Film making on a budget? Is it possible? Zesty Michael show us if it's possible to make films for cheap and then we're going to reveal the jackpot winner in today's $100,000 sponsorship powered by Freedom. I'm your host Tiffany and you're watching Impulse. What is up Freedom? My name is Zesty Mike and if you did not know I am a filmmaker. I've been studying film pretty much all my life like out of the womb I was like mmm I like videos and then I went to college for media communications for about two years and then transferred to new school, studied digital filmmaking and got my bachelor's degree. So I'm here to share my tips of the trade to you but fellow freedom friends. If you're someone that likes to vlog or create short films or even comedy sketches I'm here to help you. Hey do you have a dollar I can borrow? To make this I only used three things, the lighting that was already in the house, a digital camera and then a digital recorder. Now watch this again without the digital recorder. This short film was made for a total of $150 and that's purchasing the camera and audio equipment everything. So the camera I used was the Canon ELPH300HS that cost about $70 new in box. I didn't buy it brand new I bought it new in box because it was used like a minute and they put it back in the box and give it back so I got it super discounted for 70 bucks. So assuming you already have a digital camera you can purchase yourself a cheap audio recorder and you can use the two to combine and make a nice little cinematic feel video for cheap. For Michael I want to make bills that I have $150 to spend on equipment. Trust me if you want to make it happen you won't make it happen when I bought my first camera I actually went door to door and mowed lawns and then I saved up enough money to buy my first digital camera and then I bought an mp3 player that actually had a voice recording option where you talked into the headphones, clicked record at both the same time, synced them up in post and boom had my video ready to go.  You don't need money to make good films all you need to know is how to work with the equipment that you do have or lack thereof. You guys are all awesome people and if you want it I'm sure you can make it happen throughout this series I have a lot of stuff planned for you guys I want to start out with cameras and then move to shooting techniques and editing techniques and even VFX breakdowns but my goal is if you have just started filmmaking you can actually pick up this series watch the first episode and work your way up to the top with everyone else. So even if you have been doing film for a while hopefully you can still get something out of the beginning videos because I want to try and do stuff that is for everyone and try and make it open for everyone as well. However I want to hear your guys' input so if you have something in particular that you want to learn go ahead and leave a comment down below and let me know and then I will do my best to shine some light on that particular topic. But anyways guys that's it for me today if you want more of me you can come over to my personal channel where I upload daily vlogs every single day. You can see the space every single day if you want to it's possible I promise and we also have a vine where I'm gonna be uploading really stupid videos like in the beginning of this we're doing that on the regular so if you want to check that out the link through the description below but finally the moment you have been waiting for the winner of today's hundred thousand dollar sponsorship Tiffany. 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Firefighter safety is something we take very seriously at CFA. Our crews operate in dangerous conditions and we need to provide them with the training and equipment required to ensure their safety. Bushfire burnovers are potentially fatal situations where crews are caught out at the head of an intense fire front, often caused by a sudden change in wind direction and strength. Because the flame front is fast moving, crews have an extremely short period of time to prepare for the burnover. Crew protection systems need to be easily and rapidly deployed. Firefighters should be regularly trained with the crew protection systems so that the deployment of the systems becomes second nature to them. CFA's crew protection systems have been evolving since the 1977 western district fires when standard tanker design and heat shielding were first introduced. 1983 was the year of the Ash Wednesday fires. Twelve CFA volunteers tragically died during a burnover at Upper Beaconsfield. From that event, the tanker fleet was upgraded to all diesel-powered vehicles and further research conducted into equipping tankers with fire-resistant materials. In 1998, the Geelong West and Geelong City tankers were fighting a forest fire near Linton, Victoria. These firefighters were in unfamiliar surrounds amongst a large quantity of heavy and fine fuels and were possibly unaware of appending wind change. Once the wind change occurred, the firefighters were unable to safely retreat before the fire front arrived.  All five crew members on the Geelong West tanker perished in the fire. The coronial inquiry into the Linton tragedy found that the tanker crew protection was inadequate, as was situational awareness of the firefighters at the time. Significant research and crew protection system developments occurred as a result of the Linton burnover. Following the inquiry, a minimum skills training system was introduced to enhance the skills of our firefighters. Water spray deluge systems, drop-down radiant heat shields and other crew protection components were introduced to all new medium and heavy tankers in 2006 and retrofitted on older models before the 2013-14 fire season. These crew protection systems provide a survivable space for crews during a burnover. Additional radiant heat shielding was also applied to vulnerable tanker components, including the pumps, cabling and hoses, as well as low-level water indicators on the tanks. Further review, enhancement and validation of the crew protection systems have been part of ongoing research activities to ensure they are best placed to enhance the safety and survival of our firefighters. Initially, testing was completed at the Bushfire Flame Front Simulator Research Facility in Mogo, New South Wales, using gas-fuel flames. Positive results from these experiments led to recommendations for further field testing to validate the simulated bushfire results. Initial field tests were conducted at Tumba Rumba, New South Wales, but the burns were not able to replicate the intensity of the Linton fire. Just how the crew protection systems would stand up to a fast-running grass fire, grassland field tests occurred in Wangerata, Victoria. The results showed the systems were effective in grass fires. The aim of the forest field test was to recreate the burnover scenario based on the 1998 Linton fire burnover. A site in Brocknell, Victoria was selected due to its similar, heavy and fine fuels and topography. Both sites were dominated by stringy bark trees and had a long unburnt understory. The day of the test burn was selected to also replicate the same weather conditions and subsequent fire intensity and behaviour as experienced at Linton. The following footage from the burn at Brocknell shows the crew protection system being tested on the medium tanker. As the fire progresses, you can observe the temperature beside the tanker and the temperature inside the cabin. The estimated average fire intensity at Linton was 9,500 kilowatts per metre. The average fire intensity at the experimental fire was 19,000 kilowatts per metre with 31,000 kilowatts per metre peak intensity at impact on the tankers. A medium tanker with the current crew protection system, a polymer gel protected ultralight tanker and a Class A foam protected ultralight tanker were tested during the Brocknell experimental test. All the tanker crew protection systems adequately met crew survivability objectives during the experimental burn test. It is important to remember that crew protection systems rely on a number of active systems to operate such as water supply, pumps to run and fire to be within the limits of the system capability. Crew protection systems are always a last resort and can never be absolutely guaranteed to ensure safety in all circumstances.


