Hey there everyone, welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox, and I hope you guys are having an amazing day so far. I know I am, and I've had just a great week so far. Honestly, I spent my entire week creating these projects for this video, but they were really, really fun, so it was honestly fun for me to do. So if you've never heard of TikTok before, it is an application on your phone that you could download, and basically when you go on there, it's a ton of different videos, and they range from comedy to DIY to cooking to just like funny skits, there's dancing, there's lip syncing, there's a whole variety of stuff, but I love exploring the DIY section, and sometimes I come across projects that literally have like five million saves or five million hearts, and to me, that means that people are super interested in them, so I figured why not today recreate some of the most viral TikTok DIY projects to see how they actually turn out, and I'm gonna recreate them for you guys. I ended up coming across four really great DIY projects, and I also kinda wanted to phase out some of the ones that were really random that had like 18 million hearts, and it was literally like painting a tray. I was like, that is so boring. We need complexity, but not nothing too hard. And if you guys happen to be on TikTok too, I do have a couple dance videos. All right, I'm not gonna do that anymore. You can follow me at I'm Drew Scott, I'll put it on the screen if you are curious. Let's jump into the first project. So this first project I came across is by Laura P. Janis, and I'm gonna pop it up right here. Now this particular TikTok only has about 5,000 hearts, however, I have seen many TikToks prior to this doing a similar technique that had millions of hearts, but I just cannot come across them. I've seen them so many times, and I just didn't save them, but however, Laura did an amazing job on her projects, and it inspired me a lot to create a couple of canvases. And I did a set of three because my canvases were on the smaller side. But keep in mind, if you purchased one large canvas from the craft store, and a couple containers have spackled from the dollar store, I actually got mine at Dollar Tree. You can create a really, really unique textured piece of art that looks like thousands of dollars, and it probably cost you under $25. Jumping right into the first project, the great thing about this one is that the tools and supplies are super simple and easy. So I used a couple of canvases I had on hand, some lightweight spackle from Dollar Tree, and then also a spackling spatula. And basically what I did was I scooped out large chunks of the spackle with a spatula, and I just plastered it onto the canvas. And you're gonna wanna press decently hard to really get it to kind of mend with the canvas and become one. And the more you add, the more texture you can get. And basically the texture comes from the excess spackle kind of coming off the sides of the spatula. So I did a total of three just because I felt like one was gonna be a little bit boring. But keep in mind that when you do this project, you can make them as large as you want, and you can also paint on top. This is a great texture base. However, I do think if you're really into that minimal kind of Scandinavian vibe, creating just a tone-on-tone white one like I'm doing here is a great way to add some simple texture to the wall. So I let these dry overnight, and I came up with a little set of three pictures that I love. Our next DIY project is by Bales Wilkie. I probably am butchering that, but this has 1.3 million hearts, and she basically created kind of like a chandelier out of yarn tassels, I guess you could say, and it ended up turning out so cute. I feel like this is a great element to like maybe a baby's room or a young girl's room or like even at a party or something like that. You can use this as kind of like a decor piece. And she mentioned in her caption that it took eight hours, but it was definitely worth it, nine skeins of yarn and six to eight inch gold chains. And she said it cost around $90. However, I feel like I created this for much less. I simply used three embroidery hoops and four skeins of yarn. So I think I spent around $30. I didn't even bother with the chain, but let me share with you guys how I recreated this yarn tassel chandelier. For the yarn chandelier, I actually just had all of these items in my stash already.  Then I cut out a seven inch tall piece of cardboard that I'm gonna kind of use as my template. And this is how we're going to be making the tassels.   This is going to be the very, very top of your tassel.  And next what you're gonna do is lay it on top of another piece of string. And this is going to be kind of creating the top portion of the tassel. You're gonna tie that in a double knot as well. And then snip off the bottom loops to create the actual fringe. And that creates your tassel. So you're gonna repeat the process. I actually ended up creating a new template out of some chipboard as opposed to cardboard just because it was a little bit more sturdy. And you're gonna repeat the process so many times. This is the long part of it for sure. It probably took me about two, maybe three hours to create all of the tassels needed but my roommate actually did end up helping me. We had a fun time creating these tassels which was really nice and good. And we probably created, I would probably say around 50 or so tassels. And keep in mind that I didn't go out and purchase yarn for this project. So I just wanted to use ones I already had in my stash. So I just did a selection of a random kind of neutral tones but if you do want a more cohesive look I would suggest probably sticking with the same yarn for all of them. Then I laid everything out on my table and you can kind of see how I laid my tassels around the rings to make sure I had enough of them. And the next step in the process is to remove the outer part of the embroidery hoop. We're only gonna be using the inside.  So you're gonna go around, double knot it on and then you could trim the excess tails off but this is gonna be another kind of repetitive process of tying all the tassels onto the rings. Once you have everything tied off this is where the challenging part of the project comes in. I thought everything else was really simple, kind of time consuming but easy. This is where the challenging part comes. So I cut off three random pieces of yarn and attached them to three points on the largest loop because we're gonna want to hang this up. So I grabbed all three strings as you could see held it in the air and it looks pretty amazing when you do that. All the tassels hang really nicely and I grabbed my tripod just to hang this off of while I worked on this because what we're gonna have to do is attach our second ring in there and then our third ring in there. So for the second ring, you're gonna do the same thing by tying on three pieces of yarn.  