Sept. 12, 2018 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
08:13
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| Hey everybody! | |
| Come on in here. | |
| This will be a quick one. | |
| So I've got something that's sort of exciting. | |
| I hope it's exciting for you too. | |
| So as we're watching the Hurricane Florence approach the coast, and hoping everybody gets out of there, if you're anywhere near the hurricane, get out! | |
| Get out! Run for your life, or at least make sure you're very safe. | |
| But it made me think that my startup, WenHub, has somewhat accidentally designed a product that would allow anybody to be a An instant video reporter if they happen to be around the scene of any disaster or major news event. | |
| And I wanted to show you how easy that would be. | |
| So all you would need is the interface app that's free. | |
| It's in the Apple Store or the Google Store. | |
| Download it. It's free. | |
| When you open it up, it says you can be an expert or find an expert. | |
| If you want to be an expert, let's say you want to be a reporter who's on scene and can just point your phone at stuff and get paid for it. | |
| There's a place where you just put your expertise. | |
| Let's say you had to be on site when Florence was over, but there's still a lot of flooding. | |
| It's safe. You've got a cell connection. | |
| I hope you have a cell connection. | |
| And you're going to be there anyway. | |
| If you don't have to be there, don't be there. | |
| And don't go there just to take pictures. | |
| But what I'm telling you is, If you happen to be there, and there's something interesting, whether it's Hurricane Florence, or you happen to be at a protest, or there's something newsworthy, a big fire, for example, you could just go into the Interface by WinHub app, it's free, and just set your price. | |
| So you just type in, I will go live with you for $100 an hour, $25 an hour, whatever it is. | |
| And then in your expertise, just put in, in this case, Florence, Hurricane, Reporter. | |
| And you can also tap to update your profile and put in some more words about your on-site, and you could take some pictures if people want. | |
| Now, this product... | |
| It is made for one-to-one. | |
| So an individual can contact you and say, hey, I'd like to see what it looks like from somebody who's actually there on the ground. | |
| And yeah, I would pay. | |
| I'd pay $25 for that. | |
| I'd do that. Maybe just 15 minutes, but I'd pay $25 for that. | |
| And you hit it. If the other person answers, they're making $25 for 15 minutes of talking to you and pointing the phone and stuff so that you can see what they see. | |
| Now, there's nothing to prevent news organizations from also calling you. | |
| So you would imagine that a lot of large and small news organizations, they're always starved for new video. | |
| So when there's a disaster, they have their own cameras there, but they love it when they can get some submissions, somebody took some video, etc. | |
| And instead of going through the channels and trying to figure out, well, I took a video, but how would I get this to CNN or to somebody who would play it? | |
| Instead, just sign on to the Intervace app, put Hurricane or Florence or whatever the situation is as your expertise, and wait for people to call you. | |
| Now, if they call, they've got a few minutes of grace period before billing starts, so you can make sure that each other are real. | |
| But then at that point, you can charge CNN for calling your phone and pointing it in the direction of the fire. | |
| Now, they'd probably want to record it, and they wouldn't get a great picture because it would be off a phone, but they would definitely use it, or somebody would use it. | |
| So, we didn't make the product for this. | |
| It's really made for any situation where two people want to talk, they're not in the same place, and one of them has a good enough reason to charge the other one. | |
| So, it could be as simple as somebody charging to have lunch with you. | |
| You could just say, I'm available for a conversation. | |
| Let's have lunch. $20 an hour. | |
| Just turn on the phone and put it in front of your bowl of soup, and I'll talk to you while you're having lunch. | |
| So there's no limitation on how to use it. | |
| We branded it as being for experts, but expert for us means... | |
| For us, expert means whatever you have that somebody wants to see. | |
| Somebody wants to hear. | |
| So I think I'll keep this one short because I just wanted to get that idea out there. | |
| That if you use the interface by WenHub app, you can set your own price. | |
| And if you happen to be near something that's newsworthy, People will find you. | |
| If I see any of those Florence or Hurricane keywords, I'll probably call them myself, partly because I'm just testing the product and I like to use it as much as possible. | |
| So if you don't get a call from CNN, You might get a call from me, because I'll be looking to call in. | |
| But, you know, make sure you're actually on scene of something interesting. | |
| Yeah, so it's limited to one-to-one, but in the case of a news agency, they would know how to take the video off a device and broadcast it. | |
| You just have to give them permission, I would assume. | |
| I mean, you don't have to, but that would be good form if you gave them permission. | |
| So, someday we'll be one-to-many, but at the moment it's one-to-one, and a news agency would know how to take their end and broadcast it. | |
| So, To answer your question about censorship, I'll just give you the big picture. | |
| The interface app was built so that you can pay in crypto, our own crypto, called the WEN, which you can purchase. | |
| I'll have to talk more about that later, but some of the WEN comes with the product, so the moment you sign up, you've got some for free. | |
| Those do not go through a bank. | |
| So if you're paying with the cryptocurrency and somebody has agreed to accept it, they have to accept either cash via a credit card or crypto or both. | |
| But if they accept it, then there was no bank in that transaction. | |
| So that's your general answer to the censorship question. | |
| Otherwise, it's a private call. | |
| So it's the same censorship that FaceTime would have. | |
| It's the same censorship as a phone call would have. | |
| It's a private call between two individuals. | |
| So we would hope that people do legal things, but we're not going to be watching your call. | |
| All right. And I remind you that earlier today I banned Alex Jones from the Interface app. | |
| He can still use it. | |
| Just don't tell me about it, Alex. | |
| I thought it would be good publicity if I banned him, so I'm banning the hell out of him. | |
| I'm banning everybody I can ban if I can give some free press. | |
| Alright, but Alex, you can still use it if you want. | |
| Alright, I'll talk to you later. |
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