All right. Okay, here we go. Thanks everybody. Oh, I can see your forehead perfectly. This is the, this is a special meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors. We are underway at 503. I'll have the secretary call the roll. Looks like we have a quorum. Okay. Okay. Let's see. President. Director Anaheim. President. Director Shaw. President. Director Gudger. Here. Director Warren. Here. Director Hall. Director Maziarz. And Director Granados. And Director O'Driscoll. Okay. I think I got everybody. If you get director Hall, he was on mute. I saw, I saw a hand go up. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Okay. Let's see where's my. Oops. There it is. Okay. Oral communications. Any person may address the board during its oral communications period. All oral communications must be directed to an item. Not listed on today's consent. Or regular agenda and must be within the jurisdiction of the board. Any hearing none will move on consideration of any late additions to the agenda additions and deletions to the consent or. Regular agendas. And seeing none, we will move. We have the regular agenda item. Number four. We need to have an end caption server. The bid was included with the. Agenda. Becca, do you want to give a quick report on the circumstances? Yeah, we, I mentioned at the last board meeting, we'd be buying another one of these. We need to one for each channel that we do government meetings on because the city meetings are so long and they're on the same day as the last one. We have two channels. We have two, two now, but don't work as well as we'd like or don't do the things we want. And one is expired and we replaced that one with the last one you approved. And the next one will expire in September, but we can, if we want to turn it in now, we can get the two months of that one. We don't have to, we save two months of payments on that lease and they'll be refunded. So we can get the two at the same time, which saves us another installation fee. So in the end, between the installation fee and the two payments, we save about 32 to $3,600. And also we're a little, we'd like to do them both at the same time. Because if we have to change something and reinstall one, we can do it at the same time. But we can get the two months of that one. Victor worries that there'll be some kind of technical Nafu. And it would be better to get these in before we do the big broadcast stuff. So we want to get these in and working. We have, we've asked you to do this quickly because there are no meetings until July, August 10th. So we have time to order it, receive it and install it before the next meeting so we can have both the city and the county working perfectly before we do it. All right. And any questions or comments, board members or entertain a motion. I would move approval. We have a first move, motion by director Manheim. Looks like a second. Okay, a couple of seconds. Director O'Driscoll and director Warren. And I would say, let's have a roll call on this. I think I'll just comment. I think it's a great plan is good opportunity to. Save some money and get this thing going and do it at the same time and get the bugs out early. So. Have a roll call vote. Yes. Director Hall. Director Warren. Yes. Director Gudger. Yes. Director Shaw. Yes. Director Mannheim. I. Director Laurent. Yes. Director O'Driscoll. I'm sorry. I can't see the, the non-video participants on my screen. Sorry. No, that's okay. All right. Well, thanks everybody. Any announcements. Anything else? Just want to thank everybody for making the time to jump on this meeting here. And director O'Driscoll. Can go and enjoy her next meeting. I'll drink to that. And everyone else will see you in a couple of weeks. I guess. Thank you. Bye. Bye everybody. All right. See you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye everybody. All right. See you.


Ii ni Leon Aumsea Nafani maambori kamaani menda Kona exportini ni nini bat fiyu youan through school of YouTube, which is an interesting thing when you also talk about that business. It stems down from the issue of also gender. O takuta wisi mabuizuengi sana koko yo business ni mostly no maga how does it actually appeal to you not even just yourself now your family and people taking you as you know upon someone who loves makeup you know man who loves makeup, looking good and what not, does it actually come with some sort of like when it's not happening? Amo for you, it's just a normal thing. No, for me right now it's a normal thing but when I started it was like an issue kidogo kwa wato, actually was a zongo kwa wana jwe makeup ni ni. Oh, your parents had no ideas. So all kwa wana jwa wana music like wana to ni musici but started doing makeup so many lians ako jipaka kwa uswa aango. Oh you started it on yourself first, right and that's how you loved it now. Yes, no ideas from my face but I was doing kazimba yasana was right. Then I was like ah then from that I just knew the right way to go about it and then. Right I can see there's even a photo at the background. Ah, when was this, what happened here? This was last year actually. Okay, all right and I think this photo was trending somehow, it got shared in several spaces. Yeah, of course. Right, even picked up by a blog. What was happening here? No, actually just here I was just doing a shoot. What inspired me is the jacket I had there. It was light, it was, it was a green. Right. Leminas green and then I saw. Achani fanya kitu. Then I did, then it came to shoot in Kapiga, you got to. Like when I'm bored I just. What some of the comments you got from this. Please, please, please tell us. Actually this, actually I took part of comments, the first makeup I did post with me, myself with makeup, where Niliyambe, where is Shoga, where is Nani, where to talk, where, where. Right. But when you were doing it. That was the first time so it affected me. Mentally as well and emotionally. But how did you survive it? Because you know when you're trending and I believe you're also celebrating some own kind of way because you work with the celebs as well and top stations. How did you survive that part?  It affected me because actually my friend, he could just say, hey bro relax, you see Jali, he's in life too. Now he's turned out too. So, for a week nili kwa nimi katu kwa numba, like during that time, sikwata na ingia online, kwa nimi katu nili kwa nasiangasa, nika zi gani nili jingiza. Alright.  It was like, nika choka asa. It was a point nika choka na yo. But nika roadi sasa nika sama. Let's go back a little bit to yourself. When your parents, you said your parents took you to school to study, like was that cost that your parents wanted you to study before you decided? I was actually supposed to do hospitality. Hospitality? Yeah, because I love cooking a lot. Then I saw like, this is just wastage of time.  Yes, very fast because actually even when I was in high school, I didn't love... But speaking of high school, which high school? So that they know you're here? Yeah, I studied at... this school was called what? Hey, you can't even remember. Oh, okay. My producer says she knows that school as well. Okay. Yes, it was besides... Karatina, right? Yes, Karatina. Oh, is that where you grew up? No, I grew up in Mombasa, and then from Mombasa I went to Ushago and saw me because... From Mombasa to Ushago? What's not happening to you man? You know, hey, I'm from Mombasa. So from Mombasa, I came here, but where was Ushago? I went to Ushago and saw me. To lose a hype. I went to Ushago. So they were getting cases, Kila, Sigu and I said, I want to go to school, I want to go to school, I want to go to work, but I saw me. You see, used to go to businesses. You were hooking stuff. Which one? Mandazis. One. I used to sneak out of school, go buy mandazis, come. Mandazis, come. So you had this entrepreneurial skill as alias, you came to school and it was uncomfortable for you. Yes, Anna. And right now you're making money out of this makeup business. Yes, love. And speaking of school, how did you appear, thank you, your friends who are now in high school, especially, okay, you know how to trend, you know how to blog, you know how to make up, look at that headshot photo behind you. What are they saying? Did they like, you know, move away from you, they work as a man. Who you initialized your life in Ginnatwez and in Naiwa? I was born in Kwa Tu, so I was born in Fanyawewe, that's you, that's you. Actually they wanted to, sasa kujua na mimi, vizuri kus they were like, eh, feel, na duni, eh, squeeze in a kwa na tu kwa, mativi na kwa na tu na trend. Right. Yeah, form ni gani. No, kambia mimi in dokitina kwa na squeeze. So long as it brings food on the table for me. On the table, right? I'll do it. All right. Now speaking of food on the table, Wakati, you did your first gig.  