So what I suggest doing is just wrapping your yarn around the outermost ring and doing just like one simple knot, one that you can easily adjust that isn't like a double knot or anything. If you just tie it and loop it around one time, it'll hold it, but then you can go in and double knot it once everything is nice and secure. So then I added in my third section here and the third section was also hard. You have to kind of get in there and attach it to the second section. That way everything kind of cascades down and that finishes this piece off. Now my roommate Marie actually sent me this one and I thought it was such a cool, unique idea. I never thought about using marbles before, but this was by Easy Entire. I'm staying that wrong for sure. Interior. This is a TikTok that they posted and basically they used marbles and some candle holders with some spray paint to recreate almost these like bubble, kind of like Z-Gallery, modern-esque looking candle holders and I thought these were really unique. I'd never seen anything like this before and I love the idea of gluing marbles to something and then spray painting it to almost give it the look of like a bubbly effect if that makes sense. I have a couple of old CB2 candle holders that I was honestly gonna donate and I decided that I was gonna repurpose them into these candle holders and I loved what they turned out. So let me share with you how I did these ones. Another super simple project that is also very striking, we're gonna be using some marbles and these CB2 candle holders I've had for like a year or so just in my stash. I've never ended up using them so I was like, I'm going to repurpose them.  So I followed the girl's tutorial and just glued the marbles down using my Gorilla hot glue sticks, which you guys know I love, not sponsored in any way at all, they just really work great for every single surface. So I glued down a ton of marbles to kind of create this bubble effect and this just reminds me of something you would see maybe like at an art gallery. If you're really into like an art deco look or like a Z-Gallery kind of glam vibe, I feel like this is perfect for you. So I went around and I glued a ton of marbles on just very randomly. There's no rhyme or reason to this at all. I just wanted to build up some form of kind of artistic form and I did it on the second one as well. You could do as many as you like and I'm sure you could probably find some great candle bases from like the dollar store or something like that. And then I used my new favorite gold spray paint. I've never used this before. Look how stunning this is. I'm gonna try to link it for you guys below if they have it on Amazon. I got mine at Lowe's and it looks incredible. So I gave this a nice couple coats of the gold spray paint to make sure everything looked like it was one solidified kind of welded together piece. And in the end, it looked absolutely incredible. You're gonna wanna let it dry in between coats and flip it around to hit every single nook and cranny. And once this is fully dry, you have a new set of candle holders. I guess I never could've seen it. If no one was waiting for your call, but I don't know you don't wanna be a call. And finally, last but not least, this is a project I feel like a lot of you guys have been waiting for. If you are an avid tiktoker, you would know that the foam mirrors right now or the cloud mirrors are super, super popular. Everyone is in posting them. Now I personally didn't find like a huge love for them at first. I was like, this looks so strange. Like it doesn't look amazing. It honestly literally looks like you took spray foam and sprayed it on a mirror. It looks like insulation or something. So Vienna Sky posted this video here and it really got me intrigued. I love the way that she painted her. So I was like, I'm gonna go ahead and paint mine as well. So I picked up some of the spray foam that you need on Amazon, which I'll link it below for you guys. And then my friend James just recently moved to a new house and he had an old mirror that kind of broke in the process of moving. The actual frame of the mirror broke off of it. So he was gonna donate it or give it away to I believe someone that was working at his house. But I was like, I need that for my project. So I kept the mirror, got the spray foam, some spray paint, and we are gonna be creating a cloud mirror today. So let's get into that project. Wow, am I excited about this project? This is the mirror-based James Let Me Have. It's a three-foot circle and as you could see the actual rim on it or like the frame of the mirror broke off. So it's just a plain mirror at the moment. And what I did was I laid down a drop cloth because the foam that we're using, which is this stuff by Great Stuff, big gap filler. I found this on Amazon as well. Link this below for you guys. Give it a good shaking. You need to shake this up for probably a minute, it says on the can. And then I used a little bit of sandpaper to rough up the edges. And the reason I did this was because a lot of the tutorials I saw, people added this on top of a framed mirror already. So it kind of had something to grip to. But I realized that this gap filler didn't have really anything to grip to on the mirror. So I wanted to scratch up the surface just a bit so it can kind of settle in the scratches. So how you're going to do this is you're going to attach the little nozzle on the top. And I just did a zigzag pattern as the girl did in her TikTok video. Her TikTok will be linked below if you guys want to check that out. But I just did a zigzag back and forth pattern and keep in mind this is going to expand double the size as it currently is. So I didn't want to add a ton at first because I wasn't sure how large it was going to get. Like what if it expanded 38 times the size and like filled my living room? Who knows? So I was like, I'm just going to do a little bit, let it kind of expand it. If I want to add more, I could do so. So it started expanding and this is kind of like what it looked like as it was expanding. And then this was when it was fully dry and such a cool texture, but the yellow color is just not my favorite. I'm not a fan of how yellow this is. So I added a couple pieces of just like scratch paper all around the entire edge. And then I use this color called matte clam shell. And I found this at Lowe's as well. I'll link it below for you guys. This color just neutralized that yellow so much and turned it into like such a pretty soft kind of topi beige color, which I love. This was such a great color to add on top of here. And you're going to want to let it dry between coats. And I added a total of three full coats just to make sure I hit every single part of the mirror. But keep in mind, you could spray this black, you could do it white, you could do a color if you wanted to. I love, love, love the way that this mirror turned out. And I just pulled off all of my little masking papers and tape pieces. And that finishes off your brand new foam cloud here. Guys, those were my DIY projects for you today. I hope that you enjoyed this recreating viral TikTok DIY projects video. I love TikTok, I'm on there every single day. So I figured why not take my love for TikTok and recreate some projects that were also really cute and share them with you guys. So if you liked this video, definitely give it a thumbs up. I would love to know if you guys would like more of these. And if you have seen any other projects on TikTok you would like to see me create on my channel, definitely send me the link over on Instagram DM and I could probably make that happen for you guys.  So if you're not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel for brand new home decor and DIY content every single week and click that little bell icon next to the subscribe button. That way you are notified every time I upload a brand new video. Don't forget to follow me over on Instagram, LoneFoxHome. I'll let you guys go now. Enough selfless, shameless, whatever the word is, promotion. I'll catch you in my next one. Bye guys.


