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Celebrity Co-Founders Not Required: Building Influence from Scratch

Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform that allows their community the ability to donate to a variety of organization and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal how they leveraged their networks to disrupt the charitable giving industry,…

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Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform that allows their community the ability to donate to a variety of organization and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal how they leveraged their networks to disrupt the charitable giving industry, from raising half a million dollars for the NFL in their first year to learning hard lessons about scaling too fast. They discuss the pivot from $10,000 golf tournaments to $10 sweepstakes entries, building trust with both celebrities and fans, and why your network is your greatest competitive advantage.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Meet the Founders: From NFL to Tech Startup
03:53 The $10,000 Golf Tournament That Sparked Everything
06:14 Navigating the Nonprofit-Tech Startup Hybrid Model
11:44 Leveraging Star Power: The NFL Partnership Win
15:34 Getting Athletes to Say Yes: The Trust Factor
19:06 When Identity Crisis Hits: Scaling Too Fast
27:59 The Mistake of Outsourcing Your Vision
30:00 Founder Market Fit: Your Network Is Your Net Worth
32:52 Key Takeaways: Building Thought Leadership Without Celebrity Status

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Xbox Mode for Windows 11: Why You Need This Update

Microsoft finally bridged the gap between PC and console. From a unified game library to improved performance, here’s how the new native Xbox Mode transforms your humdrum PC into the ultimate couch-gaming machine. Read more about it on CNET.com Xbox Mode Brings Full-Screen Interface to All Your Windows 11 Gadgets Microsoft’s Next Xbox Console Is…

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Microsoft finally bridged the gap between PC and console. From a unified game library to improved performance, here’s how the new native Xbox Mode transforms your humdrum PC into the ultimate couch-gaming machine.

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Xbox Mode Brings Full-Screen Interface to All Your Windows 11 Gadgets
Microsoft’s Next Xbox Console Is for Real, and It’ll Play PC Games, Too
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0:00 Intro to Xbox Mode in Windows 11
0:12 How to Activate Xbox Mode
0:19 Experiencing the Xbox Interface on PC
0:30 Recommended Settings: Launch on Startup
0:36 Comparing to Steam’s Big Picture Mode
0:42 Unified Game Shell: Steam, Epic, and Ubisoft Integration
0:51 Manually Adding Games to Your Library
1:00 Quality of Life Improvements and Navigation
1:10 Quick Menu and System Status
1:20 Performance Boost: Reclaiming System RAM
1:28 Quick Resume with Task Switcher
1:34 How to Exit Xbox Mode
1:43 Final Thoughts and Update Availability
2:00 Pro Tip: Using ViveTool for Missing Updates

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The F1 Paddock Has Become a Leading Place for Startups to Land a Deal

Founders and investors — the rich and the richer — increasingly mingle within a scene in search of deals. But we’re not talking about AI conferences, a Silicon Valley hub, nor a spot beside DC power brokers. It’s F1 races, and all the celebration and excess that surround them.

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Founders and investors — the rich and the richer — increasingly mingle within a scene in search of deals. But we’re not talking about AI conferences, a Silicon Valley hub, nor a spot beside DC power brokers.

It’s F1 races, and all the celebration and excess that surround them.

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Amazon’s Steve Schmidt on AI agents gone rogue (Live at HumanX) | Equity Podcast

AI may be changing how companies build, but it’s also changing how they get attacked, often by their own tools. Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt has watched threat actors at every skill level get sharper, faster, and harder to contain. The risk he’s most focused on, however, isn’t coming from outside the firewall. On…

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AI may be changing how companies build, but it’s also changing how they get attacked, often by their own tools. Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt has watched threat actors at every skill level get sharper, faster, and harder to contain. The risk he’s most focused on, however, isn’t coming from outside the firewall.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation Rebecca Bellan had with Schmidt at the HumanX conference in San Francisco. The two dug into what AI is already doing to the threat landscape and how Amazon is rethinking identity, containment, and human oversight to keep agents in check.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:05 How AI is leveling up threat actors at every skill level
02:16 The internal risk: shadow AI and the “open Claude on your laptop” problem
04:44 Agentic identity and why Amazon traces every action back to a human
07:18 Guardrails as an attack surface
09:50 Containment architecture: why agents should never run free
12:42 Human-in-the-loop and contingent authorization at Amazon
14:58 Security advice for startups: know what you have, label it early
18:35 Do startups actually need a CISO?
19:29 Outro

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