. The business is slowing, but if you can get it done, the effects are you get that time then back and now you've just doubled it, right? And so it could be painful to hire those first few employees and you could become a bottleneck because it's really easy to say, I know how to do it, I've done it 15 times. I'll just do it real quick versus teaching someone else to do it. And you fall in that trap and you could do that for months to a year or two. And reality is you should've just got help a while ago. And so my other advice after a hundred people is make sure you get help.  Looking at myself in the mirror right now and thinking about all the ways that I am gonna be doing this editing for years. And it's so important to find the right people because you can do the training and then they can be gone and then that's a big time investment that you may have lost. So this is all super important. Okay, just some quickies on the way out. Quick questions that we like to ask our guests. What would you say is a core driving principle of yours? A core driving principle. So one of the reasons I came up with that mission statement, help founders improve the lives of a billion people is because I found myself doing all these things. I run Founder Institute, I then started the podcast, interview the mentors, the New York State Innovation Collective as a nonprofit of all the extraordinary incubators in New York. And part of the, I got to the point where I was like, well, I'm doing too much. But I needed to ask myself, does it all align, right? What can I cut that is not part of my life goals, right? And what can I keep? And so the mission statement for me is that, it's my North Star, it's what keeps me going. They all, in my opinion, help founders improve the lives of a billion people, either directly or indirectly. And so that's why those are sort of the core things that I believe in. Yeah. And then if you could rebuild civilization from scratch, how would you design it?  I'm just kidding. But I am fascinated by, Epcot was Disney's vision for a futuristic city. It would be fascinating to get a plot of land and try to rebuild a society. I think that would be an amazing project for the back nine of my life after we make some money here and get some time on our hands to just relax and plan it. But it would be fascinating. I don't know what the answer would be. Obviously, from an emissions perspective, it's gotta be carbon neutral. I think we've seen that, we're just now starting to see things like how to build cities well, right? I think we messed up a lot in the 60s and the 70s. We built these military industrial complexes, right? My university campus is really windy down the main corridor. Turns out that was intentional by design because they wanted to be able to easily gas all the students if there was a riot because everyone was throwing protests in the 50s and 60s. And so these misaligned incentives have created these scenarios that bad design that the Barbican in London. So what we're seeing now is New York City is starting to figure things out. Like in the last five years, they added 1,000 miles of bike lanes, right? That have reduced the number of accidents, the parking protected. We're starting to see people move down the cities. I'm confident in the next 15 or 20 years of human design. The question is gonna be whether or not we can fix the mistakes we've already made. Do you think that we're in a simulation? Cue the red hot chili peppers. I don't know. And how would I ever know, right? Like if we're in the matrix, does it matter? Do I still play the game, right? Like I still wanna win the game. There's no way to unplug from the game. So yeah, I don't know. Keep leveling up. Yeah, keep leveling up and hope to God or whatever it is that when we pass on, there's something better. We'll hack the code, we'll figure it out soon, Kevin. How about last question is, what do you think is the most beautiful thing in the world? Oh, the most beautiful thing in the world. And I think you asked me this before, so I wonder if I'm gonna give a different answer then. Then last time, I don't remember what I said last time. People evolve, yeah. So, let's hear it. Let's hear it, the most beautiful thing in the world. Maybe because you got me in that space, but I'm gonna go with life again. I think it's just a shot at, whether it's a simulation or not, it's a shot at something, at coming up with a mission statement, leaving your impact on the world. One of my favorite things that you talk about is all the people that lived before us, right? And how many people? 100 billion. 100 billion? 100 billion people, right? And someone in this generation probably didn't have built this building, but we're standing on these floors, 14 stories up and we're hanging out and we're existing and living off of subway systems and other generations built. And even though we pay for them, two dollars a ride, all this infrastructure is cumulative.  I mean, it allows us to do that as a society. And so, I would say life is obviously the most beautiful thing. I love it, I love it, Kevin. And super grateful for you and for all the people that have built everything that we have today. And thank you so much for coming onto the show and joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. This has been super fun. Looking forward to the next one and here's to the next 50 years. Yeah, yeah, we got this. I hope we got this civilization, we got this. Everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. We greatly appreciate it. Give us your thoughts in the comments below. We would also like you to check out some of Kevin's links and some of the work. You can check that out in the links below. Again, for founder and student and for ambition today. Also, go and build the future. Everyone, manifest your destiny into the world. Go and execute. We love you so much and keep supporting. Keep supporting great entrepreneurs and great organizations and support us so we can keep doing cool things like coming on site and talking to epic people like Kevin. Much love and we'll see you soon, everyone. Stay curious, everyone. Stay curious.


