EP 293 · 50 min · 07 December 2017
Debo Olaosebikan - Serving Billions
Debo Olaosebikan talks with Dave Rael about shooting for the stars, lessons from physics, learning from mistakes, thinking positively, and delivering solutions
Debo Olaosebikan is the CTO and co-founder of Gigster. He worked formerly at IBM where he worked on theoretical/computational frameworks for analyzing experimentally observed transitions in spin transfer devices in collaboration with Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Barbara Jones He has a Ph.D. and Masters from Cornell where he worked on building world's first electrically activated silicon laser. Hme went from Nigerian rapper to co-founder of high flying Silicon Valley startup in just three short years and was a part of the Y-combinator class of 2015.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Debo Olaosebikan
- - Sources of Debo's lofty goals
- - Physics in Nigeria and Debo's scientific origin
- - Debo, the poet and musician
- - The intent and implementation of Gigster
- - Gigster and dealing with uncertainty and innovative ways of using data to manage risk
- - Debo's role as Gigster
- - The impact of building technology
- - Roles in creation and the importance of authenticity
- - Debo's story of failure - going too general in building a network
- - Debo's book recommendation
- - How Debo stays current with what he needs to know
- - Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Debo
Resources:
- Gigster
- Gigster on Twitter
- Gigster on Facebook
- Newton's Law's
- Relativity
- Richard Feynman
- Lev Landau
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Volume Set) - Richard Phillips Feynman
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics - Leonard Susskind
- Roger Dickey - Gigster co-founder with Debo
- TaskRabbit
- Grand Unified Theory
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
Debo's book recommendation:
Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Have an attitude of anything is possible and start from a positive lens
- Think before you build
- Work backward from the impact you want to make