Hey everyone, that's it. We've had the first European Grand Prix of the season in Imola. Obviously Enzo Endino Ferrari is the name of the racetrack. Imola has got a huge history. May 94, Elton Senna, his last race in Formula 1, but also some other incredible races. 2005 or 2006, Schumacher vs Alonso, incredible. So yeah, when we got back to Imola in 2020 with Formula 1, the first shootouts around the track were just amazing. I loved it. I'm glad to see that Formula 1 is going back there. Weekend was a bit tricky with conditions. It rained, it was dry on Saturday. The race was half dry, but my five points. First of all, Red Bull, Red Bull is back. Red Bull was first and second and nothing better you can get with the fastest lap. Max was top and one, the qualifying race. So definitely Red Bull had a very successful weekend. They showed speed all during the weekend. They leave Imola under the colors of Ferrari who is the first and second. Amazing. Talking of Ferrari, it's a lot of pressure for Ferrari at Imola. It's kind of their own race with Monza as well. And if Mugello you know isn't the calendar, that's their three races. But Imola is like 50 miles away from the factory of Ferrari. So a lot of pressure. I felt like the team did a good job. They had a fast car, but the drivers didn't quite got it 100% perfect. Colour signs crashed in qualifying and at a contact at lap one of the race. You see, I don't think there was much you could do there, but he ended up in the gravel. If he had maybe started more at the front, would have been, you know, maybe a different story. And then Charles Leclerc tried really hard. And I like that. I like that he tried so hard to get P2 in that main race, overtake Perez and you know, send it at the chicane, lost the rear end, was very lucky to hit the wall and not damage more of the car. The real question here is how much damage was there on the car. And I've kept going with a broken front wing. What would have been the loss of lap time with the broken front wing versus feeling to change the wing. So obviously in Formula One, you've got a lot of data or the engineers can see a lot of stuff. Maybe it would have been good to try to keep P3 with the broken front wing. Anyway, good recovery after that. But luckily at a big margin in the championship, but a tough weekend for the Ferrari drivers. Third point, Lendo Norris. Amazing, really good. You know, again Lendo shows maturity, speed, consistency. McLaren has bounced back from that first race in Bahrain. That was a disaster and they're doing really good. I'm pleased to see that, you know, those guys managed to put it back together. And I'm surprised Mercedes didn't manage to come back in a game yet. So that's point four and fourth position of George Russell. An amazing driver from George. An amazing, you know, first lap and getting through the traffic and getting the best of that car. You know, he could cap the Alfa Romeo behind him. If he finished fourth, Lewis is down to 14th position. So very, very impressive job by George Russell. But a little bit disappointing not to see Mercedes bringing big update. I was convinced they would bring a big update in Imola and they did not. And they're still on the back foot. So I'm looking forward to seeing Mercedes back at the front, 100%. But difficult at the minute. But George doing incredible podium last race. No, that's false. And he's up there with the car. It's not clearly not to the level. Point number five, Kevin Magnussen. Very happy to see Kevin doing so well. Falsing, qualifying, again showing his class and experience and speed and being there and not making any mistakes. I think they're harsh in race space was not super competitive the last two days. But again, Kevin was up there in comparison with his teammates. He shows that experience and speed and so on are very important Formula one. Very difficult weekend for me, Schumacher on one end and another brilliant weekend from Kevin Magnussen. So I'm really happy to see Kevin doing so well. As I said at the beginning of the videos after the race one, race two, I hope I can keep up the development that worries me a little bit. But for now, Kevin is doing an absolute incredible job. So super happy with that. Alfa Romeo also doing great with with Bottas. So yeah, that was that was Imola. Next race is my home race, Miami. I can tell you one thing. Everyone is so excited about the race in Miami. It's gonna be huge. I'm gonna try to get you a few feedback on the racetrack as soon as possible. But make sure that as always, like, subscribe, comments, please let me know what you want to talk about. I try to get, you know, different background for you today, a little bit different. So we get a change. We've got plenty of IDs on the pipeline, but please make sure that you also ask me what you want in the videos and I'll see you very soon.


Weekly Q&A, time to rock and roll. All the questions this week are coming from YouTube, exclusively, none from email, Twitter or Facebook. I honed in, because there's a lot. There's a lot on YouTube, so I decided this week we're gonna focus on YouTube. Before we dive in, real quick, shout out to Will Claxton and Matt Bertrand. They watched last week's Q&A, and there was a discussion happening about Seth. Why don't you post the questions and the timestamp down in the description so people can jump around to the topics that they're interested in, because I realized the Q&A can go on for a while. Here's the deal. I don't have time to do the timestamps. I really, I just don't. But I do have time to post the questions in order down in the description, so you can go down. Now, forget the grammar, forget the spelling with these questions. I'm literally copying and pasting your questions that you're asking from last week's Q&A and all the vlogs over, let's say, the past two weeks. I can't get to all the questions, but as many as possible that are applicable to as many as possible, as many people as possible. So that's the new game plan. The questions will be posted hopefully every week. I will remember to do them down in the description and then maybe someday I'll have a little more help where I can get someone to do the timestamps for each question. Sound good? Let's dive in. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. Here we go. Does airport security ever give you any issues with the foam roller? That is from Draw Sam? Yes, they do. They definitely do. A lot of times they think it's a speaker. And who got the foam roller, that the electric foam roller for Christmas? Who got it? And yes, I get a lot of issues. They pull it out. They think they're concerned, I think, mostly about the battery inside. So anyway, but I've made it through Amsterdam, Argentina, all those places. No problem. Moving on, number two. Do you have time for naps between runs? That's from Agnes Day. And Agnes Day, I do not. A lot of the elites take naps. You know, when they are fully sponsored and they literally have nothing else to do all day, most of the elite marathon runners and probably 10K guys as well, take naps during the day. I do not. Agnes Day, great question. I don't love naps. And if I take a nap, I actually don't sleep well that night. So good question. Number three. Seth, if you could only wear one pair of running shoes for the rest of my life, what would it be? That's from Syac. And that is such a crazy, impossible question to answer, but I will give it my shot, my best shot. If I had to pick one, it would actually be a road shoe over a trail shoe because I think you can wear road shoes on the trails more than you can wear trail shoes on the road. Okay, so I kind of thought through that process. And then I decided to hone it down to a trainer versus a racer. A racer, there's a higher risk of injury, although a trainer, you know, it's not gonna be as fast on race day. So I'm really honing in here. So if I had to choose one, I'd probably go, I mean, my easy answer would probably be New Balance Beacon. I love it so much. It's light enough and snappy enough and soft enough that I think would prevent injuries. But I know I keep kind of swooning over the Asics Glide Ride, but I'm just loving it so, so much. And we'll get to that shoe in a minute about the full review. So that is my answer, Syac. Number four, here we go. Have I missed the video reviewing the Skechers Max Road 4? That's from Devin Edwards. You have not Devin. I decided not to do a full review on the Asics Glide Ride or the Skechers Max Road because I lumped it into my best running shoes of 2019, road running shoes of 2000 and those two made the top three. So I'll try to remember to link to it in the upper right hand corner, that vlog. And Devin, I, once my knee is better, I plan to do a full review of the Asics Glide Ride. So good question. Moving on. Here we go. Stefan on YouTube. He's saying, so for those that don't know, if you didn't see today's vlog, I called it. I'm not racing the Houston Marathon. I'm not gonna be in the Olympic Trials. It was a tough decision. My knee is, it's just not gonna allow me to do it. And if you haven't seen that vlog, go watch it, upper right hand corner. But Stefan is wondering, he says, why is decision, thank you. And he says, any idea for your spring marathon? So at this point, Stefan, I'm not locked into a spring marathon as far as I'm definitely going to do one. I'm gonna see how I recover, see how the knee recovers, but I'm definitely, definitely intrigued. But if I had to throw a couple out there, I would say, I would say LA, but actually not LA, LA and California because it's a little too soon. It's, I think it's late March and I would want something in April. So I'm thinking, I'm just gonna say it, London, Krakow or Prague, okay? Krakow, Poland, Prague, Czech Republic, London, UK. But it's a matter of figuring out how do I get into these marathons? They're all late April. I think Krakow and London are on the same weekend. And I'm intrigued, I'm intrigued, I'm intrigued. But again, I gotta listen to the body but it definitely not running Houston, not running the Olympic trials, opens up a beautiful spring, healthy spring where I'm not worried about pushing the body too far. So it's a good thing. And this connects as well. This