A lot of ladies, the slay ones were actually reaching out. Others, you know, reach out to the male and the female ones as well. How was the feedback from your dad and your mom? Wakati wali ona, wami pakaivi make-up, wana trend, laki nuna in gizapesa. And then wana ona, eh, ntututu kuna ma mwa kwa di kupakadi, ay lanshisha, mika eyebrows, how did they react to this? Actually, my parents are very supportive, right now. Really? Yeah. They're like, we're fanya, you be you. Kwa wana takia, wana takia itoksida. So long as inoksida, we're fanya, kwa raza kwa. All right. So they are good? Yeah, they are good. They are okay right now. They are perfect. Do you send them money? Yes, I do. What about your siblings now? Do you have like a sister or brother? Yes, I have my brother actually. He's also, he's a guy. Okay. Okay, actually, brother is a guy. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure. He's bad at make-up. Oh, he's also a make-up artist as you as well? Yes, he's bad. So it's a business in the family? Actually, for me and my brother, yes. Also two brothers. Yes. No, we are like four brothers. Four brothers, no sister kabsa. A sister mdogo. Oh, the one with the sister. He's one and a half years, two years right now. Oh, wow. She's a... Okay. So you see, mi na bradangu no tumiyamua twingi kwa make-up. All right. And speaking of the make-up industry, how is it, especially the mainstream one? Cause even in your description, you mentioned you have worked with the top stations, you have won several awards as well. You're like the second in Kenya. You mentioned East South Africa. Yeah. Right. It was that time, it was last year. The awards, East African Fashion Awards. Okay. Yeah. So actually, it was a time, nilikwa ni mekoa within among the big fishes make-up artists, it was like, eh, normal. So for me, I used to, like, every day nilikwa, when I wake up, lazimani fanyu make- lazimani fanyu look on my face. Just like a beat, face beat. My face, I walk around town, he na Nairobi CBD. Na make-up. Eh, kutoka, my studio that time was at V-Pak Towers. I used to move from V-Pak Towers to Nation Center. Just walking like this. Just get up and say, eh, angalia, look at this one. Look at that. Evo too. Then from that, I just blew up. So it gave you that confidence as well of being in the business? It gave me that confidence. Yes. But you know, people are giving you weird compliments, others are judging as well. Mimia. How does it make your heart feel? Especially when somebody sends very nasty comments and sometimes like you mentioned, it even affected you at some point mentally in another case.  Yeah, true.  If we tell you ikitu, wunafana ni mbaia maids, if wukonju wa kikutukana wa kwa mbe, whatever was they'll tell you, don't put it in your mind. Let it enter here, to care for it. And speaking of not letting it enter your mind, what was that point that you broke down and you cried? And you cried. And I love the fact that, you know, yesterday on our Monday show, we had a segment, we have a segment called MCM. We host men, it's Mantuk, where we talk about men and the issues in this today we are talking about if a man should cry or not. And one of my co-hosts who is not here today said, you know, if it takes you to go to that moment where you can and then you can dust yourself off and come back, it's still fine, other than even crying in public. Now, let me get back to you again. What was that moment that broke you down ulianda wukalia and then wukarudi na wukandelena bizi? Eh, your time, matter, marambili sayi may happen twice. First time in 2020 and then last this year, 2020, starting of this year. Like four months ago The point I caught was that I was crying. I remember that week, she came to me and she said, she was doing makeup and she was doing her job and she was doing her job and she was doing her job and she was doing her job and she was crying. Wah, wah. I said, if you have a number to your mama, we know who you are. I said, you know who I am. I don't know who's the one texting me. So these are texts, not phone calls? Not texts. Wah. When you try to locate that number, it gets up on and you can't locate that number to you. Are you calling it? Are you calling it? No, it's funny. Funny. Right. Hmm? Eh, four weeks, I was in a house. I was in a house. Actually, left where I was staying went to stay at my auntie's place. Auntie's place, for your safety. Hmm. Wah. I was crying and she was crying and I was crying and she was crying and she was crying. Right. You know? Yeah. Eh, she was crying. She was crying. She was crying. She was crying. She was crying. She was crying. But I was crying. I was crying. I was crying. I was crying. I was crying. I was crying. I was crying.  You're intimidated or just in a piece. Just in a piece. To re-makeup too. Right. To re-makeup. I'm a person who has learned. I have learned. And it has made you a lot of money. I always feel good when I'm doing make-up. You always feel... I always feel... You always feel... I always feel make-up. Aha. Whatever I was stressed about when I was in Asia. In Asia? In Asia. So it's therapy to you. Yeah. I love make-up. Let me. I love doing make-up. And speaking of therapy. Before we get to some of the celebs you've worked with and even the top stations. Would you advocate for people to get up to get into this make-up business? Because it's competitive as well. Yeah. And seeing you who managed to have done make-up to people or to faces like the nano-witties. They can ambe-raise as well. Artists like masterpieces. Would you advocate for man specifically to get into this business? And I love the fact that you have perfected yours to that point that it's just extremely unique on its own way. Would you advocate for men to actually get into this business? Yes. I actually tell one or more inge kwa make-up bana. Okay. It has money. Because make-up it has it has money and make-up is one of the growing industry right now in in Kitambuato kwa na paka make-up. Nowadays like everyone wants to do make-up everyone's touch-ups. Hadini apam kikal So you might be called up for you guys to look amazing. Every day. Yeah sure. Like every girl like nowadays akita kwa na out make-up. And for a guy demakiyona eh Uchali na paka make-up. He'll actually approach you and say I want you to do my make-up. Right. Actually for us men it's an added advantage to us. You feel like it's an added advantage if you do make-up? Yeah. For real? Yeah sure. Because I know of my friends who would be comfortable even to put niver on their face. They'd be like ma na ume ni kukauka kuparara kuna shawa na une enda dakaz but you'd say no let's break the narrative right? Yes. Sqizzi una pigia ata from sqizzi adiwa no mo anafanya skin care routine. Absolutely yeah.   Yeah you look amazing. So you'd advocate for good skin care routine. Yes people should look good. Yeah. Maybe bimple ni kipata bimple kwa usu. Yeah. It's like you know stress depression buyer. You just want perfect, clear skin.  Amazing. Baby boy. Baby boy ma na na usu. Perfect. That confidence is what I did bro. Now there's a good there's a good headshot of I think that is DJ Piera Makenna who was also used to work here at some point. When was this and first of all what is the name of this look as well? Or this is like a glam look yeah? Oh it's called a glam look. Yeah it is glass. This year actually. This is this year. Yeah.  