E888 Honor Seth Sternberg: care pros + ML for quality home care; raising $, execution & market risks
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E888: Honor CEO & Co-founder Seth Sternberg (prev. Meebo, Google) turns his tech expertise toward human betterment, combining care professionals with machine learning for quality home care; shares lessons as serial entrepreneur, raising money, assembling teams, navigating execution & market risks
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Show notes:
0:41 - Jason introduces Seth Sternberg.
1:43 - Seth talks about the inspiration for Honor and how home-care is an untapped market.
6:16 - The difference between founders who tend to be execution-risk vs. market-risk.
9:55 - Jason thanks sponsor Carta. Visit carta.com/twist to receive Carta’s cap table software and a free 409A valuation.
11:26 - What is Honor’s product and how do they deliver it?
21:27 - Seth on speaking to investors about breaking the gig-economy in a growing gig-economy.
23:12 - Jason thanks sponsor Skillshare. Visit skillshare.com/twist and get two months for just $0.99!
25:35 - Selling Meebo, developing ‘Sign in with Google’, and the eventual demise of Google+.
29:39 - Seth shares his thoughts on Google’s Dragonfly Project and morality issues in the world vs. America.
32:55 - Injustice and underestimating the service labor sector, and giving care professionals the credit they deserve.
36:55 - Scope of Honor, where it currently operates, and how Honor works with agency owners and the rest of the care providing industry.
40:11 - Jason thanks sponsor Breather. Visit breather.com/twist to receive a free full-day booking!
41:29 - Changes in Silicon Valley since 2005, dealing with investors asking for faster growth, and leveraging machine-learning to benefit care professionals.
50:39 - Since Seth is a pilot, the two talk about planes and flying mishaps that can occur (depending on poor practices and engines).
59:12 - Seth talks about the roadmap for Honor as being execution-focused, cost & demographics of care professionals, and tackling loneliness.