Hey what's up guys, welcome to Trending Reviews. So this is my XC90, the Volvo R-Design Edition. So I'm going to give you a bit of a driving performance overview to see how it performs when you're actually driving it in different types of drive modes, on the road, if I feel the bumps, what the suspension is like. So let's just get straight into it. Hello, how'd you do? I'm not broken, I'm just split into hope you're fine and got time. Right, so let's go ahead, turn the car on, and let's start making a move. So just to start off, the car itself is a 2-litre diesel. It does have 230bhp, so it's quite powerful, but I'm going to go ahead and give you guys a little bit of a driving performance to see how it looks. So reversing out, now the camera on the rear parking sensor is really high quality. There you can see my Range Rover there as well parked up. So just heading out, it's very smooth. Right, so putting it into drive, nice smooth acceleration. So when I'm driving an automatic car, it doesn't really, you don't expect it to give you any sort of jerking when you're driving. I've driven automatic cars before in the past, where they've just basically on changing gears automatically itself, it does give a little bit of a jerk, but this one seems to be okay, very smooth. On the roads I'm not really feeling any bumps, or anything like that. One thing I really like about this is the fuel efficiency on this car as well. So you get about 45 miles per gallon provided that you're driving on Eco mode. I will be covering a little bit on the different drive modes on this car as well. So I'm just heading out to fill up the fuel, put some more diesel in here, and we'll test out the acceleration. All right guys, so let's check out the different drive modes. So Eco, you'll get the most efficient drive, you will start and stop when you're at traffic light and you let go of the brakes. If you go into comfort, it's going to adjust the suspension accordingly to the terrain of the road, so you'll feel like it's the most smoothest ride of all. So that's the default one that I was using right now. Dynamic gives you a bit more of an acceleration boost, so I will try that out now. Off-road, obviously I won't be taking it off-road today, but you can go onto different terrains, forest roads, go through a little bit of lakes or something like that, and you'll also be going through sand and mud, stones, that kind of stuff. So I will be going now on dynamic mode to see the performance on it, so let's go ahead and do that. So right from the start, I can see once I let go of the brake on dynamic mode, it gave a little bit of a faster push when I was accelerating, so I can imagine how much the pickup would be as well. So 230 brake horsepower, if you go for the T5 petrol version of this car, it goes up to 400 brake horsepower, which is really strong. So I'll take it onto an open road in a second. Now it does 0-60 in about 7.1 seconds. Obviously this isn't the fastest kind of sports car you've seen, but for an SUV, that's pretty good. So I will be going on a 70 mile per hour motorway in a second, so I'll accelerate. Right, let's test the acceleration boost. I'll go faster in about three seconds, keep accelerating, I can really feel the boost. Now I think that boost is a lot faster than my Range Rover currently, so for me that's actually a really good plus point of this car. Now of course if I do put it into sport mode on my Range Rover it would also do a similar thing, but nonetheless it's doing an excellent job. Now that is only from just the dynamic mode on the driving mode on this car, but in the settings on the screen if I turn on sport mode that would give me an even bigger boost of acceleration as well. So I will go ahead and turn that on, and that would allow me to use the shift pedals here behind the steering wheel. So I'm on 30 acceleration. It wasn't the fastest acceleration that I've had on a car, but nonetheless it's had a really good boost, good pickup, and I didn't feel the car was shaking at any point as well, it was stable, it was strong, and I really felt comfortable in the boost as well, so it made you feel a little bit safer when you're accelerating at that speed. You also have other little features like the lane assist where it vibrates the steering wheel a little bit when you're swaying across lanes without indicating. This feature here called cross traffic alert, this is pretty cool as well, so if you're at cross junction the car will detect that there's traffic coming from various different sides, so it gives you a little flashing warning on the windscreen above with red lights, and that will indicate you know just to be careful that there could be cars coming out from various different directions. Distance alert is really good in the sense that it will tell you ahead if there's an obstacle coming and it will tell you to slow down because your speed might not be slow enough to actually stop before you actually hit that object coming ahead of you. Of course the start-stop technology is great, it's in most new cars nowadays so the car will turn off. Now the start-stop I've noticed as well is a lot quicker on this car than my Range Rover Villa, and it's just so smooth you don't really hear it, it's quite silent as well, so that's a really good benefit. So other features on here as well, you have the blind spot assist which basically lights up the side mirrors to see there's an obstacle coming that you might not be able to see in the mirror as well. Speed sign assist, so that gives you warnings of the speed limits on the roads where you're maybe not familiar with. Cornering lights is also good, so obviously this is an SUV, and because of the height of the car, size of the car, you might not be able to see maybe where the pavement cuts off, or if there's an obstacle in the road, maybe there's an animal that's trying to cross.  