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Turner Novak is a former banker turned Twitter / meme influencer with 170K followers, and has built that account into an empire with newsletter, podcast, and early stage investment fund Banana Capital. Through the fund Turner has made 50+ investments, including companies like BrowseAI, BinStar and Chaingaurd. During our conversation Turner explains the meaning behind the Banana Capital name, how a single Twitter account was the jumping off point for all of his businesses, and where he thinks we are in the investment cycle.

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Connect with James and Daniel!

• LinkedIn:
  • James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesborow/
  • Daniel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldruger/
• Twitter:
  • James: https://twitter.com/jamesborow
  • Daniel: https://twitter.com/ddruger

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Patrick Harris is the President of Americas at Snap where he’s brought his 10+ years of experience from Meta and 5+ years from Microsoft. Hear what it was like building the organization at Meta and what he’s bringing to Snap to change the culture and advertiser experience. Patrick talks about the misconceptions that the market has about Snap, how it has turned a corner on performance / DR, and how Snap continues to lead the market when it comes to consumer experiences.

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Connect with James and Daniel!

• LinkedIn:
  • James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesborow/
  • Daniel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldruger/
• Twitter:
  • James: https://twitter.com/jamesborow
  • Daniel: https://twitter.com/ddruger

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If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.

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Rajan Vaish is the founder and CEO of Easel, an AI-powered app that lets you create scenes with your AI avatar to express yourself with friends in fun and imaginative ways, all directly from iMessage. Prior to founding Easel, Rajan was a senior research scientists in Snap Research's HCI Group working on projects across AR, smart glasses, and social computing. During our conversation Rajan shares his story going from academic research to Snap, how a research mentality is critical for founders, and why the next wave of social will be built alongside generative AI.

Download Easel at https://easelapps.ai/

Check out Rajan's research: http://www.rajanvaish.com/index.html

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Connect with James and Daniel!

• LinkedIn:
  • James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesborow/
  • Daniel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldruger/
• Twitter:
  • James: https://twitter.com/jamesborow
  • Daniel: https://twitter.com/ddruger

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support us. And subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.takinginventorypod.com/ and follow Taking Inventory on LinkedIn and Twitter!