Right. Yeah. So what happens to before you get to this look? For you to get such a look you just need to eyebrows. But for this look it's like for if you need to go out this is not like you cannot go to an office with this look. With this kind of makeup. Yeah it's a glam look maybe a dinner look. Or a party. Yeah a party. Right. Yeah. This is amazing. Also there's different types of makeup. Yeah there's different types. Office kind of makeup. Yeah there's day makeup. There's night makeup. There's bridal makeup. There's media makeup. Or media makeup. Yes. And speaking of media makeup you've also worked with top stations as well. Now I've seen also this is who is this? This is Kate Actress. Oh yes Kate Actress. Yeah. It was her birthday shoot. This was her birthday shoot. Yeah. This look last year. Oh this was last year. And how do these celebrities actually come to you? Do they just call? Yeah. Do they make phone calls? Yeah. Because you have quite a huge following on social media. Yeah they call me on my peak. I'm actually they text me on Instagram. They text me. Actually me I always check on my DMs every day. Every day. Every time every time. Right. Right. And I love that this is so supported. No this year. No this year. Oh this is this year right? Right. Where was this? Was this an event? No yeah actually she was going for an event and she was also doing a content shoot. So yeah for a certain company. Right. So she called me and just went do it. And I can see you have that is lip close or lip balm? Yeah. That is lip balm. Right. It's good to musterize your lips. To musterize your lips man. I'm learning this skill. By the way when you put on maybe a different color shade because then it can change your look as well. Would you walk in town like you cha pa red one and you walk in town? Of course. Why not? Well people will be looking at you and be like they want to follow you others want to beat you.  I'm happy. So long as whatever I'm doing I'm happy. You always told me do whatever makes you happy. Okay.  All right. Right. No that's my brother. No that's my brother now. This is your blood brother. Yeah. Okay. And he did that. So he's done name for this look now? This is a creative look.  Yeah this is a creative look. This is the first time of him doing makeup. And when I used to do makeup when he was in high school he used to tell me feel whatever you're doing a partner. Right. Ni ni yo. Not this. He's the one. He's the one running. Yeah. Niyana Kukimbeza. So I'm just amazed at how you started this thing for yourself and all of a sudden it's picking up and you know your dad by the speaking of dads is your dad supportive in this journey? Because almost dads will be like e mtoto angu kijana na paka makeup wapi? Mbama wako sawa kabi sayani. Right. Sawa mbaka ya akuna akua ga online akua ga like social media kwa zia ni ame ingiam paka aw nione like he wants to see me what I'm doing. Yeah.  He's proud of me. Right. Kushtresi you can see this is Kushtresi. Yeah we used to Kushtresi we've come along we used to work with her at switch and used to work there for a left ear. Okay. So let's do whatever. Is this a TV look now? Media look? No it's not a media look. Aha.  Oh the eyes are more colorful. So we used to we wanted to match her earrings and the eyes. Earrings and the eyes. Yeah. Actually above me. Also there's there's that you know merging of if you have yes. Yes. So above hazard and leap it must merge with the eyes. Yes so like above make up right. You just trying to be creative in your own way. Okay. If you maybe you wearing a certain color of clothing you want to blend it with blend it with make up. Accessories. Yeah. So it must go so you know how to balance the makeup on the face. Yeah it's like also matching clothes. So you want to yellow. Yellow and then she knew kuna red. Yeah. Like let's say okay. So we are going to match. Right. Okay. Like let's say okay. Color blend.  Okay. We are going to pop sun and then Yeah if your eyes are popping you make sure your lips is toned down. Oh it's called toning.  If you have a red lipstick you toned down the eyeshadow. Oh the eyeshadow now. Yeah. See you pack a red kuna pump pack a red. Okay. Takawiyad. Ha. Ha. Takawika. Takawist. Takawist. Right. Yeah. All right and speaking of speaking of toning down if for example somebody wants you to come and do a makeup on them how much are you charging as well like a whole package of it. Yes. For example at weddings, events, media as well. Yeah. So like these there are different kinds of makeup. Yep. Okay. Kuna kuna taka just a minimal makeup. And there is full makeup that include eyelashes. So for full makeup that goes for 4-5. All right. Yeah. For just a simple look that goes for 3-5. All right. Yeah. For bridal makeup that goes for for bride that goes for 10k. Bridal. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Bibi arusi sasa kus luki abibi arusi it's different kabi sae na. Na. Pia bona arusi anafanyu. Hmm. Bona arusi pia na piguwa makeup up or touch ups. Right. Yeah. You need to. I can see this is ambare. No, no, no. This is no ambare. This is no ambare? No. This is who? This is actually it was my shoot. She was Miss Universe. She was, yeah. She was doing. Oh, this is Miss Universe? Yeah. He was he was among the people. Okay. Yeah. That show. So it was I was in a shoot. Okay. And then I just posted it. Right. Naikendangi wa kendang. Naikendi wa kendang. And speaking of Vant who are some of the celebs that you have worked with in the social in the in the entertainment space as well that continue to support you that you'd say how about it to nafanya naokazi? Nimaak nao. Wengi, baka saibadu tu naok naoaw. If they need makeup they just call me. Okay. They just go. Are there a few that are loyal? Yeah, of course. That come very often that you can mention.  Right. The one who did her makeup. Is this the look? No, this is not the look. This was last year's birthday. Oh, okay. Like for her right. Always if I knew her but during but this is Jackie and Appenda this is now last week. The last weeks. Yeah. I can't even tell the difference between the last year and the next. You can from the eyes. None of this is gonna stones on the eyes. Oh, those are stones. Yeah. Like real stones or? No, like stones. This is like the makeup for you being creative. Oh, right. It's like glitter because I see it's glittering. Yeah, come on glitters. Right. Is it glitters? Is it stones? Okay. And I can see the nails is enough for Anakidogona and Sambolapoko dress geni. Yeah, so we are here too. Combination. Yeah, and in here but come up with stress in baka sayu and a kujetuna baka makeup. Right. Yeah. What a difference too. Okay. Now when it comes to even the government the government kuna rules and is regulative in terms of even content and I use it they are saying they will not allow people to act in some certain type of way. Do you feel like ita kwa katoa sportwa ita limit business yako? I don't think so ita nika in a sportwa but ita limit job yako because mostly mufu baka nini neza kwa Okay, wakisa meivo neza kwa kwa kwa kwa jipaka makeup but clients one clients, yeah. They'll need my services because right now in mefkapa in tene I don't need to apply my face makeup so that people know I do makeup. All right. So you used to apply so that people know... Yes I used to market using my face. using your face. Yeah. But now people misunderstood you are conduct some of ita zingini. Right. Actually there was a time this picture this was the time now I was trending because of makeup. Right. So we took this picture Najalas and then where was this? It was at our friend's place in Kilimani. Okay.   You know? Hey. Like you don't focus people's life too much. Yeah. Yeah. Kama ikufresh ikufresh. Okay. Yeah. Now when it comes to the business every business has its competitors Yeah. and every business has its downside and whatnot. In your business who are some of the people that you compete a lot with and if I told do they like you know give you that competition to a point it's giving you a run for your money ready to a point you're like I have to up my game so that I get the latest trend in makeup you look at you know the fashion events kama zilekina met gala utonokunadi TV shows that they review makeup like if they're reviewing a Beyonce look they're going from the shoes to the dress to the pose to even standing itself like it's a whole commercial world about you know makeup and beauty. Now in that aspect in Kenya do you feel like there's enough competition and if yes maybe what are some of the some of the you know places that you get high competition as well. Like for me the people I work with the other makeup artist here in Kenya I don't take them like they are my friends but I always also look up to them like wana fanya nini what are they doing are there ones that you can mention though like Foyna that you compete or Foyna yeah Foyna she's also famous in her own yeah she's actually my friend actually Foyna also sometimes calls me to go teach her students right or she has a college yeah she has a college all right go show them my skills how I go about my makeup your blending yeah also Deniz Karuri he's also my friend so or Deniz Karuri yeah he's also one of the best makeup artists we have in Kenya right yeah I also go to his studio we do one and two yeah and speaking of studio you mentioned you