is from, oh, Muscle Fitness on YouTube. He asked, do you regret your decisions on the two marathons back to back, Amsterdam and New York? And then he says, rest up, you'll have a better year in 2020. I do not regret it. And you know the story about my mom and the reason I jumped on it. Oh yeah, and then there's another one. This is from Agnus Dei. He says, do you feel you should have sacrificed New York for Houston? And I don't because New York City is very difficult to get into. I managed to punch my ticket through a connection but frankly, I like to live in the moment and it was a lifelong dream to race. And personally, it's more important to me to race for my mom than to race in the Olympic trials. So when the opportunity presented itself to race New York, it was a no-brainer. Even though it was just two weeks after Amsterdam. And the reason it was a no-brainer, first of all, it's because of my mom, but also New York is, New York and London are the two most difficult marathons to get into, so I've heard. And it's like, gotta live in the moment. Like I jumped on it and I have no regrets. I have no regrets. Also like meeting all of you, it was, I feel like it was meant to be. It was such an amazing experience and I can't wait to go back. Okay, new move it on. This is from Everything Is Photogenic on YouTube. Hey Seth, you mentioned losing a little by way of quad muscles going out of the mountains. Do you think that will change your nutrition strategy a bit to offset any muscle cramping with less musculature to rely on in that area at such a fast pace? So basically adapting my nutrition in order to maybe build up more muscles. And I would say no, I'm trying to understand the question as well. Like I wouldn't change what I'm eating to let's say maybe rebuild some muscles more as far as protein goes. And there are a lot of questions about what I eat in a day. If I remember, I'll link to the vlog upper right hand corner where I talk about nutrition. But anyway, short answer is no, I won't alter what I'm eating. Moving on to E, no neck. He asked, I have to ask, why did you wait until now at this point in your life to do an Olympic qualifier? Great question. So the easy answer is that starting a family, starting work, buying a house, all these things like after college that I think are frankly more important than Olympic trials qualifier. So I put everything on hold for probably seven or eight years of just like living life. And that's the easy short answer is just like time and family.  It's just like opportunities are presenting themselves to go after it, if that makes sense. E, no neck. Thank you for the question. Baba Runfar asks, are am I on Patreon? So I've actually talked about Patreon a couple times on the vlog. Again, if I remember, upper right hand corner. But the short answer is that this channel is growing. It's amazing. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching some of those ads. Basically you guys supporting this channel by returning and watching regularly is allowing me to create, I hope, higher quality videos for all of you. And Baba Runfar, I approach money in that if you were a Patreon supporter, if I was going that route, I would look at it more as a business and like you are buying a share in the company. And I don't wanna go down that road. Patreon is created for artists that want to create something and they're reliant on that support. But I don't like, like what if that money goes away and those Patreon supporters go away? Now, obviously if you continue and they're probably not gonna go away, but I would rather take the approach, I guess to make it a simple answer is a little more of the business approach, Baba Runfar meaning if the quality of the content is good, people will return to watch on a regular basis, which should, if you are strategic, be enough to support that endeavor because as the saying goes, cream rises to the top. That's my answer, good question, but I have talked about that a couple times before. Oh, okay, Nazach Rodriguez, which this kind of connects to Patreon, he asks, where can I buy a coffee mug, Seth? So Nazach, I was not impressed with the quality of the coffee mugs from Teespring and Teespring prints, the T-shirts actually, I have a T-shirt on right now, but I wasn't impressed with the coffee mug quality at all. So Nazach, at some point, I'm gonna have my own merch shop with a beer stein. I don't have it out here right now, but with a beer stein, a hat, higher quality products. But again, it gets back to that, kind of the business side of things where you have to take it one step at a time. So for now, we're sticking with Teespring and someday we will have a nice coffee mug. Thanks for asking that. Okay, moving on. I hope I'm getting through as many as possible. I think we're on question number 13. Holy smokes, John Ekonomu asks, hey, Seth, how do you decide what routes to run? Is it spur of the moment or do you have it planned? Can you please answer in your next video or on a Saturday? Thank you, John. John, I love this question because when I moved from Boulder, where I went to college, where there's a ton of trails, a ton of running, down to Denver, it took me, frankly, so this is a little tip of the day, if you're moving to a new place, just be patient with figuring out where to run. It took me in this house, I would say two years of running before I felt like I understood loops I could make, my 15-mile loop, my 10-mile loop, my 20-mile loop. It just took time to learn and the different surfaces to run on, the different elevation gain. So now, I will do a little spur of the moment, but I'll know, okay, if I go this direction, I know it's gonna be 12, if I go this direction, I know it's gonna be 11, so I'm gonna need to add on one mile at the end, somewhere around my house. So that's a great question, that was from John. I love running routes and just figuring out the different intricacies of the neighborhood. Okay, moving on to Michael Peter. He asks, has anyone heard of frozen lung? If you are running in really cold weather and breathing hard, it can happen and it can cause damage or even kill you. That's from Michael Peter. Michael, I have heard of it and frankly, I know nothing about it. It's not very cold here in Colorado, but please, if you have experience, we're leaning into the Canadians and the Norwegians and the Russians and anybody else who lives in really, really frigid temperatures, is this like a real thing where you have to worry about breathing in really, really cold air in the wintertime? If you could let us know, some thoughts down in the comments, that'd be amazing. Number 15, from Andre. Do you have a Facebook group? We do, Andre. It's listed below in the description. You gotta go digging for it. I think it's toward the bottom. Dig, dig, dig. It's down there, linked Facebook group and we have a good time on the Facebook group. A lot of good questions. Okay, moving on to 16, from T-Rex. How do you break in your racing shoes, types of runs and mileage, T-Rex? I would say, what I do is two runs, maybe three runs, totaling no more than, really like 15 miles. Definitely no more than 20 miles. Usually that 10 to 15 mile range, split up over two runs, just a little bit. And so I probably am a little, I bet some people break their shoes in more, which is fine. I lean a little bit more toward less breaking in is better. And depending on the shoe, there's a huge difference out there with respect to, and now we're dealing with and working with the carbon fiber plates in a lot of marathon racing shoes. So that throws a whole another, but that's my short answer for you, T-Rex.  How do you break, no, on average. How much do you run and at what intensity in the off season? I love this question. And yes, Trapper Keeper, I am now everybody in the off season. It's so exciting. It's hard because I'm, it's bittersweet because I wanted to really give it, give it one more go in Houston, but I must say it's, it's nice to know that I can hit the reset button in a major, major, major, major way. Trapper Keeper, I'm a big fan of frankly getting out of shape in the off season, meaning I'm just like, I'll do, I'll go to the gym. I will, I'll lift a little bit, not much. I'll do some core work. I'll go in the sauna, do stretching, foam rolling, probably like 10 days from now, if the knee is feeling good, I'll start to mix in the pool. But frankly, Trapper Keeper, I'm a big, big proponent of hitting the reset button on the body, like big, big time. So then when I get going again, with respect to running, I'll probably, I'll start out, I won't probably, I'll start out in that 20 miles a week range and then bump it up to 30 and then 40 and then I'll probably stick it 40 for a couple of weeks and then go up from there. So Trapper Keeper, good question. And at what intensity? Slower the better, slower the better. So probably that's for me, 745 to 930 pace, ideally. All right, moving on, good question. Okay, there's a couple here in this one, number 18. This is from Laver Nutrition. Ta-ta-ta-ta, okay. Nope, I'm going to go to this one. Do you ever train on a treadmill? I do not. And the reason why I do not is that I think it, it fires your muscles a little differently. You're not because, you know, the ground's moving beneath you. So it's a little different muscle stimulation. Now I'm not against treadmills, especially if it's really ridiculously cold. I still go out and run in the cold. I know we just talked about frozen lung, but and some people run on treadmills for a little softer surface and I get that. I think that's, you know, wise. I think at the end of the day, it's I enjoy running in the fresh air. That's why I don't. I have nothing against treadmills. It's just that obviously they're pretty boring, but people watch the blog when they're on the treadmill. I appreciate you might be watching it right now, watching this right now on the treadmill. So anyway, those are my thoughts. I've got nothing against it. I just enjoy the outdoors so much more. Okay, moving on. Labor also asks best tips to get faster labor. If I remember question 18, I have a playlist with five or six videos about how to run faster upper right hand corner. Go check it out. Go check it