The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303
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Today’s show:
In this double-header, Jason and Lon chat with Louis Phillips, founder of the gamified running app INTVL, which turns a quick job around the block into a worldwide turf war competition. Find out how he grew the app to over 1 million downloads without any paid ads, just making videos from his home office.
PLUS Alex sits down with Alice Zhang, CEO of Verge Labs, which pivoted from making drugs to building the AI infrastructure that helps pharma companies develop their own treatments. Find out how they accumulated one of the world’s largest proprietary brain datasets and why brain tissue is the “LiDAR of neuroscience.”
Guests:
INTVL: https://www.intvl.com.au/
INTVL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intvl.app
Louis Phillips on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisphillips12
Verge Labs: https://vergelabs.com/
Alice Zhang on X: https://x.com/AliceXinliZhang
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Timestamps:
0:00 Louis on building in Melbourne, Australia
7:16 Why INTVL ignores how fast you run
9:31 Agree - Stop chasing invoices at https://agree.com and tell them Jason sent you to get 50% off for life!
15:24 Using gamification for good
18:42 Powering INTVL's impressive growth
19:27 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at https://quo.com/TWiST
25:48 The future of TWiST Australia
26:46 Will AI ever cure cancer?
27:26 Inside Verge's rebrand
30:03 Superhuman - Get AI that works where you work. Unlock your Superhuman potential at https://superhuman.com
31:33 Brain tissue as "ground truth"
35:33 Why brain tissue is so valuable as data
43:24 Verge's Eli Lilly partnership
51:06 "You're going to tell me when I'm going to die"
55:43 How AI could impact drug prices
57:51 Clinical trial FAILS and how to move on
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