And so that really covers all of the features on the driving, so from my point of view I think this car is really smooth for me, it's the perfect family car, it's got tons of space, the comfort you get when you're driving, especially on long road trips you go on with kids and so on, I think it's just going to be so much better than maybe having a smaller car which has the same sort of features. So I think the size of this car, the weight of this car plays a lot in its comfortability when you're driving, performance wise it's got really good smooth pickups, going over potholes, speed bumps, I feel it a lot less than actually in my other car. So the vlog that I have, it does detect and you do feel a little bit more on the speed bumps, here you feel a lot less so the suspension is a lot better as well. So that's pretty much it guys, for me I would give this driving experience on the XC90 a strong 9 out of 10, there's a lot of reviews out there online which have said similar things, so for me it's been a great experience, I hope you guys have found that a little bit useful as well, so if you have any questions that you'd like to know then do drop a comment below, otherwise I hope you subscribe, I hope you like the video and I will catch you guys at the next one, take care.


Singer Michael Buble was born in Burnaby, British Columbia but he'd get his start in Vancouver where he performed in front of the Martini drinking crowd at the former Babalu Lounge and nightclub. Since 2011, Michael has been married to Argentinian actor and model Luisana Lupilado, with whom he has three children and this happy family celebrated the majority of their very first Christmases together in the comfort of Buble's former Vancouver-based home. It certainly can't be all that surprising to learn that the man who has a platinum-selling Christmas album, not to mention a series of holiday television specials, loves this time of year. But what makes it most special to Michael is getting to share in the experience with others, as he once explained to Western Living telling them, I've always been very sentimental about it. It was just such an exciting time for us and for all the kids that lived on our street. You could smell it in the air from Halloween on, you knew it was coming. People were acting a little more tenderly with each other and there was something really magical about that. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. In 2007, Michael bought his first home in West Vancouver for 4.5 million dollars and he'd use it for the next decade as his home base, always returning each and every December to be as close to his family as he possibly could, not to mention he would decorate his home in a stunning holiday fashion. Of course, ever since his wife joined him on his journey, Michael's home also served as a gathering space for her Argentinian family as well. Which means traditions often had to be merged. For his Spanish side, Michael would turn his downstairs basement into a nightclub with a disco ball and a DJ. Meanwhile upstairs, he kept things a little bit simpler for his own family who liked to belt out Christmas tunes with a piano, microphone and amp. But no matter what was going on or where, everyone ultimately ended up doing the same thing as Michael explained to Western Living. We drink way too much and eat way too much and we all sing Christmas carols. With all of that going on every holiday season, thank goodness Michael's home boasted five bedrooms, five bathrooms and more than 7,100 square feet because they needed every inch of that space. In terms of the amenities Michael's home included a gourmet kitchen, a home theater, music room and a wine cellar on the property's bottom floor. But the only good look we ever got of the interior of this place comes from a holiday themed photo shoot that Michael participated in a few years ago with the folks over at style at home. That's where we got a taste of the home's elegant black, white and gold palette with the type of sophisticated charm that totally suits Michael's vocal style. For instance, just above the tray table in the home's hallway, hung a piece from Michael's artwork collection, a collage of broken records that was created by his brother-in-law. Michael takes major pride in his art collection, some of which includes a cartoon by Jan Arden and a painting by Tony Bennett. But his favorite piece is a photograph of Chet Baker by William Claxton that hung in a place of honor above the fireplace in his living room. And when it came time to wrap gifts, Michael always personalized them with a band of sheet music secured by a satin bow before nestling the presents in a bowl of ornaments to add a little bit of holiday flair. Then there's the food. With an extended Italian family and an Argentinian wife, you just know we're talking a wide range from traditional turkey and mashed potatoes to risotto and empanadas alongside a whole bunch of sugar coated trees. But it's the little details that always mattered the most. Whether it's white peonies arranged in a dome shape to look like a bowl of white snowballs or black linens paired with gold-toned flatware and gold-edged dishware, it's clear that Michael and his family never spared any expense when it came to getting into the holiday spirit. After celebrating many heartfelt holidays here in 2019, Michael and his family decided to leave their longtime Vancouver home