out. Moving on. I gotta be careful with this one. CK Hiker asks, Seth, can you address why you said women should run less mileage? I saw one comment stating it was time on your feet. But you know as a fellow ultra runner, the longer the distance, the smaller the gap of the physical differences between women and men. Courtney and then she lists some very famous ultra runners. Courtney DeWalter, Maggie Gattrell and many others outright win ultras. CK Hiker, you are so correct. So here's where I'm coming from with, I mentioned this maybe last week is that traditionally women train a little less volume than men. And I'd actually like to dig more into this topic. You've peaked my interest, CK Hiker. But one of the reasons I said that is based on my experience in college, women, ladies had to be more conscious of anemia. And that's where your red blood cell count is lower, especially training in altitude. So when I was at the University of Colorado, the ladies did train less volume than the men. So CK Hiker, that's what I was alluding to, but I don't think I actually stated what I'm stating right now is that and also the time on feet, I think is a valid point as well where if a guy is running 20 miles and a lady is running 20 miles, there's a good chance that the lady depending, I mean obviously depending on the talent level, but the lady is gonna be running longer, which means more time on feet. But then you get into the whole discussion about effort during the run. So that's what I'm alluding to is anemia and ladies need to be a little more, at least that's based on what I, the research I've done and the experience that I had at the University of Colorado. And guys need to be cognizant of that as well, where your red blood cell count is low because you're running at a high volume, especially at elevation. It can be a real issue in it. Basically to offset that, you can take iron supplements and yeah. So I actually do take an iron supplement, just so you know. And I will say one more thing, CK Hiker. So it's because it's such a great question is, I've heard in Courtney DeWalter, if you don't know who she is, she is the toughest ultra runner, long distance runner, I'd say in the world for the women, but she wins 100 mile and 200 mile races outright, meaning she beats all the guys. And I've heard that, I've heard like women, they're wired a little differently. Like they frankly can be a little tougher than guys when it comes to longer, like longer run, like 100 mile plus races, the women can be much tougher. It's crazy and I don't know the science and I love it. I love the fact that Courtney is beating these guys. So CK, it's a great point, but that's my answer. And let me just check the back of the camera cause sometimes there we go. We got time.  Okay, question 20. I feel like we're rolling through these pretty well. Moving on run 26 asks, I've been listening to one of the books you love running with the Buffaloes. What do you think about Wetmore's emphasis on reaching high mileage while running singles? So for everyone that doesn't know, I ran at the University of Colorado under Mark Wetmore. He is the, he still is the head coach there and he's been there. Gosh, woof heading toward 25 years ish. No, he's heading toward 30 years. I take that back. So he's won many national championships, coached many Olympians and running with the Buffaloes is a book about the CU cross country program. And it's a great book. It inspired me to walk on to the team and I managed to accomplish that. So he asked, what do you think about Wetmore's emphasis on reaching high mileage while running singles? I love it. I love it. It gets back to the two hour principle that I've talked about for marathon training, made a vlog about that and how after that two hour mark, special things start to happen aerobically in our bodies. I'm not going to go into the science right now and you have to be careful. Got to ease into it. I'll just say I had a lot of injuries at the University of Colorado, but I think what we kind of discovered it was when I was running high mileage and high intensity. And I'll just say it, I think my body was still developing in like, I just feel like I was kind of later to develop as far as my skeletal system. And yeah, I'm just going to, that's kind of one of my theories as to why I maybe had a lot of injuries. Whereas now, I know I had a bone injury this past year, but that was the first one in 10 years. So I, I love running, I love running long distances. I'm a big believer in that aerobic base first and that old school kind of Arthur Liddiard-esque training style. So anyway, that's my answer, run 26. And you mentioned the singles. So we also did doubles at the University of Colorado, but that was after a certain amount of mileage, usually after like 90 miles a week. I just love, I love high mileage. I don't know what to tell you. I just love it. I love it. Okay, moving on, Mike Smith asks, but be careful. You can't just go run high mileage. It takes years, years, years, years, years, years to get, to get to that point. So be, you just don't go do it. Moving on, Mike Smith asked new to running. I've been running consistently for 17 months. Congrats, Mike. I'm up to 35 to 45 miles a week. I think that's pretty solid. As far as like, not too high, not too low. He's ran at mid 30s for last six weeks. Okay. Should I hold this for a while or am I ready to boost up to the mid 50s? Then 70. When am I not a new runner any longer? That's for Mike Smith. Mike, I think it's a great question. Boy, you put me on the spot and I like it. I would say, if you've been running for 17 months injury free, I think you are on the right track. I would say you're not a new runner. Gosh, that's, I don't know if I've ever been asked that. I mean, the easy answer is 24 months. So two years of consistent running with no injuries. And Mike, my recommendation would be to go up to 50 and then hold 50 miles a week for three weeks and then back off for a week. And then see how the body responds to three weeks of 50 miles a week and then back off. And do that two times and then maybe three times. And if you can do that and stay healthy, then you can start to explore 55, 60. But I would say it's gonna take another six months before you would begin to entertain 70 miles a week. It'd be my recommendation. And again, I don't know the surface you're running on. I don't know if you're mixing in workouts, higher intensity stuff. I don't know your elevation gain. So there's a lot of caveats here, but that would be my general recommendation. Good question, Mike. I love it. Okay. This is from, oh, I didn't write the name down. Sorry about that. Would the SLAB Sense 7SG be a good shoe? Solomon SLAB Sense 7SG, for those that don't know, be a good shoe for a muddy 50K. If not, which shoe would be good? So it would be a good shoe for a muddy 50K, but it is aggressive, okay? I would, that would be my shoe, just so you know. But it's like, it's a fast shoe. It's in, okay, the muddy 50K, definitely do SG. And so you have a soft ground lug depth to dig into the mud. And I guess, again, I don't know the elevation gain. I don't know if there's rocks mixed in with the mud, but if it's straight up mud, more mud than not, I would think it would be a great option for you. And I can't wait for the Solomon SLAB Sense 8SG to be released in 2020. It's coming. So, okay, last question. Here we go. Could you please weigh in on running vests when you use one? What features you like? How they should ride, slash fit. Racing with one, hydration bladder versus bottles. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, here we go. I am transitioning a little away from running vests because I'm focused more on marathon racing. But if I was racing a 50K, I would use this Raidlight. This is the three liter. It's being marketed and advertised as the lightest running vest in the world. And I think it still holds that place in the, yeah, it still holds that ranking. So it's Raidlight. It's a French company. And let me just pull this up here. If I was racing a 50K, this 100, 100, 100% would be the vest I would use. And man, you ask about fit.  So I feel like it wraps around my rib cage quite nicely and hydration bladder versus bottles. I usually lean toward bottles just so you know. And then what features I like?  So these are in the front here, right? In the front of this Raidlight. And again, if I was racing a Trail Marathon, I would probably wear this, but I might even just rely on the aid stations. But for a 50K, I would definitely wear this. Now, keeping in mind, like I'm trying to run pretty darn fast. So I want to reduce the amount of weight on my back as much as possible. So you have to weigh that. Yeah, that's something to consider. Another tip of the day is like, you have to weigh like how fast you want to run and then how many aid stations there are and what's going to be at the aid stations and butter my bread. All right, that's my answer, but Raidlight, I love this vest so, so much. All right, that is this week's Q&A. We got another one in the books and question of the day. What questions do you have for me? I'll try and pull as many as possible for next week's Q&A. And again, there's a lot of questions coming in. I think we just went for about a half hour and who knows, if you really are enjoying this and you're getting some value, I can continue to explore doing this better and better, but we're just figuring this. I think this is week five in a row where we're doing this weekly Q&A. So I'm loving it. All right, there you have it. See beauty, work hard. Oh, we're gonna toss it back. Hold on first. We're gonna toss it back to some other Q&As in case you haven't seen them over the past month on the right and the left. All right, onward and upward. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


authors model programmable photonic circuits targeting universal unitaries and verify that a type of unit rotation operator has a heavy-tailed distribution. They suggest hardware pruning for random unitary and present design strategies for high fidelity, and energy efficiency in large-scale quantum computations and photonic deep learning accelerators. This article was authored by SunQU and NamQ Park.


