Crazy Wisdom
Why you should reach out to strangers you admire online - Rodney Gainous Jr.
- founder
- online
- networking
- tech
- SanFrancisco
- strangers
- LSD
- corona
About this episode
Rodney Gainous is the founder and CEO of Safe, a company dedicated to providing more easy-to-use privacy tools for individuals and businesses. In this episode, we discuss the changes Corona has wrought, the importance of sending cold emails, the importance of location for networking, and much more. Enjoy!
You can reach Rodney on Twitter at Rg2official.
(7:59) Do you need to move to the Bay area, or tech hubs in general, to be able to fully chase your dreams of working in tech? What are the merits of doing so? Can you run a tech startup from any location?
(11:09) Even if you choose to run your tech startup from outside a tech hub, is an experience of the tech hub necessary or helpful to have?
(15:01) The difference between knowing a lot about a place and actually living in a place.
(16:56) How to build a network in today’s Post-Covid world, despite all the restrictions posed by lockdowns.
(19:58) Why you should learn to reach out to strangers, founders and people you admire, online more often. (Hint: a lot of them are more open than you think)
(20:41) What is the value of being open in the business world, especially as a founder?
(25:15) Is it good to be upfront about what you want when interacting with a stranger you want something from or are you better off building a relationship first? Where is the line? What is the right way to go about it?
(29:43) A tip to help increase the open rates for your cold emails.
(37:02) As a tech founder, how should you treat hype? Both hype of your company and external tech-related hype that generates FOMO?
(47:51) Why is Miami receiving so much hype? Apart from it potentially being the new base for Silicon Valley.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom. Which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both acceleration as technology accelerates and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with this show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself, because we can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter to Stuart Allsop. I, I, I. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how the show has affected you. Thanks. Have a great day.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Guest today is Rodney Gayness. He is. He was a teen hacker and he's now a founder of Safe and Safe is building privacy tools to help people prevent hacks, people and businesses. And he made over 200k selling hacks for a game called Runescape. And so really excited to have you on, Rodney. How are you doing?
Cool. So what is again, we go really random with it. So there's this term that I really like. There's this term I really like to use called emotional flavor. And it comes from a Sanskrit word called rasa, which means emotional flavor. And so, like, everything in the known universe has an emotional flavor. What is the emotional flavor of your experience right now?
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