#45 - Drones Washing Windows, Airpod Guided Tours & Mario Kart VR with Furqan Rydhan

Furcon is here in the house. How's it going, guys? What's up? So background, who's Furcon? Furcon is uh my co founder, CTO at Bebo before we sold. And uh we've been working together I don't know, five, six years now, maybe six, seven years. Yeah, it's getting towards seven, I think. It's one of those things where you just keep saying five years er you know, no matter how long it's been. But he has an interesting background before that. Very good background. You wanna give us like the Give the highlights. Alright. The the highlights, uh I grew up here in the Bay Area, uh I got started uh just programming as a kid and so I had a unique experience where I worked at a dot com when I was fifteen.

Um and that was kind of like Were you going to high school at the time or did you drop out? Uh I was going to high school, I had just finished my sophomore year and I was really into computers and my dad was like, Hey, I know this guy, they need to hire some people. They're looking to make like a website at the time. Uh they had a router for hotel rooms. So it was like hotels wanted to put in DSL and kinda like good internet. And they were like, Oh you gotta we need to this interface like the Link Sys interface for your router now. Just the HTML side of things. Yeah, and HTML at the time was really nothing. It was like you could put some stuff and I showed my dad how to make a menu and he was like, Wow, this is like groundbreaking. There's no JavaScript. How much were you getting paid at fifteen to do this? Uh if I had worked the whole year it would have been about a hundred and twenty K. Wow. This is dot com boom. Dotcom boom, probably because they're hiring fifteen year olds, but you know.

And then uh that happens then you did uh e commerce thing. Yeah, and so that company didn't work out, obviously not spending money. Paying fifteen year olds a hundred twenty K. Exactly. And so I kinda was back at High school and then I'm bored and I'm really into comput and gaming and You know, I had this idea that like, hey, people like to kinda trick out their cars, like they like to put lights and

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