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Happy Friday night. I'm about to glow up. I'm about to get ready Came back from Dom Street today. I worked out. I just ended another week in my life vlog I showered. This is what I'm wearing. Me and my hydro flask always everyone. Anyways, I'm about to get ready We're going to Lila's. This is gonna be a great vlog guys I'm like the happiest I've been by far in a year not to be like the most annoying person ever But I literally cheered up today because I'm just so happy I'm in the best place that I've been in and so long and I'm just like Happy. If you guys are new here subscribe for great vlogs. Okay, I'm gonna start getting ready. We're going to Lila's. Oh my god, by the way guys This candle, I'm gonna turn the light on so you can see this candle right here. It's from H&M legit $14 I'll link below. I bought four. It's beautiful great size $14 like in what world? I'm so excited for this weekend. We are going to Lila's tonight Dom I think is buying a new bag tomorrow I just want to say this to anyone who might be going through a hard time because that has been me the past year specifically the past Six seven months. I've been really hard. It will get better. What kept me through that time was just thinking about this time Like when I got to the other side and I was like, oh my god I just feel so much better and like I got through it and I'm finally at that place and I'm finally at that place And it helped me. That's just what I wanted myself about. I love you guys I'm so excited for the future and everything that's happening. I just have so many Genius things in the work. So anyways, I have this brown top. I didn't want to wear. I don't know.  I know just wait This is the top That's from revolve. I haven't been able to wear it yet. It's like legit still 50 degrees out Do I still just try to wear it? I don't know. I don't these are hard decisions Come in Yeah What how ridiculous am I for wearing this and wait three degrees? That's so cute, but like I Mean isn't ridiculous because it was 80 this weekend. Um, it's like 55 tonight. Oh, you're wearing it tonight. Yeah Cute wait, where we go? I can wear this tomorrow with my other outfit them and it's cute. Yeah, I'll be fine. That's we're going to Lila's So we've gotten ready. I decided to not wear my fun shirt because don't tell me not to Okay, I have to go Okay Let me show you my outfit You can't really see but I have these sneakers with it And I also have these cute Princess Polly heels, which by the way the most comfortable heels ever I would never consider wearing heels anywhere But these don't need to like to rain heels. These are Super with the heels so the commitment is a little bit dressier, you know, whatever but where the sneakers I've got fun I'm 23. I'm just hanging with a friend tonight and that's my vibe So I think I'm gonna have to go with the sneakers even though realistically the heels are better I'll show you full body once again. Here's my makeup. Here's my hair Okay, okay here are my shoes, right?  We've got to figure this out But like look so I have the heel on I get it. Yeah, but I have the sneakers on It's a chill Friday night and realistically it's a chill Friday night even better Well, I don't know Don, which shoe do I go with hear me out though sneakers are more fun and 23 and it's a chill Friday night Yes, I was hoping you would say that okay. Come on pups. All right final outfit This is it.  Okay. Here's the thing what I don't Want to wear this leather jacket over it, but it is cold, but I don't know like already twice in one day That's like more than I did all in 2020. It's crazy. Isn't it? This is not really a look Just me waiting on Dom Story of my life. I can give you my autobiography right now. I was born and then I waited on dog. I know You couldn't be talking to me Well, we like we're going on a safari. It's not fun. I mean we really couldn't be Any more fun any more fun. That's what I was getting Good morning guys. This is one of my favorite sets. It's from set active. I wear it all the time Actually, I'm about to go outside. So I'm gonna put my sweatshirt on I'm gonna take the dogs out and then work out. Happy Monday I haven't vlogged since honestly. I was actually fun this weekend and stayed up until 8 a.m. One night talking doing literally nothing besides talking so now I Was just very tired as you can imagine I'm almost watch the entire Twilight series as well. It's a Monday morning. I'm gonna get back into the swing of things been doing 12 through 30 and Pilates I'm very excited. I'm gonna try one of those. Oh my god. Okay. I tried one of the Elani new Energy drinks after I'd already had like three coffees that day and I had that Friday night at like five For my workouts. I was so tired and I just really wanted to get a workout in before we went to Lila's and I Like I said sit up until 8 a.m. I was talking so like that could have been part of it But like 8 a.m. 8 a.m. I go to bed at 8 p.m. So that was really something so the energy drinks work Um, don't drink them late and also it could have been From other coffees as well. I might try one this morning and see what happens I just used to always drink a Celsius before I did hop a lot of you that like 7 a.m. And it's only 8 So I feel like it will be fine. I'm working today Good times guys Here we go The Hawaiian shaved ice. This was the culprit this weekend. I think So nice everyone I feel like I'm too young again. I'm 23 It's like so crazy for the first time in 48 hours did not open a book for 48 hours guys. I was just It's not even that I was I went to brunch, but just like Like living life like Courtney Kardashian like you know what I mean living life I don't even really need this right now. I just feel like it's gonna make my workout better I'm gonna do a day lap Pilates class. She literally made me a playlist But I'm really excited for actually doing a live workout with your bars 8 or 10 a.m. Central on Friday I think this this vlog will be up by then I think if it's not it'll be have it'll probably be on the your bars Instagram page Very exciting my life as a fitness influencer, you know Worked out. I'm ready. It's actually like almost one. I think I had some calls I've been working I have some packages to open so here we are back with the vlog I have a revolve package in a bright seller package, which I'm actually working on from the podcast So I have a deal I'll link it below or I'll put the information below Oh, yeah, I forgot this was coming. I have wanted a pair of revised jeans for like the longest time. Oh My god, I got two pairs. I'm so excited. Well, I might actually change into these today Cute cute. I don't know if they're like too skinny though. We have a darker blue pair Okay, oh super eighties. Oh Love love these. Okay, very excited. I'm actually gonna change because these jeans right now. They're cute But they're a little bit too stretched out And my pants are falling off of my waist right now because I wore them for like two hours yesterday You know just gene problems. All right, just unbox and six bottles of wine guys It's probably gonna take me like a solid year to go through but they're really good to have for entertainment Anyways, I'm gonna talk about bright sellers a lot more on the podcast So I'm really excited for that and I also have a deal on code So if I I'll put it in the description if I haven't already the lights in a pair didn't fit These I can tell will fit. They're really comfortable actually especially like once they stretch out a second I'll probably give the light to them pair to my sister because she's a little bit smaller than me But really comfy actually really like them shopping for jeans like online is just the biggest constant struggle because I just never know I'm typically a 27 and I said 27 but in some jeans I want to go up because I want the fit to be more oversized and some of you know You know the whole thing. So anyways, I like these we're at Edelino Dom needed to do a little shopping I actually need to put things up too, but got a salad Bolognese And a calisthenes. Okay stopping at Lush or soft boring my favorite shoes, of course Just picked up two things at Lush. I'm gonna eat a leaf Have to stop at Sephora. I'm dying. I found these tank tops. I loved and I didn't have this out They have a chocolate brown beautiful. This stuff is actually cute. Wait Dom. I Think It's a karaoke mic. I need it for us. Yeah, I'm gonna get this Oh, it's the lighting Okay, I want to do a haul very quickly. I should have some cute things are urban and Our most most exciting purchase.  Yeah We're gonna have to charge us every night with my phone along with my phone That's a Bluetooth karaoke microphone and LED light up speaker So this is gonna give us really great times at my house that we already have but it's just gonna kind of like amplify You know then I got some cute tops at urban the first one I needed like good tight fitting tops because I had oversized ones that I just wore too much So this top it's so cute.  