Zane Witherspoon: Entrepreneurship, Being Acquired, & New Art Foundation | Learning with Lowell 196

June 27, 2023

Zane Witherspoon Serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, Data rights expert, Shark onesie wearing coder,  and artist who moonlights as an DJ.  Second time on the show

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https://www.paloozafoundation.org/

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PODCAST INFO:

The Learning With Lowell show is a series for the everyday mammal. In this show we’ll learn about leadership, science, and people building their change into the world. The goal is to dig deeply into people who most of us wouldn’t normally ever get to hear. The Host of the show – Lowell Thompson- is a lifelong autodidact, serial problem solver, and founder of startups.

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzri06unR-lMXbl6sqWP_-Q

Youtube clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-B5x371AzTGgK-_q3U_KfA

Website: https://www.learningwithlowell.com/

Zane Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zanewithspoon/

https://www.paloozafoundation.org/

https://twitter.com/zanewithspoon?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/zanewithspoon/?hl=en

https://delphia.com/

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:40 Statue story of perseverance 

09:10 Marble desk, cat, and swivel chair 

09:55 Story as a parable for entrepreneurship 

11:40 Acquisition

12:45 Building own thing vs being on a team

14:00 Pursued vs being desired 

16:30 Acquisition in detail 

19:30 Painful aspects of acquisition 

22:10 Life in middle of an organization 

24:00 Lawyers in acquisition 

26:50 Starting a foundation / non profit organization

31:00 Money and non profits

32:30 Keeping self under limits 

33:09 Tickets and other events

35:11 Supporting writers strike 

37:30 AI, chatGPT regulation

39:08 Unions since the Reagan

44:45 Legislate out of problem 

47:00 Amazon and monopolies 

49:45 Induced vs muscle creativity

51:15 Animals at upcoming event

52:30 Non profit specialization Palooza foundation with others

55:15 Stage32 / linkedin for artists / idea for future

57:36 Trades, apprenticeships, learning events

58:55 Reece Witherspoon, Succession, event idea

01:00:30 Artist opportunities  / Dogpound consultancy 

01:01:55 Arts foundations and future of Zane

01:04:00 Reddit, twitter, API issues 

01:07:20 Recession, Netflix, amazon cutting business costs and bringing value to society 

01:11:00 ML vs AI vs statistics and real intelligence 

01:13:15 Trusting Data, Apple privacy model,  OpenAI and Elon Musk

01:15:55 Regulation of AI continued

01:18:30 Retreating Globalization and US perspective

01:20:50 Politics / new parties 

01:24:33 Sam Altman / OpenAI asking for regulation 

01:25:44 Blockchain, Delphia, and superset DAO 

01:27:32 Books recommendations 

01:30:20 Where to go to learn more about Palooza and Zane projects

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