I like Ricky There's somebody actually named themselves Jay Jedis Yo, you actually named yourself Jay Jedis God Yeah, I'm just gonna name myself that man's name. I'm just gonna take it. He's I love him so much I did this when I was like 14 15. I did it when I was 14 15.  Yeah, I can't get an out breaking route to save my life anymore Don't I really cannot find like an out breaking route that's gonna work Honestly, I just just got to just hold my water and throw the post for touchdown every play It's like no way this is good. You have outside apprentice all over the place You want the post route nice still might be poggers Yeah, let's let's run toss against seven DB's. That's the way to go. I thought I don't gotta run cover four I can't run cover four for over. I feel like it's tough to go shade up here because you're gonna give up so many yards on Like a drag or something they're gonna go from the nine If you go cover four or five yard zones probably might be tough I wish you go ten yard zones is pretty much shade up I watched the video about cover threes and why they work and Wanted to try him. I mean he he paused to put two tight ends in so he's got Casper in the slot and They get so he might just run just put three streets. Nice Such a bad guy that we block just block dude. Come on does of course the defensive linemen will just always come free, huh? Oh Defense event. I just can't block a defensive end. I mean, I can obviously max protect boys.  That was actually top tier blocking All right, Debbie come on put it together put it together inside shade inside shade inside shade three inside shades Let's just let it. Let's just let this guy go one-on-one. You block him. I think we'll be good, huh?  How are defensive ends walking in my backfield free? What can I do? Let me ID. Let me just ID left. I just don't want my running back to put like this Sometimes like sometimes ID lets the running back get them and sometimes ID lets the line It just doesn't I think it's just different for every defense man. It's a beautiful release there fits Nicely done, baby Good good work. All right. Now we learned ID the guy on the left and block the running back All right, it took us two drives to just catch our breath and realize that All right, but it just makes no sense Yeah, if it's just dominated the press like Fitz got pressed and then once like the press animation got done He just took off I just don't want to be because the dns are like the fastest pressure if you let a dn come free Oh, you're in trouble. Oh my god. It's no way. Oh My god, man, if I don't click on he probably knocks it out with medium knockout What's my opinion on Madden head-to-head me quit? Come on dog. That was a good play Sometimes under center is harder to scream it under center.  No, we gotta trust Casper here boys like we just have to Nice catch kid. I'll try to get a quick one play touchdown. Hopefully here. Hopefully presses Of course that guy just came free again the guy I did just came free again. Let's come on That's what I mean like how does it make it make sense to me boys somebody make it make sense, please fits Works on the umbump love to see Fitz got us two free touchdowns love to see it right boys sometimes they do they patched them some moon They used to be automatic you press you give up a touchdown now They passed them like 10% of the time. Oh my god. You would do that over his head Sack baby. It's a big team Big boys my man hurts Game two with the new team together to game two. It's not like they got reps and you know game to People like he was just getting a little out route to beat like to do like this and they would bump into each other Oh, he just did that Oh, he's noise. I swear. This is cover three. I'm not tripping on his linemen so much different There we go, there's the glitch just ID for what reason why do we ID chat? Why why like that's what I mean like stop letting this DM come free and we're good The defense is not good.  Let's go, baby I just don't want the defensive end to come free if you what I'm I'd rather to detackle come free than defensive end It makes no sense my left tackle needs to block the defensive end now If I slide left then the other end is gonna come free. It's like it's for me. It's like making no sense boys You know I Want my tackles to block the defensive ends. That's what I want to happen boys That's what how do I get that to happen? I can't but I can't how many scrambles I give like up the middle I'm really not like I was there. He's just high ball. It was high as like we gotta knock the ball out like They just it was just three high balls three three face throws down the field like I'm not I don't want to slide I really don't but I'm gonna slide left and ID right from here on out boys. Oh, he switched it up. Thank God Like like right tap dude the blocking is like actual That was good defense though.  I can't lie. Oh my god That dude just got and he got the ball back. Oh my I've never had players be able to run up the middle I feel so much. How are I just get that ball back boys? Good game, dude. Yeah, just just close your eyes and chuck man.  That's more your speed. I need to start dude I need to look at my close my eyes and chuck down, bro.  That was low key almost a daddy Let's get out of here. Put it up defense. There's no way my left tackle gets to this defensive end the block I'm just gonna get blown up for loss of two No, he didn't yeah Super Bowl Champions love to see it boys. We need a competitor. Yeah needs a competitor. Yeah needs to compare I mean that's good comps. Yeah, it does indeed need a competitor. My boy's going crazy on the Super Bowl Let's go man. Okay. Hey Rod


Live from San Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering QuickBooks Connect 2016, sponsored by Intuit QuickBooks. Now, here are your hosts, Jeff Frick and John Walls. Well, welcome back to San Jose here at the Commission Center as here on theCUBE, the SiliconANGLE TV flagship broadcast outlet. We bring you continuing coverage of QuickBooks Connect 2016. I'm John Walls, along with Jeff Frick and we're joined now by Vinay Pai, who heads up the developers group at Intuit and Vinay. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate the time here. Good to see you. Yeah, great to be here. Hope you guys are having a great QuickBooks Connect. We are actually, as a matter of fact, and I was going to ask you the same thing. How was it?  You met with some 400 developers. Great energy here today. We've got 5,000 attendees. So what's your take on what you're seeing and what you're feeling? I mean, great question. We're seeing a lot of innovation from our developers. The buzz is great around here. So every year, QuickBooks Connect has grown in terms of attendees, but also in terms of what our developers are bringing to customers. So today, we have 1,200 apps that integrate with QuickBooks. 400 of those are in the App Store. And in fact, just from this conference alone, we've actually crossed over to like 433 apps. So we're seeing great growth in innovation and also developers bringing products to market. Well, let's talk a little bit about your group and how it collaborates or integrates with the small business group. So what's that relationship all about and how are you complimenting what they're doing? Yes, great question. So I've been at Intuit seven years, part of that time on the engineering side, helping to build QuickBooks and our platform. But now I lead our developer business. So what we're doing is creating an ecosystem around QuickBooks. You know, there are things that we're going to deliver like accounting, payroll, payments. These are broad horizontal capabilities. Now, we would love to do everything, but the reality is we don't have the people or the expertise and that's where developers come in. We see a lot of innovation happening everywhere, both on small startups as well as we announced some great partnerships like Google. So we're seeing ways to, you know, bring this innovation to our customers and deliver it through the QuickBooks ecosystem. So where's some of the sweet spots for the third party developers, is it? Or geographic localization? Is it really esoteric verticals, really esoteric functionality? Where do you see some of the more interesting things maybe we wouldn't think about from the ecosystem? Yeah, so we live in a global society today. In fact, QuickBooks itself is a global offering. It's in a hundred countries that supports 12 languages and 40 currencies. Now, we don't have all our same capabilities outside of the US. In the US, we have accounting, payroll, payments, but we don't have payroll and payments in other countries. For example, in Australia, we partner with KeyPay. They're very small SaaS startup. They deliver our payroll solution. We have a big partnership with PayPal to do invoice-based payments in Australia and we'll announce a strategic partnership with them where they're going to deliver in UK, also in France. Now, there are some broad geographic capabilities but there are also some