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Been wanting to create some quick profile pics, but I havenāt really fleshed out all main and supporting and chatizens. For now, Iāll give you the main. Still havenāt gotten all the other chatizen profiles done. Nor do I plan to in the future.
warning lots of profiles to skim through. Not all of them are fleshed out.
Terrence E. Coyote (middle name Egnacio)
ChibiRoom handle: Techy-mancer2772
Age: 25
Species: Anthro Coyote? (his dad hasnāt confirmed if heās part wolf)
Close colleagues call him Terry. His friend Rev will call him Ter (pronounced Tear, as in ātear it all upā). Youngest prodigy in science and engineering. Already 2 PhD and current researching scientist at Acme Technical University. Has been going through a shut-in gremlin phase about 4~6 months ago.
He just finished up his last contract deal that has freed him from college debt, especially after the debacle involving an undergraduate intern. So heās gone into a pseudo-gremlin mode by indulging in all of the nerdy stuff heās deprived himself of; including anime, cartoons, shows, movies and video games, personal sci-fi prop making, reading books, comics, graphic novels, and going to sci-fi or comic conventions.
Terrence is an introvert by choice and isnāt very social. So heās socially awkward, and tries to hide it behind a professional facade. Unfortunately, he comes off as standoffish, aloof, and a bit arrogant. Only because he holds himself to a high standard in the pursuit of science and using science for good things. Has a few inventions and breakthroughs tied to him. But heās best known to be a collaborator, despite how obsessive he is with research and the details.
Joined āRetro-techā chibiroom since he has grown up retro-fitting or making old tech work.
Creon Gilead
Age: 24 (going on 25 eventually)
Species:Publicly Human. Latent Mutant status hidden for now
Sous-chef and assistant manager to the Leghorn building cafe that she started when she first worked as a barista at the coffee bar. Also overworks a lot with side hustles, her main job, and community/volunteer work. Loves motorsports, hover-board racing, roller skating.
Adrenaline junkie and adventurous. Quite reckless and has a YOLO mentality. She tries to keep an open mind to new experiences. Sheās multi-lingual due to her life experience and time in the military, and living in the Crater. Her life hasnāt been kind, and she is both lucky and unlucky with whatever wild scenarios that happen near her. Creon is a glass-half-full type of girl who always strives to be the best version of herself. Which means doing her best to be kind in a cruel world.
Despite trying to be honest and true, sheās a bit cagey about her past. Nearly abstained from dating/romance for 2 years. Until Terry literally fell into her lap one night on the train. Sheās unaware that the chatizens of the Retro-tech Chibiroom refer to her as āSnow White.ā
Revel R. Runner (middle name Reginald)
Age: 24
Species: Anthro Roadrunner
One of the undergrad students who got lucky with interning under Terrence, despite Terrenceās vehemence against taking on another intern. Goes by Rev most of the time. He prefers it. Rev was the only one to pull Terrence out of his shell, most of the times. Rev is the only one who can keep up with Terrence, or at least understand him when they work together. And Terrence is able to keep up with Revās speed-talking. Rev has made it his mission to keep Terrence from becoming a cyborg in the possible future. Rev thinks Terrence needs to live a little and not let science be the sole reason for existence. Also works as a researching scientist and engineer alongside Terry.
Alex Bunny
ChibiRoom handle: Black-Ace-Kazma
Age: 24
Species: Anthro Bunny
Works as one of the personal trainers and instructors at the Acme Tech campus gym and recreation center. Later on, Alex will become Terrenceās personal fitness coach. Also someone who likes to watch really old school movies or films.Ā Heās a martial arts nut so he has an old collection of Kung-fu film dvd/blu-ray sets. These were passed down from either an old relative or grandfather. Some even on VHS cassettes. So Alex also knows how to use antique projectors, VHS, DVD & Blu-ray players. Later on, Alex will figure out Techy-mancer and Terry are the same, but wonāt reveal this at all. He silently enjoys the shitshow and continues to encourage Terrence with the pursuit of personal and physical growth. Alex sometimes does some stunt work for films or tv.
