2:15- Early childhood- loved to build and make things
3:30- Entrepreneurial spirit
4:30- Beta testing for the family
5:31- Do you come from a tech savvy family?
6:27- Early adoption of the computer
6:51- The beauty of having two phone lines
9:10- Chores before play. Work smarter, not harder.
10:30-Breaking things down into small tasks
11:00- Project-based education
12:00- Montessori schools and time management
12:45- Procrastination
14:00- Sparked interest in high school making web pages
15:05- Starting with web design and switching to programming
18:30- The move to San Francisco, working for startups, and being recruited to do first startup as a founder
19:07- Pownce- Approached by Daniel Burka & Kevin Rose needing someone to build this idea “I didn’t know I could actually build it but I was like ‘I’m sure I could figure it out!’”
20:56- Moving from Minnesota to the Bay Area and connecting with a Silicon Valley well-known culture
20:27- “The Vloggies” and networking
22:40- Common mentality amongst engineers, designers, founders, etc.; Blind optimism. “Sure! I’ll figure it out”
23:20- Selling Pownce
24:37- Acquisition by Six Apart and working there for over a year
24:50- Left Six Apart to build an iOs app leading up to SXSW then continued doing contract work
26:00- Started Convore- 2nd startup- with Eric Florenzano
27:00- Working for yourself vs. working for someone else
28:43- Learning how to be a better employee as a Founder
29:37- Breaker started as a side project then eventually “came to be”
31:15- The difference from now and 10 years ago
32:35- “I want to have a crazy idea and then see the idea exist in the world in some form”
33:40- Life Stages
35:40- Podcasting and it’s recent resurgence
38:02- Breaker’s take on finding podcasts
38:55- What keeps bringing you back to social based products?
40:20- Social aspect of the internet
41:26- “The internet itself is inherently social. When you’re connecting machines, you’re connecting people”
42:30 — The next year at Breaker
44:50- Biggest barrier to podcasting becoming more mainstream
How to reach Leah: Leah Culver, Twitter, Breaker (Leah)
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