verticals. So when you think of e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, these are capabilities we're not going to build but you have Shopify, you have big commerce, you've got companies like Square with Point of Sale that we're already partnering with. So the other thing, we go to a lot of tech conferences and everyone wants a developer, right? It's the age of the developer. Everybody's competing for the developer. Why should a developer invest their time, resources, with your platform versus everybody else who's trying to get their attention? It is a great time to be an engineer and it's a great time to be a developer and I say that somewhat selfishly because I'm an engineer. No, so there's a lot competing for your attention but what we have today is really the platform of choice and the biggest platform for our small businesses and for our developers. We've had a million and a half small businesses that are growing 40% a year. We've also had 150,000 accountants working with these small businesses. So when you're a developer building an accounting app or payroll payment, something in finance, time tracking, bill payment, this is the best platform to publish your app and get the most customers. And we have our app developers published in various different app stores. We're happy for them to be on iPhone or Android but we actually feel like this is the best way they can grow their business. Yeah, we hear so much these days about the cloud, right? And people migrating their services over to the cloud. In terms of small business, now what are you seeing in that kind of adoption or that kind of migration, if you will, and then how are you trying to facilitate that or what can you do to enable that if you find it to be a good solid move for these small businesses to consider? Now, over the last seven years, I've seen a massive shift in demographics. Seven years ago, people didn't trust the cloud and mostly use the desktop. But even in the last year, we've seen this massive adoption of the cloud. We did a survey just a few months ago. We found that nearly two thirds of small businesses already use the cloud today and they're also using third-party apps. And these aren't apps like email, you know, Word, browsers, these are hardcore apps in time tracking and bill payment and retail. And so what we've seen are small businesses themselves are really consumer internet users. They're using Twitter, they're using Facebook. They're already connecting to their bank and the cloud. So this is the natural way for them to run their business. It's a great time to be a SaaS developer who's got an app that can integrate with our platform. Yeah, it's just amazing how with SaaS and more and more the applications really being delivered via SaaS. Now, for that individual person, that small business person who's running their own shop, they can get all the power of the thousands of engineers working into it. The many more thousands of engineers working in the third-party developed ecosystem delivered to their mobile device, their desktop, wherever they are in the world. Totally different ballgame then. I got to be sitting at the computer where I happen to load the CD. And what a huge enabler that is to deliver more functionality quicker wherever the customer wants it. And Jeff, that's exactly right. You know, from a customer's point of view, we've seen that they want all the apps to run their business. Some of those are going to come from Intuit. Some of them are going to come from a third-party. Customers don't actually care who develops it. They want high-quality apps. They want a consistent end-to-end experience and they want that integration. And so that's the thing that we're delivering to our developers. We announced a new plugin capability where if you've got a third-party app, you can make your user interface drop right into QuickBooks. You can embed into our workflow. You can change our navigation. You can even put buttons on our forms. All in service to delivering a great experience for our customers. So give me an example of that. We'll be a real-world example of, for me as a small business owner, why that would be advantageous for me. Yeah, so for example, we find that 23% of our base write a lot of checks, you know? So, do you guys like writing checks? Not one a month. All right, exactly. It's not a fun process, but we have some businesses that are writing 20, 30 checks a day. You know, hundreds of checks a month. And what we found are they're spending a lot of time writing checks where a convenient bill payment solution would really benefit them. And that's what bill.com delivers. They're a SaaS startup. They're here based in Palo Alto. They're 130 people growing like crazy. They have one of our top-rated apps, from accountants as well as customers. And what we've done working with them is found a way to drop their app directly into QuickBooks to provide that bill payment capability. So it's going to save our customers dozens of hours a week. You know, hundreds and hours a year. And that's money. That's time they can invest back into the things they like, like actually doing their business. So, giving them a great ecosystem and a lot of customers go after his nights, but you guys wanted to sweeten the pot and have some fun here at the show. So you've got something called the app showdown. I wonder if you can give us kind of, what's going on with the app showdown here at the show. And Jeff, this goes back to the question you talked about earlier on innovation. You know, Ed and Tewit, we do a lot of innovation in-house, but there's a lot of innovation happening outside our four walls with large partners as well as SaaS startups. I mean, here we've got 400 companies showing all the stuff they're delivering. Now, there's a whole branch of like new to the market, like new to the world companies. And so we created with the small business app showdown. If you publish an app between January and August, we want you to come and pitch. So we had like almost 70 apps. Were they all new? None of them existed before January? Exactly. They had to be published in our app store between January and August. And so we saw some really early startups. We also saw some like, you know, not mid-stage startups delivering a new app. We narrowed that down to 10 finalists. And I saw them yesterday. They all had lightning two minute pitches to a really top-notch judging panel. We'll find out who the winner is. I don't even know. But the winner actually gets $100,000 to invest back into their business. And this is awesome capital for these startups. And all that is part of your kind of your seeding of the ecosystem too, right? And trying to be more inclusive and to bring some new blood in, to bring new perspective. Because I would assume in that space, that's vital. You want to be attracted to, or attractive to developers who might otherwise not be thinking about small business, but somebody else might have a better mousetrap and you want them to deliver that to you. And John is right. It's exactly about maintaining that edge on innovation. So even before the small business app showed up, we did a hackathon on Saturday and Sunday, 24 hours. We had like 130 developers here, 30 different teams.  So we had Google here with API.ai, Postman, Square, a new startup called Gibo. They have this little robot you can program. And so what we told our hackathon teams are just solve problems either for small business or non-profits. And that was like the open space. I saw teams using APIs from all of these companies. They were doing assistance. They were doing voice recognition. They were doing chat. They actually used a robot for a point of sale cashier. And that's amazing innovation that you're going to see start to appear in the ecosystem in the coming months. So what kind of listening do you do with your community? So the people you're serving? It seems as though that's a thread that we've heard throughout the company about getting that kind of feedback and being able to quickly deploy new ideas and then altering them. So what work do you do specifically to listen to those you're serving and also prospective developers to find out just what is it we're trying to solve and who's going to try and solve it? So if you go back to the origins of Intuit, we talk about ourselves as a 30-year-old startup, but back when Scott Cook was running Intuit and he's still very active today, one of the things we have is called Follow Me Homes. So we'll watch our customers. We'll actually learn from them and see their pain points and then put that back into the product. Another thing we use is Net Promoter. We'll actually do surveys and ask customers like from the promoter to the detractors, ask them for open-ended feedback. So we use all of those analytics from the Net Promoter. I meet with hundreds of developers a year, not just at the show, but we'll go meet with partners. I have a team in London, in Paris, and in Sydney. And so I've gone there and we're developers, so we do drink-ups. So over a beer, you can find lots of real feedback about and I'll ask open-ended questions like how's the platform working for you? What's working well? What's missing? So a combination of qualitative and quantitative feedback is how we actually make the platform better. I'd say a drink-up is very qualitative. I think there's no question about it. I wasn't arguing. It's very qualitative. But Scott's mentioned before that the real benefit of the Follow Me Home versus Surveys, you really learn something that the people would never necessarily report or things that they don't even know that they're necessarily doing. And he talked about the early days of Quickbook. Just, you know, it can't have instructions, which is very revolutionary back then.  