have a studio by name Phil Lodre Phil Do Creations or Phil Do Creations yeah Phil Do Creations is it like a tv studio or a makeup studio no it's a makeup studio yeah Phil Do Creations all right where is it located I don't know it's at USIU okay USIU Road the first it's at that building is called Safari Business Arcade okay yeah Safari Business Arcade all right when you come there just ask for feel right they know you as feel right when you come there just ask for the need makeup kujapo for those people who are around that area yeah just come and you mentioned you you're also a musician so would you say you'll go back to your music thing as well because you know people start off differently kuna mse majata se ma minlianza kama pasta but sequizia mimi in motivation or speak yeah I mean there's even people who started off as rappers and they're now very famous pastors as well so for you you started off as a musician now ok nda kwa kitu kuna pend which is now makeup that put you on the map yeah yeah yeah ok I'm not saying I can never go back to singing but right now it's not like my your priority yeah but I usually I used to sing I used to be a very bad gospel rapper ok ee weh wacha bana na ma bai bovan se si pala kuleka mkuna piga po mystery mkuna lafuna yua nili kuna imbana ila ki accent kia mkuna pali mombasa yama mombasa metokatu mombasa mkuna lafuna kujapa na piga rap mkuna beli tatu ok so after upon do nika ee nika patana na kinkaka ee right therefore but music is good but it needs a lot so for me I saw upon we seek it yung are we pending then I found my your passion my passion and speaking of passion to mention kusu feedback at some point we will say we will break down wukalia do you think in Kenya people just troll wakiyona ki toa like kama ki toa zifanya wana kupatu feedback kenye ita ku break down and how have you managed to actually you know stay afloat emotionally kusu na jwe every day we curious if comments amtu wa nakutukana it gets to your heart and you mentioned you had to take a break adu kakrayadi you had to run for your safety ok me whatever I can say like ok in Kenya watwa nungiaga online they'll talk anything they want to talk ok ya wu amtu maya miyandika whatever miyandika wu komenta miyandika po it will get to a point tu yama amu amtu amtu miyandika yo komenta the negative komenta atataka maybe wafiake ata itaji makeups kumoja one day was a point to itafika ya ata kuwa eh nilungelia wibaku sui makeup sasa na itaji makeup like never talk bad thing about something bad something kusu taku jaku itaji wuna na right so in short the haters the haters continue hating since you guys are the people who is making me to keep keep going ya and speaking of haters you hung out with a lot of some of these celebrities many of them are countless how do your parents actually take take it are they like um to total inga koi biyashara akanza kupigua na maambu astarehe ama they just love the money planti wu kishao to miyapeso miyamazaji and life continues no lewa kusau tu ya ni imagine they they always check up on me kwa adi u kupoa e u kuna ni niliyo nambia miyaya nga liya kama akuna nambia da ni mi fana ni mi tumei na isa tu anga liya kisha ni kona klienta na kam ni kima alzana kus kumia lei kwa na freyanga wana keep up na mi mi lei kwa na juwa kenya na do wana juwa ni kwa api na fana ni and they are protective as well ya, they are okay there's an interview did with president Ali and you clarified some things in there kwa sama kuna arti you no longer work with them anymore maybe because of personal issues some of them you are friends with na sama kuna 1, 2, 3 muli deefa hapana pilot mati ono longer what was actually the main reason as to why maybe u liya chana na some people and you decided kunda keviako na mamboiako actually see okay wana jo kuna punti na fika nga ono na you need to go a bit higher ki dogama you need to go in a different direction wana amua tu achana chana tu na siya tu wana ambia hati ya pana sito ya pana you just move slowly fed away wana chatu kupigia nambia ah siya zi pati kana na nini ya right if you see someone will bring you down na wana sama kwa ni watu was happening behind the scenes so are you guys beefing fighting competition jealousy ama ni zo zoteata na ni you say many life in general too okay life in general too right right and would you say you're better now even in terms of business was kwa na kumbuka time on the COVID-19 pandemic kum all businesses were shaken as well kuna zile kampunizanya wana kwa mandi kwa watu kwa bida wana ambia in the home kuna wana watu adi wa li kwa affected individually kama yours as well I don't know if you affected but I would just like to know maybe if COVID-19 shook you and maybe have you recovered yet ya I used to have a studio up at Kimati house okay then COVID di kwa kudia right li kwa febapu kwa anza eh I like a kukua na hadii studio ika ni kwa funga studio right I had to close down the studio kwa pia na kila kitu sun li kwa na freelance ya then kuka aka ni kwa pata na beshtiangu utu kashkani aka utu kwa funga studio ingina but right now say ni kwa better say ni kwa poor you say you're good the money is coming in ya right now there's job flow say kuna clients there's flowing of clients kuna weddings ya you know job actually during the eh pandemic moka kenda kwa isha okay kuna kwa gana weddings, mingi weddings, mingi clients, rorashio shows ya ni kuna wana butu mingi sa not under kamaikapa right and speaking of that have you employed some people do you have like people who work with you at your place like you say you paid them a salary so like I work I have assistance eh like wherever niki so ni wenda kwa wedding I have a wedding you I cannot go alone so I go with some two people's and also students when you train after a while it's a training kuna watu wo ni ambiya they want to like work with the best students like when you najiwa they are perfect or you wanna train poor right then I refer them and then they get jobs right ya right cause I also realize I was actually chicken online there's there's just somebody who has specialized in eyelashes he's also a guy like kazeketuna eyelashes eh kazeketuna as he is meeting people the the same people you are meeting as well ya true ya it's also another kind of makeup art business ya actually beauty beauty is all rounded there's someone who will just focus on the eyebrows ineku microblade oh it's called microblading ya microblading that means you are like tattooing your eyebrows oh okay for you to still like certain years then right na isha nolia me specify tuna lashes pekiake right ya so for me ni me specify like the beauty beauty backup face bit face bit right ill let you bring out I'm gonna load you up a face bit bro na lisa ma haa pana singi kuja pana face bit leo nata kumniwani natural okay so so there you go nge ni ambi umutagani kuja ni pangapa if you tooki pigashas interview me ni kuapa we're on a je pakatu I wish that would have been possible now speaking of that janas we almost are closing up Jana we had a conversation on our segment I mentioned to you MCM and we were talking about you know a man having support mabuichal doona go through mambu mengi sana ke kuja pali depression ni ni ni and one of the guys said sometimes nivizuri kuana role model as a father figure mania atakusho this is how to be a man this is how you go about with manhood this is how you deal with the relationships and women in your experience as well as a male make up artist do you feel like you know every man needs a man you know kind of figure to actually you know show him that this is how you go about being a man or a boy child as well for me and not really for me no you don't need a father figure no for me no me my father is if in case I need to confirm go something if you need to talk to a man I'll just call my father because apange ni kisema you need to look nataka kuwa ui maybe aniku anani motiviutama all right me maybe I'm doing something different enye atarezi penda all right because me actually watuengu unikritisize inwa na ume oh siwa na hake so your biggest fund fund base are women yeah women so for me for men all right ningumu sana wukuti kusazi elewa kenye mi na fana and would you say that has made you feel resentful some type of way inakfanyani autekieta ku interact na men a lot it's only women no not really I interact with men but siko sana kus yeah kus you feel like kuna wene wataka wukritisize kazi ako ikufanyu kuwa na hape for nothing but wene na juwa we have we have friends we are close they know what I do they always