If back in 2005 someone would tell us that a complete stranger would pick us up in his car to take us where we wanted to go, or that people would rent a room in their house to a stranger they met online from the other side of the world, we would probably don’t believe it. Still, Uber and Airbnb are companies fully integrated into our lives nowadays. 

The service our guest, Bob Miles, offers is perhaps as disruptive as the businesses mentioned above, but that will most likely become commonplace for most gamers in the next couple of years. 

Bob Miles is the Founder and CEO of Salad Technologies, a company that offers gamers rewards for sharing their idle PCs. Bob also co-founded caMetric, an IoT startup; he worked as Product Manager at Proxima and Head of Product at Teal Drones. 

In this episode, we delve into Bob’s fascinating journey into technology and entrepreneurship. Bob shared his experiences developing a waste-powered fuel that became a sailing adventure around Australia, filmed and produced by Netflix. We also talk about managing a company, hiring and letting people go, the relationship between younger generations and digital assets, and the pros and cons of having technology so ingrained into our lives. Bob also talked about Salad Technologies’ mission, goals, the projection for the following years, the metaverse, and much more. 

Resources:

Visit Salad Technologies website: https://salad.com/

or connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesbob/

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Full Episode Breakdown:

1:56 – Bob talks about his past, his first job, and the project that ended up as a Netflix series.

6:01 – Bob shares the details of how he came up with the idea of generating a wasted-powered fuel. 

11:23 – John and Bob talk about how confident prospects in an interview could get a job they are not entirely prepared for and how to deal with this from a company’s owner perspective.

16:43 – John and Bob discuss how hard it is to hire the right people and what kind of troubles companies face after letting go of an employee who is not meeting the expectations the job requires. 

19:27 – Bob explains how hard it is for Venture Capital financed startups to live by the “present pain for future gain” mentality.

28:01 – John and Bob talk about the pros and cons of having a life dependable on technology and how we can find a way of using it to maximize human productivity.

32:13 – Bob talks about Salad’s business model and how hard it was to apply traditional business models into a completely new and different business.

38:52 – Containerized technology. Bob explains in detail what is the service Salad Technologies offers.

45:25 John and Bob talk about the paradigm change the invention of digital scarcity produced.

50:09 – Bob shares his vision on where he sees Salad Technologies in the following years.