So to actually sit and watch people engage with the application and see how they actually do it, not what they report that they do. Probably get very different information.  Where are you getting stuck? I'm an engineer by background. You know, I used to write code. I've led engineering teams and now on the business side, like this is my space. I really know what these guys are feeling. I've walked in their shoes. So for me, there's a certain energy and wanting, you know, with my team, how do we actually solve these problems and deliver a better experience for them? Because ultimately they're going to make better products for our customers. You mentioned some of these statistics about the global reach of the operation. So when you're developing now such a diverse audience is that. United States users, Australian, Middle Eastern, Central, Europe, Eastern, whatever. I mean, how do you take into a factor and account the different uses, the different behaviors? Because I assume that commerce is different in other parts of the world than it is here in the United States. And regulations use. And you've got regulatory considerations, right? Compliance issues, security issues. So multiple factors, right? I mean, how complicated does that make your job? So the complexity in a way is actually kind of fun. So when we took QuickBooks, we took it global five years ago and we first took it to Commonwealth countries. So Canada, Australia, UK, and they have very similar practices. What we found, and then we also added India as an emerging market, what we found are, you know, accounting jobs are very similar worldwide. You know, accounting standards were actually developed in Venice in the 1700s. So double entry accounting was developed outside of the US and it's global and it's here. So we created an environment where we can support different accounting regulations. Then we added language support and we added currency support. We got to France, found that things were a little different, you know. We went to continental Europe. We've known that for a long time. It's all great. I lived in Paris for three years. I love it, you know. And then now we have a global product along the way we built a global platform. So we're supporting developers in all of those countries. Pretty amazing. What is the reach, obviously, and then the way that you've really ingrained in your practice in the developers group, which is still new to you, right?  A year. Yeah. You're still the new kid on the block today. New in terms of in-to at times, yes. Yeah, where are you going with this, you think, two, three years down the road as we wrap up here just some final thoughts about some things that you see on the horizon that you'd like to bring in to put maybe your personal brand on what the developers group is all about. So we're starting to talk about three themes. It's really around building high-quality applications, focusing on the end-to-end experience from a customer's point of view. But on the in-to-it developer group, we are committed to helping developers grow their business. And if there's one thing that, you know, me and my team are really committed to, is we want developers to get new customers to make money and find ways that, you know, they can actually see the platform as an opportunity to really grow their business significantly. So we've announced two integrations with build.com and T-Sheets. We're going to scale that up, but like fast forward a year. I'd like to come back to you guys with 20 new partners we brought into the ecosystem. All right, well, we'll see you a year from now. We'll see how that goes. We'll come back in 2017, check in with you then, but I'm sure success is right around the corner for you. Sounds great. And thanks for being with us. Yeah, thanks, great conversation. Enjoy the rest of the show. Well, thank you very much. It's been wonderful so far. It really has. Vinay Pai from Intuit. Back with more here from QuickBooks Connect 2016 in San Jose on theCUBE.


Welcome to the World Radio Communication Conference 2023, WRC 23 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio by Tarek Mohamed, who is a youth fellow for the Caribbean Telecommunications Union. Tarek, welcome to the studio. Thank you for having me. Excellent. Now, tell me a little bit about your presence here at the ITU WRC. This is your first World Radio Communication Conference, but I believe you're involved with the Caribbean Telecommunication Union, but you're also involved with ITU. So tell us a little bit about your position here. Thank you. So as you said, this is my first WRC. I've had the pleasure of joining the CTU's delegation this year as one of their fellows, which was one of the thrusts in the Caribbean, a recent thrust to involve more youth in all spheres of development, both technical as well as non-technical. This fellowship was made possible by one of the CTU's member states, the telecoms authority of China and Tobago, who with the CTU have been working to have youth involved. So over the past few years, we've been working with the CTU. The CTU has been working with youth in the sphere of internet governance, and they're also bringing along a new network of youth in ICT, both technical as well as non-technical, all coming together to develop the next generation of policy makers, regulators, engineers. So this is, as I said, my first WRC, a lot of new experiences in terms of witnessing the processes, the ITU and UN processes for getting drafting groups done, working groups done, moving items in and up the agenda, getting agenda items sorted out, more particularly the agenda items of interest in the Caribbean, which are a few which we have consensus on, such as on matters such as IMT, which is a gender item 1.2, future agenda items for the next WRC, GMDSS, radio haps as well, which is 1.4. So learning all of these acronyms while here navigating has really been an experience that without this fellowship, I would have never been able to truly experience for myself. So I'm very grateful for being here. That's a long haul. I mean, this is a sort of four weeks of very important topics which are going to set the future in terms of radio communication. Had you had any kind of inkling of how in-depth it would be? I am familiar with the radio regulations through my work. So I'm an ITU consultant on a regional Caribbean project with the Caribbean telecommunications as well as the telecoms authority of China and Tobago as partners. And one of the key documents for which we reference is always the radio regulations, the issue of 2020, which came out of WRC 19. So I'm quite familiar with the regulations as well as their various appendices. But what is very interesting to me was specifically that the agenda items for next WRC, which is four years away, set today in these four weeks that we're here now. So the overall process is a bit new to me, but I am generally familiar with the end goal and the end products of the WRC. And having been here, what do you think you will take back with you? What will be the takeaways from this conference for you? I know that we're not quite at the end, but we're getting pretty close. I think that's a very loaded question because there's so many things that can come out of this one experience. Firstly, as a youth who, you know, this is my first WRC, I'm thinking, how do I go back and share with my peers all of the experiences, all of the knowledge that I've gained? How do I disseminate that not just to my peers alone, but to the other youth in the Caribbean that I'm involved in through other youth's networking activities? How does this feed into what we as a Caribbean should be moving to focus on next? And how can we, being CTU, work with all of its member states to harmonise the region and take what outputs, outcomes and impacts that are made here at this WRC and feed that into the next WRC and beyond? Well, Tarek, thank you so much for sharing your insights of this from your perspective and I'm sure we'll catch up with you again in the next one. Thank you for having me. And if you've enjoyed this interview, then do check out our other interviews on our YouTube channel as well as our podcast on our podcast channels and for further information, visit our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.


