Lovewig's research center, where he measures the true rate of unemployment, the true quality of life index

Cause our consumer confidence in sa index has been shit since Trump has taken office. JT O'Donnell (57:06.086) Independent thinker. There's a first. Joel Cheesman (57:08.477) Have we?

Independence Day is upon us and this week’s show is more exciting than an alien invasion, minus the Will Joel (12m 36s): And Josh Akers the "Indy Posse" celebrating a birthday happy birthday kids. 4th of July So let me quote, Index Ventures partner, Mark Goldberg, who said in a statement, quote “Compensation

Because at that point, people were just indexing on speed. I'll be honest with you. The company was indexing on speed. How do we grow as fast as possible?

22:15.805) you Joel (22:22.136) They're all going to listen to offers because of what's going on in Indy research preview of operator, a general purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently

You can leverage companies like us to process the initial data, building out your indexes, build out

Our platform indexes unprecedented amount of data about specialists working in these organizations, going So what do we decided to do is to connect the dots and basically index talent sitting in these organization Przemek: Well, the grand vision is to index the talent around the world, and make sure that we can have

the AI, which let's say for example, hireEZ or other competitors have built, is mostly around search index

And number two, indefinitely suspending a highly unpopular employee monitoring program that had sparked

Raj Ronanki (04:53.718) How is that any different than like indeed.com or LinkedIn.com, where essentially

sign the separation papers, which was all in the complaint, because the separation papers wanted me to indemnify

I'll pass it on to you how your summer's going, how your June was, July, and of course we s celebrated Independence

Anyway- [00:23:44] Maureen Wiley Clough: Indefensive [00:23:45] Dan Lyons: people, then people who, other And, and, and then over the years, over the t- 'cause it's, it's conducted by this company independent And most of us can't, you know, be independently wealthy, so we kind of need to have jobs as well. [01

JT ODonnell (04:55.758) They both, I independently set calls with them and said, here's what I'm trying And independently both were like, you need to cloud cowork, cloud cowork.

Yeah. 0:06:47.6 Rebecca Carr: And they are collecting that through an independent assessment that the

Yeah, and I think it's baked into American culture in some ways is this like we are we are such an independent place, the Declaration of Independence, and we talk about the celebration of our own personal freedom And there are lot of cultures around the world that independence is not celebrated interdependence is

Well, we can record transcribe, index, parse the conversation, hang up the phone.

So I was at another indie based tech startup company called Viral Launch. And then the fun part, I think we're spoiled in indie. No one really has that bad of a commute.

So the, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index came out, I think Friday of last week, it counted as unemployed, but then they're not counted as well, but, you know, they should be counted as independent

seeing this incredible bifurcation that in large companies, you are stuck with the usual suspects, but independent

So if you're an employer, make sure the vendors you use, what kind of indemnity or threats or dangers We can all say we all need independent audits, we need stealth audits, but then what? the word trick, I like the word optimize, you're making it as easy for a robot to read your resume, index

is just kind of this, this hot mess of putting people into these debt contracts and says you're an independent

It's also extensibility to our franchisees because these are independent business owners. have a lot of flexibility for them to manipulate them to satisfy the needs that they have as unique independent

Beijing and, know, maybe not going for democracy full scale in Hong Kong, but at least sort of more independence It sort of operates like Amazon, but it distributes books through your local independent bookseller.

We live in a global economy now, which is highly independent.

Taylor right after they announced that they were going to do the IND. We are an independent culture. That is what we're about. The less I need you, the better I'm doing. We all want to be independently wealthy, right? The American dream is not necessarily dreamy anymore. know, I mean, this independent culture, the free

technical business regulations that were occurring then and that will occur again, like dealing with independent

reporting, just the reporting alone, they were outperforming their competitors on the Dow sustainability index

directions that we were heading and can we alter them and come up with a new path forward that is not overly indexed

We’re talking more independent recruiters, slick Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) models, and enough

will. you haven't raised money. looks like you're bootstrapping this thing. are you, is your, you, independently

It means that, it's indemnified, I believe you can't get sued, right? Lord Nat Wei: And I think IBM is like one of the only companies in the world that's indemnified to have

Kevin Wheeler: And growing is people that are independent and want to stay independent. corporation from eight to five, we're going to lose those jobs, but we're going to gain a lot more jobs independent , working independently, working on their own schedules and using their own skill-sets the way they want

So this is our database that we have where we have looked at that, analyzed it, indexed it's the best

That is not clear delineation of church and state and an independent assessment.

One world I hadn't necessarily been independently yet.

So one of the key things around these laws is they are asking for an independent audit, almost every And so almost all of these laws are asking for an independent audit. So what does that mean? Hey, if you don't get audited by an independent third party, you got to pay a fine, blah, blah, blah.

If they're investing in individual companies, it's either through their accelerator or in my case independently

into the workforce, keep them at a job, doesn't work because that is such a huge trend of freedom, independence

[laughter] Chad: Declare your independence. 4th of July, gig economy, freelance economy. Didn't it make a little indent a couple ago?

We also use that information so these are fairly sophisticated queries that we look at index time to

So we ripped off as many best and we also paid about 120, 130 index and we also had cooler cars, whereas

we're excited to welcome Darrian Mikell CEO and co-founder of Qualifi.hr Chad (40s): Straight out of Indy Darrian (44s): Straight out of Indy. Thanks for having me on guys. Joel (47s): You're welcome.

We being, I'm gonna say Democrats, even though I'm an independent. So that's what I think happened.

That's why we wanted to have a chat with Bas van de Haterd, an independent consultant and entrepreneur

care about this a lot, we have a core metric called developer love, which we call DLI, developer love index for us to get to figure out, if in a way we can go public, in honest, but my goal is to build a large independent So that's my goal to build a very large independent company because they got opportunity here.

Joel (39m 8s): And independence. Because that's just who we are as human beings.

Is Google a parasite because they index everybody else's data for us to have a more affective search My ability to fight the appeal was completely independent of the success of ultimate failure of the crowdfunding

And, you know, the path to growth was you need to double hiring every year, year over year indefinitely

However, like plugging on their site that they're the world's first independently, audited ethical talent Joel (24m 22s): Is there someone playing in that space and I'm not sure who the independent audit was I don't think there's any independent AI program or business that I know of.