I don't know. I thought it was cute The next thing you guys already saw it's this chocolate brown They only had it in a large and I think it would probably be I probably be a medium or large in the top So hopefully it fits Really cute pretty tank. I really like just like a tank and jeans these days with my fun little slipper shoes I also got it in pink and the last thing I got Oh, I got an expansion pack the self-reflection expansion pack from not really strangers and Then I went to Lush and went to Lush got two things Let the good times roll this is a face and body cleanser it smells like you have this I don't know. Okay, just smell that but it smells better Smells really good The boys back in the day you see you said a lot and I go on to it from them then I have ocean salt which I Like had a bad reaction to this one time in high school So I stopped using it But I needed to exfoliate and that was the only one I saw there. So it'll be fine Like it was like my face on my body. Yeah Okay, I just want to try to get and see like it's an og product, you know Yeah, speaking of we went on like an old-school Taylor Swift kick Because I found out that Dom actually likes fearless. I do like fearless. I tweeted about fearless, you know I know I feel like I saw that I'll put it on the screen. Don't worry. Um, I just need to like I have so much energy It's this energy drink. I cannot I texted Molly because she drinks them. She's like, yeah I normally just drink half like, you know, that would have been a good thing to know in front because here I am wired Like it doesn't seem like I have that much energy, but like I could like yell and like, you know, scream shout let it all out. Yeah, so It's usually what the office like I'm usually like that and I'm like chill and now I'm like bouncing off the walls I need to go somewhere Dude, imagine if I drink one of those bad boys We should split it. All right guys, we're home. We've changed. It's later. We're gonna go to the rustic Dom had this smarg there yesterday And it was it was actually an out-of-body experience They're like our favorite people now. Yeah, I literally ascended into the third heaven. Yeah So anyways, we're gonna the rustic for dinner. We're just like restless. It's a weird Monday. Just need to go You know everyone happy. I think it's Tuesday Yeah, I don't know ever since I stopped being a grandma Life has just been wild and to bed really late last night I will take the dogs on a walk at 8 a.m. Gonna do a little workout This week is actually probably my least busy work week. I've had in like a Year not a year. I don't yeah, maybe so honestly, I just don't know what to do with myself But I'm about to think I was gonna walk listen to a nice podcast. I don't know what is up with this lighting I'll show you guys what I'm wearing. Okay. These are the line dupes from Amazon, they're $26. They're really really comfortable. I went back at them I originally have the size medium too big so I small I said small is better I would have even gone to like maybe an extra small. These are those tanks that everyone is obsessed with and a Brook loves them I'm on tech talk. I really really love these. They're great. All right guys. I took all my vlogs lately I like to be waking up working out working That's pretty much it and eat that's pretty much my life honestly, so Why isn't this working? I'm having some Google drama. I got a smoothie delivered to me this morning I had hors d'oeuvres credit I will link below my door doctor if you guys want $10 off food and delivery, but this is my order shower And I'm just wearing really cozy clothes today working from home I don't I like don't do well when I don't have a lot. I'm like, oh what is happening here? I got this shirt from Urban and I actually really don't like it But it's all I have and I need to do my laundry and it's really cozy These pants are revolve very cute and then my favorite shoes from revolve They'll like slippers actually shoes, but I wear them around the house as well. I'm working. No surprise I went on clubhouse. I sent out my podcast Episode I've been editing a vlog Dom's recording upstairs, so I'm whispering I got ready. I've also been like FaceTiming friends and stuff I feel like I was so so motivated and for some reason next week and last week we're like really booked this week is a lot lighter So I just don't know what to do with myself. I think I just do better under pressure I'm gonna do some like podcast back in stuff No one cares about this. I heated up my leftovers from the rustic. I meant to vlog the unboxing I just posted on Instagram story and forgot but more than friends just sent me the cutest set I think I'm actually gonna change into it like right now with scrunchies. It's cute candle slippers Also, the sets are just the coolest thing ever. I love them Yeah, that's cute though guys I got another pair of the $26 Amazon leggings also Remember how I never found the little limit-aligned leggings and chocolate brown. Yeah, they have them But they're on backward or so I order them and they come like wait They're more comfortable even when you put them on They're really yeah, and they're $26 That's crazy. I got a new juicy set So cute of course Well, it's not on the bottom Yeah, I hope that these Fit it's actually I probably should have gone smaller because pants always stretch That's just the worst part. You like put the fence on you can't breathe But then like six hours later. They fit you yeah, yeah, and then guys I got this Sarah Bell posted a tick talk about this But basically if you've seen these like cute sleeper sets, they're like $300 and Miss guided has them for 60 But so cute. I'll link it below and then Here we go. Just fun. Love that. I also got the new Dr. Amen book. I love him Your brain's always listening. So I'm really excited. I'm gonna read this this week. Hopefully I learned so much from everything that he says writes posts There's nothing else that I can say I love dr. Amen basically I'm very excited for his new book this Mike Yes, it's so much more than we could ever ask think or imagine Are you ready for the micro view? Yeah? No, right No, like no like it's no like why isn't it engraved Dom on the mind? That's your next birthday present This is I mean Like this is about to be the most popular thing at my house. I swear. What do we how do we charge it here? Which I have a charger there. I mean like guys This is us tonight. I'm never John. Wait, and you just is there any juice on it? No, I don't think Comment below your go-to karaoke song guest dogs We actually used to do karaoke nights in my house in LA I forgot Those were powerful they're very powerful Oh What do you have to say this we need to say for yourself, huh? Nothing Hey guys, thank you so much This is all that I care about no one can speak in the house unless they have the microphone That is such a fair rule Absolutely only makes sense new house rules new house rule. This is like what I record the podcast song Oh my god, what do you record on I send them this way? Yeah, I'm like have you ever heard of this thing along bling? This is fantastic perfect, I can't I'm excited to really test out the water so much footage It's gonna be a lot of footage Unfortunately, most of it is not usable, but we do record for ourselves. Yeah So 2.0, I wasn't even able because our vlog the whole last week our block the block last week was 51 minutes Yeah, without the karaoke. So since we posted it to Instagram, I just didn't even put it in the vlog. Yeah Would have gotten me demonetized anyways, so I think we're gonna stop at Lolland.  Fitz has training here? Oh? Yeah, I know. Let's go to Lolland. Do you don't want to go to Lolland? We go to Foxtrot Do you think they still have tacos? No, because it's breakfast tacos and they sell out. It's like offered It's fake. Yeah, let's go to Lolland. Okay, we're gonna go And then maybe I'll stop at Trader Joe's and get some snack Wall Fitz has training you can take my car. Okay. I'm just gonna make those returns Wow, I'm so excited for karaoke bro. I'm gonna be like Cuz when you're ready for a real quick song this this is it's about me right now Is it men's? international men's No, no your place. No, it's women's History month look at me. Oh, it's about women right now.  