motivate me they always talk to me but ningumu sana upate nikipata na na then you just it's hard for me most of my friends are ladies ladies right because they even love they just want to be friends with you so that you can make a path fund base yungu kukuma dem jobi angu ni ma dhim okazi yeti ni ma dhim like jobi angu nifis yeah like girls doing makeup and speaking of that still on mantas mental health you mentioned bro will it break down we buy a sana o kaliya and since also September is a suicide prevention month it's marked on every 10th of September annually worldwide and it's also a day that talks about you know mental health awareness how can we create spaces then it's a policy a safer environment and as I communicate how they feel they talk authentically about you know the things they are going through and even in your experience you breaking down what to control na kukubuli do you feel like we need a space even for men where they can you know find a place where they can go to share their pain share what they are going through and come out when they are better yeah it's true as for men we also need kuna point in afikaga ununa una jo kifungi aki tu sana kitu inakusumbua and for like wana ume wana kwa ga apana min man ame kama ume nini if you need to cry cry if you need to talk to someone talk to someone you know like in three months this year three months juzi juzi tu unali kwa nimekatu na mabeshtewangu mabuiz na we are somewhere out I told them but there you guys kuna kitu na nusumbua nitu kutu wana bia apana wei wachu ume lewa yu kunyo sana nini ah okay wakasa matunde ho went tukatu kwa bnb tukalala ah tu luku atu tendele na shere tukendele na shere nika wam bia apana siko sana manzea na umbe apana wende ulali so I went to sleep kwa rum niki oni me jike live machu zi kanzakutoka I woke up nika patua make up nuka mbem still not okay I opened the door I went kwa bara bara it took me phone and started going live no I posted guys I'm not okay I just need someone to talk to that's right masimu zi kapigu anini so I switched off my phone kwa zi nil masimu zi tanzaku ingiapa so I went live for IG nika sama guys I'm not okay I was crying like zi ati nalia utu kutaka like na fila oku onu na fila oku sana do you have like a pasta maybe you go to for help pana kwa umbe anini mimi your mom as well my mom always prays for me wei wei very every day prayers of a mother right yeah baya kwa I believe in her prayers kwa kwa as a time I was very sick I was supposed to go for an operation then she just prayed for me and I didn't go kwa kwa sana yo kitu anya nil kwa na sumbo ili kapo tia ikawisha right yeah so the prayers of a mother do work a lot my mom always prays for me and I begin kuna ikutu na kwa sumbo na mimi wei suni umbe yeah sorry I'm told our time is up but just a quick one before you say your social media and where people can find you and where you are accessible at what is the craziest thing you've ever done and you'll say hee ili kwa crazy one craziest thing yeah I don't think that I don't think it's craziest thing I've ever done stop playing self one for real stop playing self okay I don't I don't think it's craziest thing I've ever done all right would you rather die young or live forever young yeah live forever young live forever young okay which other which other which other crazy one would you rather have a mind that actually sees what everyone talks about you especially out of your country or just be numb and never hear anything and keep on going eee now go to dump I will ninge penda kwa ne omai na nanskiyana jwa kila msu kenya na nangelia all right Fafadali ni kufeni kidwa na nangelia mki sema na tiny all right kuli kwa nifkiri eti kupa nasakwa na nifkiri liya ni nisasa okay ah you mentioned Dennis Karrorias your ex it sorry are you still working with him or do you still work with him yeah we we are friends you talk Ya, we talk, we talk.  No. Sawa. And if people want to access you, book you, where can they find you as you exit? You guys can find me at Instagram, Creative Field, just DM me. My number is there, call me. Which is? The number? Number is 0757-006-792. It's on my bio. Just DM me. Okay, that's also your WhatsApp number. Ya, that's also my WhatsApp number. Sawa, thank you so much for coming through field. And we hope to walk with you soon. So please to keep it guessing. Ya, next time. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. That has been Creative Field. You can call him Philip Muriti. That is the real name on his idea, right? Okay, for hanging out with us on Entrepreneurship Tuesday. And I think we'll call it a day. Continue to interact with us on the hashtag why in the morning segment is Entrepreneurship Tuesday. You can also find me at brianza.com101. It's my handle on all social media platforms. Facebook and Twitter as well. Our station's handle is at 2254 channel. www.kbc.co.com. 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As an industrialist vision, we can make representations, we can give data at different forums and they say yes, we can take care, but then you know, somebody has to take the lead from the common side. Why on earth would the government take the lead? Do you pay for their marketing? Do you control television? Are you controlling the media in India today? Are you putting Mr. Narendra Modi on television? Any of you? Why are you under the impression that the government will listen to you? Please, please understand the political reality of what is going on here. 39.5% GDP is controlled by MSME Centre.  Let me ask you, let's discuss the structure of the BJP and let me ask you some simple questions.  They have issued the norm for Delhi NCR. MSME and industries are in Delhi NCR. Due to pollution, they should not be allowed to gen sets. It's not a big deal, they should not be allowed to gen sets. We used to have a weight of 4%. We used to have a weight of 18%. 18% is GST. It's on labour and it's on rometial. Please understand the reality of what is going on. You are in the way and you are being taken out of the way. And the way you are being removed from the path is demonetization.  You are not being allowed to use generators. Why well as monopolies in the country have their own power plant?  We are aware of this subject. But what to do? Organise yourselves. Farmers organise themselves. Farmers did what you couldn't do. They went for the farmers. And the farmers the Bawal matcha dia. That's what it was. Farmers put an end to them. Going against the government is harmful to the industry.   I'm emotional about this because I see it. So please don't take what I'm saying in the wrong way. It's meant from a place of affection. And it's meant from a place of belief in you. I have not come across one small and middle business or not. Not one who has said I'm happy and I'm doing it. I didn't get one. I'm asking you. How is the business? I didn't get one. That's the reality. So my point is this is not the world is having a tough time economically. You're being destroyed. My problem with it is that if you're destroyed, this country cannot produce jobs. Because neither Mr. Ambani nor Mr. Adani are producing any jobs. To me, you're actually the backbone of any Indian economic resurgence. Most of the institutions now have been captured by the sort of ruling permission, which means that they actually don't need to listen to us. And the only way, frankly, to make them listen to voice is to organize yourself properly. Because if you think that you're just being treated unfairly, that's not what's happening. Now you're under attack. They're two different things. Currently, when we think about economic success in India, there's just one word and that's growth. I think small and medium industry is actually the solution to all these problems. So I would like to place that on the table because I like reality to be clear.


Okay, I found this seminar very interesting and useful as we are sharing our experience and the auditor and our fleet also is very great. She is great really. And we have presentation today from our countries and we have listened to Romanian presentation. We found it really interesting, really useful. And I expect from this seminar that I will develop our experience too and I will share the knowledge get here to my country and my colleagues in Georgia. Thank you very much to Ukraine, to Sakartu, and to the American people. Thank you very much for the seminar, thank you very much for the feedback, and I hope that Sakartu will be able to share your experience with us.