behind. It seems that they were constructing a massive new home in Michael's original hometown of Burnaby. So why don't we head on over there next? In the late 2010s, Michael Buble bought two abandoned properties and turned them into one gigantic house that's so big it reportedly has its very own underground hockey rink. No, seriously. In 2016, Buble let that little tidbit slip next to Kelly Ripa. But that wouldn't be the only time that this house would make the news. During its lengthy period of construction, the nearby neighbors often complained that the fence surrounding the compound was built too high. Fortunately, once the entire process was completed, Michael's new neighbors all appeared to forgive and forget. In fact, if anything, they were happy to have the town's prodigal son back in the fold with one neighbor telling the Vancouver Sun he could have gone anywhere in the world so the fact that he has a home here in Burnaby where he grew up is really great. Outside of bragging about his indoor ice rink, details on Michael's new home are relatively scarce. But what we do know is that the mansion was designed by Michael Green Architecture and is situated across from an elementary school on Government Road. Satellite images also revealed that the property houses, a tennis court, and an in-ground swimming pool. As for the inside, while we've only ever been offered glimpses on social media, but a deep dive turns up a series of clips to give us a taste of how things might look. This includes a living room with a cream colored sofa topped off with black patterned pillows and gray tile floors. Meanwhile, the dining room has been decorated with a rustic wooden table that serves more as a spa for Michael and his kids to goof around than it does an elegant place to gather. They've also got a minimalist themed kitchen with mosaic tiling on the wall and cream colored worktop counters with a central white island. But the most interesting thing about this property is that in the beginning of 2022 it was assessed as the most expensive home in the city and the 36th most expensive home in all of British Columbia, with a value of $23.6 million. For reference, the second most valuable home in Burnaby is only worth $9.1 million. According to BC Assessment, the 100,000 square foot lot the home is situated on is worth $8.3 million dollars alone, while the 7 bedroom 15 bathroom house is worth more than $15 million dollars. And guess what? This isn't even the only home Michael Buble owns in Burnaby. In fact, his other property holds even more sentimental value to him. What better time than the holidays is there to give back? And a couple of years ago, Michael was very much in the giving mood when he decided to remodel his original family home and gift it to the Burnaby resident who cared for his grandfather during his final years. While working for Michael's family over a period of 8 years, Manette would send much of the money that she earned back to the Philippines to provide for her own family that was still living there. This is why it became so important for Michael to do something nice for her. So he recognized Manette's hard work by honoring his grandfather's final wish to give her a home that she could call her own. To do so, Michael enlisted the help of the property brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott to renovate his former home into something a little more modern. Back in the day, Michael used to spend a lot of time in this house, largely because his grandfather meant so much to him. In fact, he'd tell the property brothers on Celebrity IOU. The greatest memories of my life happened here. My grandfather was my best friend growing up. He's my hero. Part of what made this house so special was the fact that Michael's grandfather built it with his own two hands, which is why the singer decided to roll up his sleeves and participate in as much of the renovation as his body would allow. For the most part, the rentals were focused on the entryway, kitchen and living room. One of the highlights of this new modern look was the creation of a slat wall in the central foyer, which now helps to divide the dining room from the rest of the space and provide a bit of privacy. As for the living room, what was once a very ornate parlor full of carpet and fabric now offers sleek edges, a hardwood floor and a fireplace. Then the mountainside windows in the living room were all replaced with more modern energy efficient windows. When it came time to do the kitchen, Michael and the property brothers took an all-white space with tile floors and turned it into something elegant with a giant marble island and a massive built-in cabinet for all of Manette's nicest tableware. What do you guys think? Pretty hard to tell that this was once a 70s era home now, right? The fact that Michael did it all for someone who dedicated so much of her time to caring for his family is just so nice. Such a perfect sentiment to think about around the holidays. In other words, that'll bring this special holiday theme look into the homes of Michael Buble to a close. Thanks for watching today's video and before you head out, answer me this. If you were a world famous singer, would you return to your original family home every holiday or would you be looking to spend it somewhere totally different or somewhere you've never been before? Let me know what you would do with Michael's resources in the comments down below. Otherwise, like, subscribe and turn on your notifications to never miss an episode. My name is Kira the Vampire Slayer. Follow me on Instagram to chat more and I'll see you all in another video. Bye!