I'm Joshua Cooper. Welcome to Aloha Sustainability in Hawaii and Peace in our Pacific, the UN SDG movement in Moana, New York. Today we're looking at ending poverty and empowering people, looking at Hawaii's approaches to ensure abundance. We're fortunate to have two amazing advocates who spend their lives making sure that this global goal number one can be achieved here in Hawaii. Aloha and welcome to Ending Poverty and Empowering People, Hawaii's approaches to ensure abundance. Aina Mamona, looking at UN Global Goal Number One. We're two amazing advocates and I'd like to welcome you both to coming to the show. Blanche, could you start off sharing the vision and what inspired you to begin your work to really end poverty here in Hawaii? Aloha, my name is Blanche McMillan. How I've been very loving and caring about what I'm doing today is because of my family, my mother and father. They were very strong people that took care of people besides me. When I was six years old, I always would watch them, bringing in people, feeding them, dressing them, giving them showers. And I say one day I would become that and about days, a month, years went by, then I started to work for the Catholic Church for 15 years as an outreach program coordinator. And so that's what I did. I kept on going and said one day I would be taking care of those, the homeless and the on the internet. And that's what I did today. So when the COVID started, that's the first thing I did was to bring home the people. And actually the land that I have here today, it is a deal in our land. It was supposed to be an agriculture land, but today it is both housing and agriculture.  And this place where we have them is supposed to be in the hospice, but it's not a hospice, it's their own home. They want to be home with the belong on the island. So today we have, we continue to work together. How I first started it was to love them, to care for them and make them as my own family, as my ohana. So today I still carry that and still work with them in that position. Today we have five leaders, five leaders that run the back when I'm not there. If they have any problems, then they come to me. Today there are, we're growing vegetables. We have a garden, a huge garden. We take care of, we built 43 homes today. And each and every one of them lives in a home. They have a roof over the head, they have food in the stomach, and they have clothing on the body. Each and every one of them that comes to me, whatever, if they come from the beach, I normally dump the clothes and I want them to start a new life. A life that they never had in the, for 25 years, some of them been on the street for 25 years, 15 and 10. So today I make them find themselves today to make their self better. And we are non-drug, we don't have drug, it's a drug-free facility that we have here. And so we continue to do good things besides doing, taking care of the people. I have even worked with the courthouses, the community service. So we do that. Plus I do the ones that people lost was losing their home and their mortgage and the utilities. I have that on the property. And that's exactly what, and the most important thing, the most important thing that I really wanted my people to find was God. So I brought the church in to make them believe in God. So before I spring them in, I always tell them, God gave us seven days, but in the seven days, He gave us one day to serve Him. So that's what I teach them. Today we have all of them going to church, all of them believing back to God again. And actually this whole property that's here today is run by God and the love of the people. We are not run by the city, state, or federal. It is run by my nonprofit 501c3. That's why we were run by. Yes. Mahalo, Blanche. Thank you so much. And you really do weave everything together. Of course, it's rooted in love and kindness and care for one another, and that kuleana for each other, and for our island birth. But then also you link all the issues, first, the right to housing, the right to healthcare, the right to make sure that the only way, of course, we could end poverty and assure abundance, yes, by really bringing aloha into action. And so we really thank you for sharing your example. I'll move over to the Lima now. Lima, what inspired you in your important work? What inspired me? I think what happened for me was that after 9-11, basically I lost the footing under me with my corporate job that I had for 15 years, and I was about 35. And then I had to reinvent myself. And one of my girlfriend said, you can do it. And I said, well, where's the manual? And she said, there is no manual. You make your own manual. And that was really scary for me as a person who was brought up as an employee. So starting all over again and designing my own life plan was really empowering. And that's what we bring to Kekula Nui o Waimanalo and all of our programs is that we need to be independent and free and be able to teach our young people how to do the same. So we want to focus on entrepreneurship, business ownership, youth leadership, and succession planning. That has always been the goal for us at Kekula Nui o Waimanalo. And currently we focus on aquaponics, hui hua mo, which is a backyard chicken husbandry. And with the price of eggs, it's a gold. It's gold. And we also have ulu pono mahi aina, which is a agroforestry program growing food in your backyard. So all of those programs are backyard centered. So Malama Aquaponics started in 2009. It has since become a clinical program. It is currently funded by NIH and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Hui hua mo, we're just wrapping up our pilot program, which is currently funded by CASA Foundations, Pelina Fund. And then ulu pono mahi aina just wrapped up. We had previous funding from Kauulu Nani with DLNR, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools, and numerous others. Like Tumahalo, all of our funders. And going forward, we're about to submit a grant called Compass from NIH, which will incorporate all of our programs with youth leadership, as well as entrepreneurship, business ownership, using all of the subject matter experts within our community as kanaka, to be the people that train and teach. And we hope to be funded. We're starting by Manalo and we'll go out throughout the Pai Aina on different islands to cook each community that we are currently engaged with. Mahalo for the question. Mahalo, Lima. And that really sets up a couple of the other aspects. SCG number eight is looking at good business practices, and you're really focusing on entrepreneurship, but also equality, but also equity. And you bring that in the program, then really through your own example that you shared, where you were able to come forward and be able to make an example by figuring out what your passion was, what your skills were, and realizing for everyone, there is no one way that everyone has to find their way. And these 17 global goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals really does provide a framework that we can work with to look at no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being. And I think when we look at your program, plus anti-blanches, it really does combine all of those to ensure dignity for everyone. Anti-blanch, coming back to you, I always enjoy visiting you in Waimanalo and seeing what you're able to do. How were you able to set up homes, then also focus on growing food, and then also even making sure gaining skills to lead towards employment and empowerment. Could you share some of those aspects of some of the work that happens every day there in Waimanalo with your Ohana, and how you've been able to make those gains, and how that's in doing a