M' healed everybody and thanks for the great turn out, just to let you know about a little bit more background. I've come up the southern motorway today to be here. I'm the son of South Auckland, I grew up in South Auckland and I've lived in South Auckland for most of my life. And I have some proud to say that. Now what I want to talk to today about is what I've called a view from the south and I want to offer you a perspective of some of the quite—I believe—shameful statistics around South Auckland. South Auckland, and the challenge that presents us as a city to become a more inclusive city. I'm not certain where the slide comes from. I think it's a joke that white people are rescued from South Auckland, but basically that's the open slide. Benjamin Disraeli said this in the Victorian England that he spoke of Britain and England, and he said, two nations between whom there is no intercourse, no sympathy, who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets, the rich and the poor. I think as a consequence of the work that Thomas Peggity has done with respect to rising inequality in the global society, I think we're tracing our way back to that sort of environment, that we have two sets of people who are completely ignorant of how the other part lives.  But I would suggest to you that it includes of six suburb, so Wotahu, Mangere, Papatoetoe, Wotara, Manurewa, which is my home suburb in Papakura. What I've done is just taken some images of the various parts of that place, and this image here, which you can't point to. The top right-hand corner is the image of my favourite football team, the mighty Manawa Marlins, who I must say the women are playing in the grand final at Mount Smart Stadium on the south. South Auckland is quite—the six suburb of South Auckland quite different ethnically. But overall Pacifica people are the most numerous, making up something like 40% of that population. The European Parkour, that surprisingly make up the second-biggest ethnic group, and Māori and Asian people more broadly defined make up the rest in equal measure. It's interesting to note too that one-third of all the Pacific people who live in New Zealand live in those six suburb. So it is a predominantly Pacific place, but it's not entirely. And one of the things you notice is if you had time to add up all those percentages, add up to more than 100%, because, of course, that multi-ethnicity to people identify with, and that is especially a characteristic of South Auckland. One of the several things here is just indicators of some of the challenges we face in South Auckland. Firstly, talking about declining home ownership. Just under one-half of households in the 2013 census were owned by the occupiers, as compared with about 35% or 36% of the rest of Auckland. So you can see that South Auckland is predominantly a tenant community. It doesn't have as much control over its environment as many other suburb and communities do, and in fact the rate in which home ownership was being converted into investment-driven rental property is two-and-a-half, three times what it was elsewhere in New Zealand and Auckland. If we look at the number of houses that have been built in South Auckland relative to the number of people that have moved there or been born there, we find that over the last five years or so that we've built one house for every seven people. Compared to one house for every four people across the rest of New Zealand, about one house for every two-and-a-half people across New Zealand. So is it any wonder that we're now starting to see that? The pressure on their housing stock starting to spill over was literally people living in doorways sleeping in cars with their children in car parks. It's a consequence of the serious neglect over the last 10 years, really, to actually provide any affordable housing in South Auckland. Looking at crime rates. One of the things, and it's difficult now to identify closely crime figures because of the way that the stats have changed a bit, and of course we know too that only probably around about a third or less of crime is actually reported, particularly serious assaults. So what we're seeing here in terms of reporting crime is a tip of the iceberg. But we know that in some parts of South Auckland in particular, the police district doesn't divide up South Auckland quite as I would like it. So you've got to take bits of sub-police districts and add them all together. But the two more central ones are Counties Manukau West and Counties Manukau Central. And the chances of recording an assault in those places is twice the rate that it is in the rest of Auckland and at least one-and-a-half times the rate for the whole of the Counties Manukau district. Similarly recorded break-ins are nearly 60% higher. So this is a place, as we probably know, and there was a headline in the Herald today about a youth fight in the streets of Margaret East. Those are fairly common representations of South Auckland. And it's regrettable, but that's in some respects the lived experience of many people. And I have to say most of us are as angry about that as you would be if you lived there. We certainly don't normalise or accept that it's just how we have to live. And if we look at rates of youth offending, the youth in South Auckland are probably 50% more likely to be apprehended for an offence. Whether that's because the police are better at apprehending criminals in South Auckland or whether it's because there's more offending, I don't know, but the reality is that we have a significant relative problem with youth offending in our suburbs. Then we pass into pass rates in NCA. Twice as many South Auckland secondary school students leave school without the NCA level one than the rest of Auckland. And if we look at the topping in the terms of level three and entry into places like this, the rate of South Auckland students achieving that level three NCA is only two thirds of what it is for the rest of Auckland. So we find that our young people face significant disadvantages and it's no wonder because this graph shows the distribution of students by decile in the schools. You'd expect, obviously, in a lovely, normal world that there's a 10% next decile, but you find that 55% of South Auckland children go to a decile one school and a total 77% go to a decile one and two school. And of all the children attending decile one and two schools in South Auckland and Auckland, 77% of them live in South Auckland. And only 2%, 1.8% in fact, of children who are attending a decile nine and ten school go to a school in South Auckland. And that includes King's College, which is actually in South Auckland. So you take King's College out, it's almost nobody, about 200 kids attend a decile nine and ten school. So it shows you just how concentrated this inequality and this relative disadvantage actually is. The whole series of things you could talk about with respect to that as to what happens to children who go to those schools and why, but it's a simple fact that there is this huge concentration of poor Aucklanders into these suburbs. I just want to end with a comment that John Key made and a speech he made in 2007. He said, we are seeing a dangerous drift towards social and economic exclusion. I know we can do better, he said. We have to do better because let's uncheck the problems of a growing class to affect all of us. And I just want to leave with that as an issue. Whether or not Mr Key's policies have subsequently addressed as a challenge is clearly something we might debate tonight. The reality is that I certainly agree with that analysis. And what I'd like to do is to offer three things, four ideas for us to become a more inclusive Auckland. For me it seems unlikely that South Auckland will be included in the wider Auckland way of life and until we make significant progress on the following three things. One is that we addressed entrenched education disadvantage, including the middle class privilege within the education system. Secondly, that we ensure that no young person Auckland-wide might just in South Auckland leave the educational training without a job. Thirdly, that we begin with some seriousness rather than just empty rhetoric to provide housing which is affordable, safe and secure. And finally, that we accept that if we want people not to live in poverty that we do need to pay them decent living wages in order for them to support their family. Those are the four ideas I want to leave with and thank you for your time. Thank you.