Lexi Bunny
ChibiRoom handle: Loola_Honey55
Age: 23
Species: Anthro Bunny (distant cousin to Alex Bunny)
One of Creonās besties. Met Creon when they were both auditioning for TV extras. Marketing Research specialist for a fashion company that caters to anthros. Lexi is gregarious, ambitious, and quite bubbly. But Lexi can also be ambitious, hard-working, and introspective when she needs to be. On spare time she takes care of her plants, tiny garden, and streams playing video games. Sheās also a fashionista who likes to take thrift-store clothes and fix/spruce them up for herself. Lexi joined chibiroom asking for advice on integrating old consoles, emulators, or stream setup. But mostly the video games, since she likes to explore old-school games ranging from late 90s, and early 2000s. Plus, she likes some of the older consoles and games.
Ripley R Runner (middle name Roland)
ChibiRoom handle: RippingW!r3z226
Age: 22
Species: Anthro Roadrunner
Revās younger brother. Moderator of the Retro-Tech Chibiroom. Actually working on his own apps and software in spare time. Secretly wants to get approval from dad and take over family business. Due to a lot of time in the Retro-tech chibiroom, heās made a few programs, mods, and even inventions to help the group. Has tested them out. Lexi was the first guinea pig to test out programs or plugins for her stream and video game setup. Rip may seem slow-speaking, quiet, and aloof, but heās just as smart as his big brother. Maybe even smarter, especially in certain departments. Rip has that perfect balance of being business savvy, entrepreneur, and software engineer and inventor.
Tina Russo
Age: 26
Species: Anthro Duck
Another one of Creonās besties. Met Lexi through Creon. They too are besties. Tina is down-to-earth, blunt, feisty, and street-smart. Tina can be brutally honest, especially during the early days of befriending Creon. Itās thanks to Tina that Creon started developing a no-nonsense attitude and was able to set boundaries for herself. Family came from Italian immigrants. Does construction work in modular housing. Has always liked building stuff as a kid. Helped her dad out a lot in his plumbing and handyman work. Has a degree in architecture. Transferred to Acmetropolis from home in New Jersey to work with a real estate company that is undertaking a city renovation project.
Daniel Duck
ChibiRoom Handle: Duck_Dodgers_livedangerous
Age: 24
Species: Anthro Duck
Is kind of a pessimist and a conspiracy nut. Heās really paranoid about how the government is using current technology as surveillance. A bit short-tempered and comes off as delusional or egotistical. Deep down heās just a lonely, insecure guy who got done dirty by the child foster system. So heās had to grow up a bit street-smart and cynical. The āRetro-techā chibiroom is the only place he sometimes finds solace in and the first place he consults in regards to retrofitting some old gadgets to work. That and heās kind of a lonely duck trying to cope with his unfulfilling mundane life.
Samuel D Tazman (middle name Denver)
ChibiRoom handle: Slam-Taztic-devil
Age: 28
Species: Anthro Tazmanian Devil
A local wrestler who works in construction work and welding during the day. Sam is actually chill and respectfully polite in real life, which tends to clash with other peopleās perception of Tasmanian Devils. Sam is very fond of good food and happens to know which local food venues are best. Joined āRetro-techā chibiroom for adapting some tech for his big hands.
Oberon_Maestro67 (chatizen)
Species: Human
A music enthusiast, musician, and loves performing or going to music concerts. Absolutely hates the idea of AI music overtaking normal organic music. Has offered a lot of audio tech integration advice and music recommendations.
T!meSk!pper136 (chatizen)
Species: Human
About high-school senior whoās kind of lonely but loves making models and gunpla or making robots for bot-fighting. Lives with grandpa, who is an acclaimed professor and expert on theoretical physics and time. For now, he takes solace in the Retro-tech chibiroom.
Sylphair375 (chatizen)
Species: Human
A bitter, pessimist who seems to like being a naysayer and bringing up the worst case scenario. Is actually a recovering athlete who is bitter about how his athlete career barely started after a bad accident and injury.
Cloudy-chance-185 (chatizen)
Species: human
Currently a news anchor intern working under Misty DeBreeze. Actually went to school to study weather and meteorology. Part of a small collective of volunteer weather watchers collecting local weather data for climate change studies.
Massivechad305 (chatizen)
Species: human
Just a guy trying to go straight while living on parole. Had been jailed for some time for burglary. Participating in a new parole rehab program which was experimental and difficult. Joined chibiroom to get help and resources for retro-fitting tech that accommodated his size. Doing odd-end jobs here and there. Training to get a welding license.