ripple effect in public policy as well. Today, mostly we have people that loves us, that cares for us, that brings in the materials, and even the gardening materials to grow things. Everything is all giving, and it's all gifted to us by the love, how it's around all of us. And that's what really keeps us going. And so today we have the homes, it's not only, we have military, we have churches, we have 15 different churches that help us build homes, including our people here that helps build the homes too. You see, everybody here that works together and do everything together. And then when the material, I mean, when we have the gardening seeds, machines, and tools, all of us, all 72 of us, goes out into the garden. And I believe when you take in the Aina, the Aina takes care of you. So we have sickly people, we put the people into the garden, we believe that if you put your hands into the Aina, it will heal you from the in and out. So this is what I teach them, because the more strength they get, the more faith they have, they're better. So that's the kind of funding we have. It's all by friends and the love of the people. That's excellent. It really talks about self-determination, but also sustainable development. And really, you can tell us from the host culture to share that skill and more importantly, that love, because too many people are caught up with just commercialization and forgetting the connection to the Aina. And I think your model really shows sustainability, spirituality, but linking all together to know that our relationship with nature has got to be one that's a deep one, one of love and admiration, but also taking care of it and not just meeting once a week or visiting, but living it on a daily basis. Yes. And one more thing I want to say that, you know, Eliwa and I, we stayed together in Wamanalo. We have done a lot for our people, because we care. We're there for them. And we want to make sure that God's country will always be protected by good people in the community. And that's what we always do. And so, you know, and besides that, I've been on some of them been on social media. They had interviewed me about the people here and how we do it. So it's good to let people know that what I do, because that way they will.  It's for the people that you care for, that you want to do it. It's for them. So that's why I want to carry on this project into other islands so that we can do better in the Hawaiian islands. Yes. So that we can share. Yeah. It really does bring it up that it's life should be of service and sharing, not just pursuing profit and forgetting really where we're from. And I think that's what's important too is both who are rooted in the community in Wamanalo, which is actually not if you're aware of, but was potentially one of the seats of the United Nations in 1945 when they were deciding where to put the world body. Wamanalo was one of the places I was being promoted. Exactly. You guys are ahead of the game. And so, Elima, maybe you could share with us some of the exciting aspects. And I can say from actually attending your program, I remember going in there and I'm not a great builder. And when you think about that, you're then going to grow your own food.  And why am I, everything that we made just would be such a struggle. But it was so cool that by the end of the first night, you actually had an entire system set up and we could see it getting done. And I think it's that Makaha Nikaike that in the action, that is where the knowledge is. And after the first weekend, you already see one being set up in someone else's home and it shows that anything is possible. So maybe you can share and give a description to folks about what the work that you do and how valuable it is, because it really does focus on ending poverty holistically, but also good health well-being and also growing food as well. Very mahalo. Mahalo just for sharing our vision of how we like to teach Makaha Nikaike with holistic health at the center because health is generational. It's not only about the physical, but it's the spiritual, it's the financial, it's equity, it's all of it that keeps one healthy mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. And that's what we're really focusing on without telling anybody that. And so all of our programs are really centered around the individual's own home. So we teach people skills at the Wamanala Learning Center that we want them to do at home because really, people coming home at midnight because they got to go to work. And so maybe at midnight, they got to feed their chickens or their fish or gather their eggs or what have you on their plants. We have to give people the opportunity to do things that are home-centered, generational. Kupuna keiki, everybody involved together. That has always been the goal. And then also teaching them how to use the things that they grow to make medicine, to cook, to make food, because we all got to eat, but it's a very Kanaka practice to be able to feed each other, to feed the community, and also to perpetuate the way we live. So we're not telling them what we're doing, but really we're just teaching our culture in a manner that fits people's way of living today because we are Americanized and we got to go to work.  They got to punch the time clock and be there for those many hours. And then you only get limited time with your family. So it's opportunity to do things together, to build Ohana, to build community, to build Pilina, and then, you know, to be healthy at the same time. That's the ultimate goal. If we're doing it great, if we're still trying, it's okay too, but we're doing the best we can with the opportunities and the available resources. We only can do so much, but we're trying our best. Maalo. No, it really is a human rights-based approach centered around the individual, but recognizing the collective will and what's possible when we do come together. And as you did share, it's absolutely true by seeing and working with one another. You also have a sense that you said it's around the Ohana, but that everyone becomes Ohana in your training.  And I think that's something that you create this network of people caring for each other who all might have some insights to one aspect to make sure the aquaponics works. Or as you were talking about the other programs as well with the chicken, especially as we see eggs costing more than caviar these days, you're like a visionary that you're actually ahead of the game in that way to make sure that there's no poverty, zero hunger, but that you also talked about, I'll never forget, and we can get into the next part about the health and the traditional medicines that's also being grown as well. So we can look at that as we go into the vision in the future. Blanche, coming back to you and sharing, you were talking at the end that you really wanted to use this model that you created in Waimanalo there on the shores, but then sort of scale it up and go to many islands. How do you see the vision evolving and can you share with us your aspiration of what's possible for Aina-Mamona and what can be done to make sure that everyone is able to have a roof over their head, that they'll be able to know how to grow their own food and have that, especially when so much is still imported even after COVID? Can you share with us that vision of what you've been able to do in Waimanalo and what that can do for the world as well? Well, actually, before Josh got in, I had told him my dream, what I really want if he got in for governor, and I told him I want to walk on every island to go into every community to see where is the homeless are and what can we do, but we need to find good people with good heart, and that's what