Hi and welcome to school puzzle. I'm your host Sarah and this is the show where we chat with everyday entrepreneurs about everything that goes into starting a new venture. Any episodes of this show I've interviewed entrepreneurs in all stages of their journey and today I am thrilled to introduce a serial entrepreneur that has achieved an elite level of success not commonly achieved. Alan J. Cohen is the CEO and co-founder of op-net technologies which he built from the ground up and eventually sold for one billion dollars. He's an inventor on more than 60 patents relating to software, networks, electronics, algorithms and simulation and has a degree in electrical engineering from MIT. He went on to become the CEO and co-founder of bubble up and co-bro ventures plus sits on the board of directors at C4 Therapeutics. Today we're going to sit down with him to learn how he built his empire and what advice he may have for aspiring entrepreneurs. Welcome to the show. Hello nice to meet you.  I use it literally every day so thank you so much for creating that. I'd love to just hear your story because you've achieved the level of success that most entrepreneurs really dream of so can you just tell me like how did you get started? I'll tell you that as a child I was already interested in business. I was just like a lot of kids. I had the proverbial lemonade stand and I enhanced it and started selling arts and crafts. I wanted to make more money at my lemonade stand. It's so funny you started that way. I love that. It's like so typical and now look at you. And then eventually my family moved back to France where I was born and there I took up stamp collecting and I would go to the I would go to the stamp market in Paris by myself you know I was a seven or eight year old and I'd go and I'd buy stamps and then I would sell them to other kids who were interested in stamp collecting of course for a profit. So how old were you at this point? Seven, eight, nine.   And so I guess it was just a matter of time before I found another idea. And when I was in school at MIT I was in a class I had a graduate project on data networking and it was kind of the early days of the internet and networking was a really hot field and I thought what could I do in this field that would be innovative. And I came up with an idea for a project the class required a project and that eventually became my thesis and then after I graduated I told my brother I said you know there's something here we can start a business with this and I'm very lucky to have my brother Mark with whom I do everything we do all of our businesses together we're a team. Yeah you guys have co-founded three businesses together is that correct? We've had quite a few businesses together and and continue to do that and so we decided that we would make a you know we could have a go at turning this project that I had started in school into a into a business and then we just slowly grew the business and one of the points I'll make later talking about how to get how to get started in the beginning we took on a few investors. Yeah how did you do that how did you get the investors and I believe you started this business in 1986. Yes that's correct so um well you know we talked to people we knew you know some people weren't interested some people felt we were crazy and then but we weren't asking for that much money we were trying to we were trying to get twenty twenty five thousand dollars together. And what did what was that funding for initially just um investing in equipment or what did you use the funding? Yeah buying buying some equipment buying some computers um it's a it was a software project so we needed some computers but for about a year we worked on trying to get into a product and then of course we needed to do a little marketing but everything was done on the shoestring budget. So this is for OpNet can you briefly explain what OpNet does in the most simplistic terms Well in the very beginning OpNet was a product buy geeks for geeks it was apparently something we would sell to other engineers and it was used by people who were working on the fundamental technologies of the internet and of data networks and so in order to develop those things they needed a way to prototype and simulate those those capabilities that they were creating without having to build the real thing at first and right because it's way more expensive to do that whole thing yeah kind of like when engineers build the bridge they build a model of it first you see that's exactly what i was thinking of yeah it's like architecture you build a miniature version of a skyscraper and then once you're you like the idea you build the real skyscraper exactly you got it so so here you're you're testing how the system is going to work and run and behave and so people use it a lot you know in the beginning to engineer everything from telephone networks to networks on the space station to networks on an on an airplane and the internet itself some of the what we call protocols that are in the internet itself and in fact GoDaddy was a customer of ours really yes absolutely oh look at that it comes full circle yeah so we and then we grew it and then our products started um take you catching on and all the big service providers like GoDaddy like AT&T like Verizon they were all using it and so we grew and grew and we started creating new products so by the time we were done we probably had about a dozen products including hardware products that were used to monitor networks etc so um so how long did this take from your first customer to your first 10 customers oh well that probably took about a year and then eventually we found some people were invest interested in investing in our company we were interested in going public as a company and we knew that to go public it would be good to have some people who had had that kind of experience before so we brought on some late-stage venture capital okay obviously near what they were doing in terms of taking a company public how many years did that take you to go public about a dozen years before going public okay and then and then after we went we went public in 2000 during the time where the stock market was having a huge crisis uh the bubble was the bubble was uh at that point uh you know popping once we did get out onto the market we did great and we were one of the top 10 IPOs of the year and you know we had a we had a lot of a lot of interest in the company so in 2012 you actually sold the company for one billion dollars which is unreal congratulations on that thank you how let's just tell me everything about that please well um there were people interested in buying the company we also felt that it was a good time for the company to maybe be part of a bigger you know part of a bigger platform so we could have sales worldwide for example we had only we had been selling worldwide but not as much as we could there's so much more market share we could take in japan in china in australia where we had a small we had a small presence overseas so to be part of a bigger platform would create value can you talk about a few of those things that you think are absolutely essential to bringing a business from literally your mom's house to a one billion dollar company you were the real garage shop that yeah i love that yeah well um i mean like i said you know all of those steps that went in between of course i think some of the key things that happened along the way are the people that you add to your team you're not gonna get there you're not going to get there by yourself you might have some companies where i think you know the management or the ceo is um you know has let's say uh a style which is very draconian and it's my way or the highway and and i think that that probably lessens the chance of success it can still work if you have an incredible vision everybody's working on and if the market is right and people are there for the money and they see that it's happening and people might stick around but not every business has all of those things and in some businesses you know you need the team to persevere through tough times like you were saying you're if you have crisis you have to go through and so having that team dynamic to me is going to increase the chance of success and having people who get along and work well together and aren't so ego driven but are wanting to be part of a bigger something how do you find them that's for me hiring people has been such a process for my business do you have any advice on how to hire the ideal person for a specific role first of all we never have an interview that lasts less than a day i mean it's always at least a day um and and how do you make it last that long because i feel like most interviews today are 30 minutes 30 to 60 minutes and then how can you get which is why a lot of the time things don't work yeah because you haven't really gotten to know much about that person right no first of all the last thing you want to do is go over their resume and ask them to repeat what's on their resume right so what you what you want to do what you want to do is dig into some of the things that are on their resume that you think were the most important and see if they can talk about them in an articulate way in a way that proves they really did those things and they were really involved in those things and they weren't just part of some group of people who did it and they were just kind of a bystander i think you have to also do some kind of a mock situation at least one or two where you have to do what they're going to do in their job okay yeah so you can observe and you can see how they react it might be a little bit contrived it's okay in our case a lot of our products are tech products we're we're doing you know we're creating software and so so do you have them do a test yes absolutely we have you usually do around three or four during the day where we have some interviews where it's not a test but then at least three or four problems that they have to solve in real time we give them 30 minutes go do something and then we talk about it it's not about getting it right or wrong it's about how they their thought process you know turns out to be oh interesting so for you if they get it wrong it's not an end game it could be explained to me why you did it this way right and can you think of a better way to have done it and if i point out a problem to you can then you maybe you couldn't see the flaw in it yourself but then if i point out a flaw or an improvement could you then take it to the next level by yourself so like yeah just to kind of just to have a discussion with somebody and you see if you know we're kind of similar not necessarily similar thinkers but if they have they're familiar with those kinds of thought processes that are important in your company yeah so what about this situation they're really good at what they do but you just don't get along with them this is a problem i mean i guess you'll have to decide if it's fixable and and maybe give a few attempts at fixing it i have definitely fixed some situations yeah you have to get to the heart of why it's not going well in terms of interpersonal usually the problems i've had to fix would have been interpersonal among other people not with me do you have any tips on on managing people and working through challenges like that yeah well first of all if you do have a challenge like that i would say like i said you gotta find out what's really what's really going on people what's the issue yeah what's the what's the real rub between these different people you know and sometimes it could be an ego problem sometimes you have to read you have to kind of separate people and have them work separately i've done that successfully have them work on different areas of the company and then they each have their own little turf but ideally you want to avoid these ego these people with huge egos to begin with okay if you can you also well before we had this interview you mentioned the importance of staying motivated and growing a company yeah sometimes this can be really hard especially when you don't see successes or if you have so much success like what you had that you're kind of like why even could like why do more i just made a billion dollars why not retire right right why not retire well and i don't get to do fun so how do