Okay. Can you say that? Can you say that bitch? Intersectional feminist. Thank you. Can you say that? Can you say that please louder a little louder for us? You want to say it into the mic here? Here It's gonna work Intersectional feminist. Oh, you want to share your testimony. Oh, I don't sure yet Well, I thought a church camp who wants to share their testimony. What if the God has done in your life? Look at Coco wants to share her testimony. I used to bark a lot. I Used to not have a lot of self-control Until God came to my life. Here's to my praying mother. She couldn't take it anymore This is literally gone right now guys. Oh the dogs have moved, but I'm a walking testimony See she got shot. Oh What happens to so many people is We have the volume turned up I'm listening to everyone around us and then we have the self-doubt in our heads of oh well Maybe I'm not qualified or maybe I don't have what it takes or maybe I don't you know Other people are way more advanced artists than I am or other that inner critic So we start to turn up the volume on our own self-doubt We start to listen to all the opinions of everyone else around us and before we know it We talk ourselves out of our own truth and this happens to so many people and In the book believe it like a big part of why I did it too is like I talk about the journey of How to love the circle around you, but how to turn down the volume on the stuff that's not for you and and that goes against the calling of who you are and who you're created to be and How do you add other people around you and turn the volume up on them? And even more than that is is the self-doubt and everything that we all experience in our own heads, right and I just feel like that self-doubt Sometimes in our own heads is a bigger opposition against us than the people out there rejecting us


From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Coupa Inspire 19, EMEA, brought to you by Coupa. Welcome to theCUBE, Lisa Martin on the ground in London, a Coupa Inspire 19, and I'm really excited to be joined by my last guest of the day, save the best for last. We have Rajah Hamoon, the EVP of products from Coupa. Rajah, welcome back to the program. Thank you for having me, thanks for coming here. Of course, it's been great, we've had a great day. Lots of buzz and excitement in the expo hall. The lights are dimmed, it's happy hour. So thank you. Perfect time for theCUBE during happy hour. So I know your keynote is tomorrow, so we'll get to that since we won't be able to cover that. But talk to me about some of the new product innovations that Coupa announced today. This last time we spoke at Inspire Las Vegas was only a few months ago, so what's new? Wow, a lot is new. It's hard to believe it's only been three months since then, it's been so fast. We very much continue our focus on our community-powered capabilities. This has been an incredible focus for us. So most recently, we've added to all of the announcements we talked about at Vegas, the next waves of source together, the opportunity to bring our community to come and source using their collective spent power. Lots of new enhancements in that area. And also, we're taking our supplier insights to the next level. One of the exciting capabilities our customers loved is that being part of a community member, I can come in and I can look at insights across all of my suppliers from the entire community. What we've been working with them on is constantly adding more and more information to that. So now we have diversity data. So you can come in and you can search for suppliers that meet your... Like women or businesses? Exactly, exactly. Those are increasingly becoming more and more important. And then we can help companies source with the right suppliers much more easily right off the bat. Other areas that we've announced today was Cooper Pay for Expenses in Early Access Program. We also announced Invoicing going on GA when we talked in Vegas. It was still in the Early Access Program capabilities. And opening up our platform, Cooper as a platform. Tell me about that, because I wasn't quite clear when Rob was talking about it this morning. I thought I want to dig in that with you. Cooper as a platform, what is that? What does it look like? So what's exciting about this is so from our inception as a company, we were always had this all in Cooper about being open for the entire ecosystem that our customers might have. Our vision has always been, we want to be ultimately the business screen for everything business spend management related for our customers. So over the years, we kept taking the level of openness with our partners through different levels, if you say, if you will. For example, we started with just integrations in the beginning and we certified these integrations with Cooper Link. We've taken it most recently where we allow partners to embed their mini apps within Cooper. So for example, you can see one of our partners, EcoVaris, now they have the capability to embed their supplier diversity data, sustainability data, right on the supplier record. And what's beautiful about this is that our customers, when they look at it, it looks at one beautiful unified experience and bringing all the data in context for what they want. Today this morning, Rob shared one example from Amadeus for trip integrations. So right on the homepage, I can see, right within Cooper, I can see all their bookings that I've done with the travel provider, my pre-approvals, expense reports, all within one unified experience. But ultimately what we want to take Cooper as a platform is to become this app directory that third party partners and platform developers start building applications to extend Cooper to bring more choice and value to our customers. Okay, wow. Is that one of the things I saw Rob share this morning was integration with Slack? Yes. So business folks can review, approve or reject, like expenses for example, right from within Slack without even having to go into the platform. Yes, yes, you hit on a very important concept, which we call the best UI is no UI in many ways. And the idea there is we always put ourselves in the user's shoes and ask ourselves, how do we get them what they need with the least friction? In some cases that might involve a user experience because you need to ask them a questions. In many cases we can automate the whole thing, so we just do it. And in many cases it means we go to them to where they are, such as in Slack. I'm going to ask you to leave Slack or somewhere else. Right then and there, you should be able to approve or reject why you have to go anywhere else. Is that what Cooper means by no UI is the best UI? Correct, best UI is no UI. So ultimately wherever there is effort, we want to involve people only when they need to add value, that's it. And as much as we're able to automate, that's great. So we take that off of their table. And we also adjust to the type of experience they need. Sometimes just a text message is enough. Sometimes bring the data to me into a collaboration application that I want. Sometimes we help them approve right from a button. You don't even go into Cooper in order to do that. So we're always thinking of how we drive adoption, and it's important concept, not just on the employee side of companies. It's even more so on the supplier side as well. Tell me how. When you think of any large organizations, they have tens of thousands of thousands of suppliers. Many have hundreds of thousands of suppliers. And the supplier ecosystem is everything from very small contractor, mom and pop, shop, maybe two people or even one person all the way to very, very large companies. So as you look at that whole spectrum, you have to really think what does every audience need? And so in many cases, these people, they may need to do everything very quickly, straight from an email without having to remember a user ID and a password to log into something. So it eliminates friction at every step of the process for them. Wow, so let's talk about the community insights. We look at some of the data that Cooper has gotten from finance leaders in the UK that was a survey that you guys did recently of 253 decision makers in finance and some of the numbers were glaring like, wow, 96% of these decision makers said, we don't have complete visibility of all of our spend. And then I was talking to a customer today who said, we've got now got 95% of all of our business spend going through Coupa and that was within less than a year. So the opportunity there to deliver that visibility and the insights back to the community is poked. It's incredibly exciting, it's incredibly exciting. We're starting to see more and more, the sentiment is definitely loud and clear and by working constantly on the A, the accelerated in Coupa we work on getting more and more of the spend for each and every customer, under management. When we start projects for customers right off the bat we use our AI classification tools before they even start with Coupa where we start helping them get visibility onto all of their existing spend so that as they start into their Coupa journey they are always looking at