my vision is, and we will find good people to put homes, what they need to do, what I told governor that we need to have the people on the island to find a land that will hold maybe 100 homeless because I'm pretty sure everywhere. In Oahu today, we have 4,000 homeless right now, but we already did the survey on it, so we don't know on the outside island how much more do we have, so I have put in a request that I'm going to go to Molokai next month, and I'm going to see how many homeless that they have there, and we want to see if there is land five acres, seven acres that we can put homes there, and then we see what they can do, Molokai people, good people. I want good people with good heart that will love their people and will care for their people. That's the kind of dream I have, and I want to make it work and talk, and so that's what I'm doing right now, and then I'll be flying for different islands, looking for areas that we will continue on to take care of the homeless people, yes? No, that's a perfect thing. Thank you. No, no, thank you, and that's really described then in a way, also leads to a Aho Pao vision as well, from Ridge to Reef and seeing that connection with the land and working in the mountains, but also on the ocean, and I know you bring all that to get what you're doing. And besides that, my dream too, you see, before I got this property here, I was supposed to start at the beach area. I wanted to bring back the old Hawaiian tradition, Molokai to Makai. I want our people to become, they take care of the ocean, so they can put a fishing village there, but it's not for the adults, it's for the kekis. The kekis are the ones supposed to be learning how to go fish, bring the fish in, put it in a pond, and feed the village. This is how my dream is, and I want to fulfill that. And then right now I'm working on the aina. The aina is to bring fruits, vegetables, so that we can feed the village. This is exactly how the old Hawaiian used to do, take care of their village, take care of the community, and that's what I want to carry on. And that's why Ilima, what she's doing right now, that is an answer right there. That's a perfect answer, both her and I, that we work together, and then we can do this. Yes. It really is connecting the dots of what existed. If not looking at who we hope we can do it, you know it did exist historically, so as we decarbonize the mind, we also decarbonize the economy, but then create a vision that's more rooted in the values and the voice of the people that has existed in these islands since millennia. Ilima, can you share with us your vision of next steps and how you plan to grow? Because I know you're already on many islands, and I know it's exciting. I know it's exciting when you're like, who can our fish live at this temperature because we're upcountry. You've taken care of so many different aspects of that. Can you maybe share a bit with how we come to a class and then the next steps that they take and then what they then produce and then just a vision of what has happened so far and where you're headed? Sure, thank you. I'd like to say that we just started our new cohort in Waimanalo. I'd like to mahalo the NIH, Olahawai for funding us, and so this time we'll go to Waimanalo first, then we'll go to Hilo and then Maui. I'd also like to say that the Department of Hawaiian Homeland, we have been confirmed and we're just waiting on contract, but we're also going to Molokai, so it might be a good melt of what Antiblanche is trying to do and we're going to be on island anyway, so let's try to do it together, teaching both aspects. Also wanted to feature like the Waimanalo-Li-Mohoi that we started in 2017 has been very successful in the ocean, so again you're talking about Ahupo'a Living Mountain to Ocean. The aquaponics program in Backyard is actually what we do is a mini Ahupo'a for everybody. So next steps is just bringing it all together, really working with the communities in communities such as Hilo or Kona and really getting community leaders to do the same thing what we're doing so that we don't have to travel. We have Lima Cocoa in our different programs that we teach so that every community, that was a dream from way back when that we wanted to go into every Hawaiian community in Homestead. It's a long time coming, it's getting there slowly, but surely we're trying our best, the best we can, but we do need the community leaders, especially the young ones, to step forward and really be the leaders in their own communities because they know the people and it's better rather than getting the outsider like me going into another community, of course we're going to build Pelina and Ohana, but that takes time too, so we're just working slow, slow, slow. It is a slow process, but we're doing what we can and we're just going to hold on more and teach what we can, teach what we know and learn from all the people that's in those communities as well. Mahalo. I notice in both of your programs when participating and visiting is your role of youth, that you really have that beyond seven generations perspective of making sure that next generation will be better off and be able to then really be high tech, but also high touch and not lose that. You really are combining the head, the heart, and the hands all coming together to do positive aspects. As we look in the final moments, Auntie Blanche, what's some final words that you'd like to share as we look at how goal one that calls for an end to poverty in all of this manifestations by 2030, how you're able to serve the people to aspire to see no poverty in Hawaii and sharing how you're as strong women have provided paths to end the poverty, looking at providing housing, food security through these progressive programs? You know, for me, I believe because I love my people, I care for many people, and we work as one big family, and we're always Ohana. Wherever we go, whatever we do, and whatever we touch, it's always love and Ohana. And I want to bring, you know, we can do it. We can solve it. If we just put our mind together and work together, it would be unbelievable because right now, we are already showing the beginning of life today and the way we live and what we can take care of. So that's why I want to make sure that my dream come true before I leave this earth so that we can always continue to be there, even for the KK's. The KK's are going to be the next generation that they can do what we can do because if not, the KK will not be able to handle all the things that we do because there's too many computers, there's too many games in the brains. So today here, my KK's here, I put them in the farm. I make them watch how they bill. That's what I want them to do when time comes, they will be there for others. And this is what I want them to learn today and make sure that we continue to do our job. Thank you. Really great model of listening, learning and then leading. Yelima, your final thoughts. Well, I like what you said about seven generations, but really looking at the next thousand generations and everything you do is always with Aloha. So Mahalo for the opportunity to be here. I look forward to what the future holds. Aloha. Mahalo to you both. Really, the UN Sustainable Development Goals provides 17 global goals to accomplish and actualize the 2030 agenda. And we know UN SDG number one aspires to end poverty. But what I really think is most powerful, the story that both of you shared is eradicating poverty from just around an act of justice that unlocks huge human potential. So thank you both for all that you do. And we look forward to make sure that we create China Mamona and abundance for all. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.