you remain motivated is the question yeah you know what keeps me motivated is what has always kept me motivated from the beginning is i still haven't lost that interest in taking an idea from its inception all the way to reality and then you know testing it out there in the world so that that whole process of the creative process is what gives me the biggest high that i can have yeah you know you have an idea it all starts in one moment it's incredible to believe i can still remember the moment i thought about the idea that launched the company that we sold for a billion dollars it only takes a second and then be careful because in one second you could determine the next 20 years of your life it's so scary when you put it like that that is true it's true it's true right and that's true for so many things in life but oh my gosh you got so you got it you got to be careful what you think about during that second yeah so yeah so how do you how do you direct yourself to the right decision i mean there's so many ideas that happen our heads as entrepreneurs and how do we know when we're pursuing the right thing and what should we pay attention to when we're starting a business i mean yeah you have to have hopefully you know you have a good head on your shoulders and you can reason about whether or not this idea has really has legs can it get somewhere is there a mark you know is there a market will people be interested why are they gonna be interested test it with other people talk to people don't live in isolation uh you know you want to um you want to uh challenge yourself don't just drink your own kool-aid so for a while in the beginning you need to be thinking does this really have an opportunity to succeed and then what about the competition there's so many things that can cause you to fail and then there's another problem of course which is raising money and you know do you have it yeah it's very challenging for most people raising money absolutely and another another word of advice to early entrepreneurs i i think is uh that i think is really important is you know are you be skeptical about your own plans everybody has like a two-year plan and a five-year plan and so on well first of all when you're in the very beginning five-year plan is not very meaningful you know the first two years are going to change your five-year plan so see see if you can get out to market and selling your product you know that's maybe a two-year plan depends on what your business is of course but you need to be skeptical of your own plan and everything takes longer than you think and everything is harder than you think and everything is more expensive than you think so you can just go ahead and multiply everything by two or three right off the bat you know it's just so true so sad but so true so what are some specific pitfalls that people should look out for when they're starting a business yeah i think i think that that's one of them i i think another one is that's that's pretty important is if you get investors and people who believe in you some people are so grateful to have those investors and that they're ready to give away the farm and so they start they start giving away so much stock in their company that they don't even realize that there's going to be another round of investment later and then probably another round of investment later and by the time they're successful they might own such a small percentage of their own company that they're not even really in the control position anymore and so as a result other people could actually take your baby away from you to what extent is success and entrepreneurship about the financial rewards money is good for many things as you know it's a universal currency obviously so it's good for many things part of it is your own lifestyle there's no doubt but also part of it is what you can then do with it on the next round you can start new businesses okay and then okay so you might say well that's just kicking the can down the road you're just getting more money what are you gonna do with that and but the point of it is that you can you can have an impact on the world in various ways there are so many great causes in the world you know there are so many people who are less fortunate there are so many people who unfortunately have been afflicted by a disease there are people who need help with so many different situations in their life and it is a tremendous tremendously satisfying thing to be able to have an impact on other people's lives so what are you doing to give back well some some of it is in purely philanthropic and some of it is philanthropic investing so with my brother mark we've funded quite a few biotech companies that are working on cures for important diseases uh cancer several different types of cancer well i'm certainly thankful that you're doing all of this research and you've created so many helpful things that impact my life directly you're the co-founder of bubble up which is a cloud-based software i like to explain it to people it's like a combination of pinterest and google drive so it's very visually easy to use but it also has all of the features that you would need like in google drive kind of for those that aren't familiar with it if if you don't know what it is you should download it's actually free to download and there's different levels of storage space that you can purchase um now uh why did you decide to get into that whole thing so the the idea was like with many entrepreneurs i think to relate back to entrepreneurship i think what a lot of entrepreneurs rightfully think about when they want to start a business is either because they stumbled on it or it was something that was very present in their life or they noticed other people were having some kind of a problem some kind of some kind of uh improvement that was possible i was thinking about something that i wasn't completely satisfied with and i felt for me with bubble up the the initial thought was that this activity that we perform online all the time which is a cycle of like searching for information and then trying to save it somehow hang on to it and then maybe sharing it with other people and that that cycle is not satisfactory because the reason it's not satisfactory is each of those things is separate it's kind of disorganized and i think bubble up made that whole process really easy and that's why i use it every day like literally i'm not even exaggerating what bubble up does also besides having very powerful features for organizing is to try to make it intuitive by making it very visual so you have pictures associated with everything and so and that's why i like to explain it as a kind of like Pinterest in a way visually right visually it's a lot like Pinterest because pictures are the way you identify things right but then when you dig into those things you can put any kind of information so you can put documents you can put web links you can put photos you can put your own notes so it's a it's a anything you want so what it tends to do is to get you to think about your organization in terms of topics another thing i didn't even mention with bubble up is the name the reason for the name is that oh yes please share all of the content you save as long as it's public content we never look at your private content okay as long as you say public content like a web page okay because it's public anyway all right we will look at that content and we might we'll give you suggestions based on the fact that you've saved that in your folder so what would you say is one thing that has made you successful like the top thing knowing why you want to do this that you are doing right now always have a clear connection with your reasons for having this business why because you're going to run into a lot of problems and as you run into those problems and you're gonna have a lot of days where you're saying why am I even doing this oh my god just go get a job where somebody else makes the decisions and I just have to do what I'm asked to do it's so much easier but it's so less satisfying well there's that satisfaction but you have to know like why maybe maybe you're doing it just because you want to prove it to yourself and that is important that's okay but if you can figure out the top one two or three reasons why you are doing this and always keep them in your mind write them down put them on a put them on a on a bulletin board something you know have a note somewhere and just remember I'm connected to this for a reason and and hopefully that motivation stays with you the whole journey because it's gonna be important otherwise that's kind of like your seat belt when you get into a bumpy bumpy right otherwise you can veer off the road and go in the wrong direction yeah you gotta have your compass right so I would say number one number one thing is have your compass a hundred percent that's very very important what's one thing that you learned along the way that you wish you knew when you started the part about really truly understanding my market you know like I feel I feel like you can never do enough research I think like sometimes it's too easy to just go on your gut feeling and feel like people don't want this people are gonna like this and not ask enough other people for their input on that what is one piece of advice that you would give to an aspiring entrepreneur I would say that you are going to meet many people in your journey as an entrepreneur you are going to work with probably investors unless you already have your own capital you are going to have employees and you are going to have customers and all of those people are going to want to know what your business is about and what makes it special and what makes it interesting and why it provides value and that means that you have to be on point and you have to be articulate about answering that question when anybody asks well that is very helpful this has been so eye-opening and informative and I just feel like I'm going to go and start a billion dollar company right now so thank you so much for speaking to me today and to sharing your advice with all of us here um so it's it's just been wonderful having you on the show along thank you so much it's been an honor to be on the show and let me know what your billion dollar idea is because I want to invest oh well then I sure will as soon as I think of it and do a lot of research and ask a lot of people yeah and make sure I have all of the things you just said be ready to answer all my questions oh I want to be so ready for it thank you so much and thank you to everyone who tuned in today if you want to learn more about bubble up you can go to bubbleup.com and that is all for this edition of school hustle now if you want to check out our other episodes you can watch them on youtube or you can listen on google podcast apple podcast spotify or wherever you can stream and download a podcast and if you like what you heard please consider sharing with a friend and leaving a review I'm going to see you next time thanks for watching bye


Hello friends welcome to the session I am Alka I am going to help you find dy by dx in y equal to sin inverse 1 minus x square upon 1 plus x square where 0 is less than x is less than 1. So let us start with the solution we are given y equal to sin inverse 1 minus x square upon 1 plus x square. Now let us assume that x equal to 10 theta this implies theta equal to 10 inverse x this implies y equal to sin inverse 1 minus 10 square theta upon 1 plus 10 square theta. Now since we all know that cos 2 theta equal to 1 minus 10 square theta upon 1 plus 10 square theta so this implies y equal to sin inverse cos 2 theta. Now we all know that sin 90 minus theta equal to cos theta therefore in place of cos 2 theta we will write y equal to sin inverse sin pi by 2 minus 2 theta this implies y equal to pi by 2 minus 2 theta and we can also say that y equal to pi by 2 minus 2 into 10 inverse x using equation first. Now we will differentiate both the sides with respect to x this gives us dy upon dx equal to dy upon dx of pi by 2 minus 2 into d of dx 10 inverse x this implies dy by dx equal to 0 minus 2 into 1 upon 1 plus x square therefore dy by dx equal to minus 2 upon 1 plus x square. Hope you understood the solution and enjoyed the session goodbye and take care.


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