Wac-gran20K (chatizen)
Species: human
Creonās next-door neighbor, enjoying her well-earned retirement with her pet canary, Tweety. Sheās already aware that Creon is āSnow Whiteā that everyone in the Retro-tech Chibiroom chat likes to talk about. She just chooses to not reveal this secret and just watch the drama unfold. Granny is the definition of āsweet little old lady.ā
Yeah there are other side characters, like Zadavia and others who are also chatizens or just regular citizens living normal lives. But I donāt think Iāll get into them now.
#loonatics unleashed#lutrainman#tech e coyote#creon gilead#ace bunny#rev runner#lexi bunny#danger duck#slam tasmanian#rip runner#tina russo#the looney toons show#character profile
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Sketch a Day 1550- Quickie Techie- 8/3/19
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Asks: 4 (or yāknow ~believe~ in), 11, 24
4. which cryptid being do you believe in? I'm still holding out hope that Bigfoot/Sasquatch is real. I mean, there are all these stories from Native and First Nations traditions that match a lot of "popular" concepts of Bigfoot. Like, there's something that matches here and I'm curious as to what it might be. After all, it turned out the moai on Easter Island really did walk to their places, and indigenous people in North America learned how to make maple syrup from Squirrel, as they always said. It's us white people who keep doubting people who actually know the truth.
Ironically I heard Coyote Peterson, who I do like, claimed just a day or two ago that he found a giant primate skull in Canada. A lot of people are saying it's fake but I'll admit that I want to believe.
I'd really like unicorns and winged unicorns to be real, but that's because I am still a 6 year-old girl on the inside.
And I guess "fairies stand to reason."Ā People around Tumblr sure insist they've had experiences with the fae, so maybe? I donāt get cool experiences like that.
11. favorite extracurricular activity? I was a techie--that is to say, I was on the tech crew, the backstage crew--throughout high school. We did a play in the fall semester and a musical in the spring semester and rehearsals took most of the semester. But, man, the shenanigans that techies get up to backstage. We tormented actors by putting dumb shit around the stage, hiding a blow-up doll in the rafters, taping potatoes up under the top bunk of sets of bunk beds, hiding hand-drawn Gisnep pornography in stuff, writing rude notes like "Oh embrace me, you big jiggly sack of man-pudding!" in things... We had inside jokes, we had drama, we stayed up too late, we went en masse with the actors to see Rocky HorrorĀ after the Saturday night show...
Sometimes we needed that stuff: one year, we put on Playing for Time, which is set in a concentration camp and it's rough. It's rough. And we had to sit through it over and over and over. So when we could do dumb shit, it often served as a kind of pressure release. There was a tiny backstage area where actors could change during that show, but it was close enough to the stage that we had to light it with a red lightbulb and the running joke was something like "wow, a red light and people taking their clothes off?!" So we wouldnāt joke about anything related to the content or the seriousness of the show, but anything else we could laugh about we would.
I can't recall if that was the show where the tech director and the props master (both female) were both chasing after the same guy on the props crew (who looked strikingly like David Boreanaz in Buffy). The tech director was doing stuff like claiming her telex (kind of like a plugged in walkie-talkie so she could talk to the stage manager who was up in the sound booth) wasn't working, so she needed the regular walkie-talkie. This was mostly so she could try to go make out with the Angel lookalike. Of course, the props master wasn't having that because she thought of herself as a real Buffy superfan. So she would try to get him to hide out with her under the props table. That left, um, me to run the props for a lot of the rehearsals. And then they kept these shenanigans up even during the shows. I guess I was honorary props master since the real props master was occupied. High school, man.
But we had fun. It was a real bonding experience, you know? The tech crew liked the actors, mostly, and the actors liked the tech crew, mostly. But we were very much two different groups. It felt like the techies were all the same kind of gremlin creatures hiding in the shadows, trying not to be seen, but very busy doing strange and mysterious things all the same. We were just as eccentric as the actors--like the sound guy who wore a plaid cabby hat every day and a blue terrycloth bathrobe; he had worn a black trench coat all the time, but school admins made he stop that after Columbine, so he got this thrifted men's navy blue 70s-80s terrycloth bathrobe and he wore that like it was a trench coat. I was an early anime kid who was obsessively reading the "Battle Angel" manga (this was 1996-2000). We had a couple of stoners on the crew, of course. We had the Buffy superfan mentioned above. We had a goth who became an actor and played Amaryllis in The Music Man. Our tech director got nicknamed "Bastard Amber" after a lighting color because her name was Amber and she just leaned into it. I think she's the one who drove the Karmann Ghia with the license plate "007DRNO" which looked unfortunately like "007 Drano."
