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Im an instinct founder. so every decision i make i have to bounce it against how do i really feel about this. if someone rubs me the wrong way, if theyre not a right partner for me, they have to make a decision. staoeufpls it is is a tough decision. >> blythe, congratulations on all the success stella and dot has had. it is truly amazing. you have seen this from the very early stages to being where you are. whats one piece of advice you have? >> so my top piece of advice is to really cultivate c...

And our design team came up with this amazing mural that made our office so much nicer. and someone came up with a fund birthday hat you would hang over people when it was their birthday, which helped with culture. i think that is a good way to do it. what do you think, blythe? >> yeah. i think youre touching on two really key things that you can do to cultivate creativity. one is around time management. so its really important to just carve out some white space like a hack-a-thon so your team h...

To find out that the 120 days didnt get the job done because we were waiting to figure out how the order could be properly enforced. and so, id be very interested in that. on the cyber front, director cardillo, i know among other things, your organization has conducted what youve called hack-a-thons, or at least been called hack-a-thons. what does that do in terms of bringing others into the discussion of how we protect ourselves better from these cyber attacks? >> sure. thank you, senator. so, ...

Within the science community. what exactly are they doing? >> its not just a movement. its a frenzied movement happening across the country. even in canada. we are talking about scientists and researchers at several universities there organizing hack a-thons to pull publicly available data from databases and transferring huge amounts of information to secure websites. the fear, the incoming administrations denial of climate change may mean data will disappear from government websites. >> we are ...

Is providing aid, but is it more useful than a college education? >> why not major in computer science at mit? >> if you talk to most employers, they feel theres a skills gap between what universities are teaching and what software engineers need to know day today. >> they focus on theory without giving the practical skills they need to build real projects. >> the trend you can watch is the collegiate hack-a-thon where you have 1,000 students giving up weekend and sleep and it feels broken for t...

>> i left wealth coin when we all parted separate ways. >> what? >> i dont live in san francisco anymore. i have come back to oklahoma to start working on my own projects. >> jackson doesnt give many details. i learned that the team members had different ideas about the direction of the company. simon an stephen are continuing to develop wealth coin without him. >> not a lot of space for clothes and furniture. >> they havent procured additional funding since leaving boost b.c. >> 10:17 a.m. and ...

Teachers, nurses and firefightes support prop 51. prop 51 will upgrade libraries, science labs, and classroom technology and relieve school overcrowding creating more opportunity . . . and better learning for students help students succeed vote yes on 51. hey, hackers. how many of you built an awesome project this weekend? >> the hack-a-thon is coming to a close. >> everybody give it up for stockpile. [ applause ] >> robot recycle. up there. >> jamess team didnt win

In the coming days theyll find out for sure if any of these investors will back their company. >> where do you think you will be six months from now? >> hopefully in an actual office with employees and moving to new york city. big city, exciting, lots of finance. we will have a place to live and hopefully bigger than where we are staying now. >> separate rooms. >> at the hack-a-thon in berkeley, the goals are more short-term. students here are just trying to make it through the weekend. only hal...

We will have snacks in 25 minutes.5 minute45 minutes. >> milk tea with boba. >> now its the hack-a-thon at uc berkeley. >> ill look up how to set up the parts. >> the communication with the website. >> that are can access from java script. >> james and his team are making headway with their app that allow people to use their phones to vote in political elections. >> its 11:30 p.m. saturday night. how is everything going? >> we are trying to get authentication. we can make sure one person equals ...

Before, but when you are in a room and you see people building stuff, of course you can do it. >> the 22-year-old is one of the founders of the student hack-a-thon movement. >> when did this culture evolve? >> about 3.5 years ago, i heard about it and there was about 50 people and it was awesome. at the end of that, we felt the need to start our own. people would come to the big hack-a-thons and say we need to throw this here. it has gotten much more popular. you have 10,000 kids applying for ca...