it holistically. So we normalize all of that data and provide them insights and reports right off the bat as well. Tell me about the customer interactions that you have as the EVP of products, lot of customers on the platform, a lot of data there, how are customers influential in the direction? Like for example, you know obviously I won't give a secret sauce, but for Coupa Inspire 2020 what are some of the things that we might see customers influencing in terms of your roadmap, the direction, partnerships? Yes, yes, in general the way we've always worked at Coupa with our customers and we call them like our community members really is a very incredibly tight partnership. We have three releases a year, January, May and September each of them packed with roughly about anywhere 70 to 90 new features and capabilities and all of these capabilities are touched either conceived by customers with customers or touched by customers in the form of working with them on early access programs, validation and all of that. And for me, one of my most favorite things I get to enjoy about working in SaaS and being at Coupa is that as soon as you are rolling out these capabilities and turning them on in the cloud, customers are using them. So even though like for example, right now my entire team has just finished the walkthroughs of all our May release for Inspire and when we come back from this trip we will start the design and definition. Often we might hear of new requirements that might come up and because we are in SaaS we're able to hear, adjust what it makes sense and actually be incredibly responsive to what we see. How do you do that? How do you look through all the different responses and correlate that data and determine what makes sense to stack rank in terms of priorities for new features and new capabilities? So it's definitely an art and a science for sure but there's a framework that we follow since the beginning and we continue to follow and continues to serve us really well which is always balancing between three drivers of customers' market and innovation. So the customer one is the obvious one of course where in many events like this and one-on-ones and online community we're talking to customers and they're specifically coming and asking for help in areas. Now we may not build the feature exactly as they asked but we listen to the pain beneath it and using the latest technologies we think of what is the best approach to solve the real pain that they have. So that's one part of the planning for every release cycle. The other is overall market. So for example, as we grow into more regions, newer areas, new spend categories, new adjacent powered applications that our customers are needing, we start expanding in that area as well. For example, we're right now in London. When I joined COPA back in 2012, we were just starting the entry into the EMEA market and a lot of the product capabilities were market-driven in the sense we were spending a lot of time on compliance and different regulations and all of that. And the third is innovation in what is always one of the things as we bring people on board at COPA and talk about the framework. Innovation for us is what we call pragmatic innovation and it comes from deep understanding what are the customer problems? What are the market problems? And then we ask ourselves using everything, the latest technologies, what is the best way? So you'll never hear us talk about AI for AI sake and blockchain and all of that. We're always talking about do we deeply understand the problem and what is the most appropriate? So we call them CMI, customer market innovation. Within my products organization, every product managers usually has a vision for their product and they have a four release roadmap. And in each four release roadmap, they are listing things as CMI. In many cases, the same capability is C and M and I. So it becomes an art and a science of balancing those types of things. But ultimately, when we look at a collective release of CMI, we're asking ourselves, how much does this release accelerate the success goals of our customers? Generally that's the framework that we use. Yeah, that's fantastic. Thank you for explaining that. In terms of acceleration, some of the numbers that Rob shared this morning were, I think your customers are collectively approving invoices 30% faster than last year. I said mid-sized market customers are going live on Koopa in about four months. And large enterprises in about eight months. And I've talked to a number of customers today about the speed of which they're able to get onto the platform and actually start seeing business value. So that A, for Koopa for acceleration, was well dissected today. Yes, yes, it's definitely, these are the vision areas that Rob talked about today. And in each of these vision areas, we're always asking ourselves, how do we continue to accelerate? So that's actually how one of the ideas was born around the turquoise and the hair. Which is, we want to accelerate cycle times, cycle times, and what are the different ways we can do this? Can we borrow from our consumer lives to do this? And that's where the gamification came. And sure enough, it was one of those things that got people super excited and they're putting more attention into it. Well, the consumer side of our lives is, we're so demanding, because we can get anything that we want. We can buy products and services. We can pay bills with a click or swipe. And so the B2C side, from a payments perspective, has innovated far more rapidly than the B2B side has. Correct, correct. A lot more challenge there on the B2B side. But as consumers, we want a simple experience. One of the customers I spoke to today said, when he was looking for technology, he said, I want something that looks like Amazon Marketplace, because from an adoption perspective, my teams will understand it. So that, the consumerization always interests me because we are those pretty much 12 plus hours a day. And to see how software companies like Koopa are taking and meeting the needs of those customers, obviously it's not an overnight process, gets people excited. It gets, it absolutely is. You're right, it always fascinated me also how I've seen so many companies, people almost have two personalities. Like they go into their personal lives, they have a personality, they go into their professional lives and like, oh, it's okay, it's like backend system, this and this and this. But increasingly the new generation is no longer tolerating and the drive is starting to find a shift and happen. So I think if I can have this in my personal life then, I need to be able to transact. This is the same way, why does it take 45 days? It shouldn't take 45 days. So last question for you, your keynote is tomorrow. What are some of the strategic visionary elements that you're going to leave the audience with? So I'm going to leave the audience with the key pillars of our strategy. Latest innovations we've done towards them and where we are taking them in the years ahead. One of the things I've always done over the years at Inspire is we always share a preview of what the community has been talking to us about and we're working with. And usually at the end of it, a lot of new community members might come in and ask to participate in some of the development because it means a lot to them for their own business. And then usually by the following Inspire, we start showing these things actually live and executed on. So the three strategic pillars I'll be sharing and talking about are all around the pipe that Rob talked about. How do I capture more and more spend under management? So we'll be talking about the consumerizing experiences, using voice use in KUPA, using visual recognition in KUPA. We'll be talking about new concepts around travel, around group cards, group line, all of it around the theme, focus on the end users and delight them, blow them away with consumer experiences. And then now that we do all of that, we can jump into the power users because we are increasing that spend under management. The theme by far is all around sweet synergy. Sweet synergy? Sweet synergy. This doesn't exist in the market. The market overall was all siloed applications. We're creating a new category and we've created these beautiful, elegant flows for our customers today, but there's also a wonderful long journey ahead in what we are taking it. Well, maybe we'll get to talk about sweet synergy at Inspire 2020. Absolutely. I would love to have you again. Excellent. Thank you for joining me on the program this afternoon. Best of luck on your keynote tomorrow and we'll see you the next Inspire. Thank you. My pleasure. Thanks. For Raja Hamoud, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE from KUPA Inspire 19 from London. Bye for now.