I dunno, we were kind of weird, but maybe that's what made us hang together. So no sports for me, no real clubs (though I was a member of Latin club even if I could only go sometimes due to rehearsals); just tech theater.
24. if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing? Come hang out on a rooftop with me right here...
Ask me things, if youād like?
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sasha and tim r like, the most furry of the archives crew. itās a minor hobby for them, they go to the occasional con together, maybe once every year or two. w/ timās sewing skills and sashaās tech skills they made personal suits for themselves. timās fursona is a coyote. mostly browns with maybe one bright accent color, maybe purple. his suitās a toony partial with 3d eyes. itās well made but not extravagant. sashaās fursona is an illegal primagen. her suit is a snazzy as hell partial, proper led screen face/cheek/forehead panels, ledās all in the claws and down the tail. high tech as shit
martinās a furry but heās like, kind of embarrassed about it. doesnāt do any irl furry stuff but heās got a fursona and lurks on some furry communities. his fursonaās something not super out there, itās something fluffy and cute. probably some blues and yellows for colors.
im kind of split on what i think for jon. my original thought was that heās not a furry and doesn;t really know anything about it but heās not like, bothered by it or anything, find it kind of fun if introduced. isnt a furry but has the potential to be. but then @transmikecrew brought up the hilarious galaxy brain idea of heās super anti-furry but specifically because he was a huge furry in college. āthat time he was riding a carosel at the london zoo? full fursuit baybeeā. his college fursona was a sparklecat
georgieās a furry, pretty big into it. her fursona is a Ghost Cat (ghost sona was @camofrogadierās spectacular idea) and sheās got a suit- toony digigrade fullsuit, i feel like. got it with all that Sock Ad Cash. itās got little Xās for pupils. no techy stuff, just good ol traditional foam-base fursuit. very cute, ultra huggable, con crowd favorite.
melanie was Not a furry til she and georgie started dating (high fives @justletmeremember same brain cell). sheās introduced via georgie (like, melanieās an internet persona, she already knew about furries obviously, just never gave them a closer look) and nowās kinda into it. she doesnāt have a suit but her fursonaās a skull dino (like yours truly)
jesus christ its past midnight
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I have decided to use photomode
I have also decided I should become passable at photomode
The only concession to you all is that I will put my amateur hour V mug shots under a lovely cut
This is Valerie Hope Fraser. Techie. She probably has grenades in her pockets, but you can never be sure, which somehow makes it worse. Uses Tech weapons, because there is no kill like over kill. Ex-Nomad, now trying to make her way in Night City with as little social grace as possible. Drives too fast in streets that have absolutely no business having a tricked out Coyote bombing down them. Has terrible taste in men, a.k.a The Brain Parasite a.k.a Johnny
Valery Yang likes Judy Alvarez, neons, and punching things, in that order. Used to work in Arasaka counter intel, but merc work suits her far more as a Solo. Doesnāt get along with Johnny in the slightest, as they both have the same brand of gung-ho, cocksure, single brain cell charm and THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE. Uses a motorbike, and oh god do people wish she didnāt
Vincent Karev is most likely about a hundred and fifty odd feet away, chanting the age old stealth mantra of āpleasedonātseemepleasedonātseemeā behind a bin. So a natural Netrunner. Probably needs a therapist more than anything, but instead he has Nibbles and Johnny. How someone so shy and into matte black managed to attract a shiny, loud rockerboy/pensioner is a mystery, but he is not questioning it incase Kerry notices. Makes full use of his Metro card, like a civilized Night City native.Ā
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Announcing the Disrupt 2020 agenda
For the past 10 years, Disrupt has been a place for the tech community to come together to connect and learn. And while thousands of techies wonāt be able to descend on the Moscone Center this year, the Disrupt show will most certainly go on.
On the conferenceās 10th anniversary, weāre coming to you virtually. This makes Disrupt 2020 the most accessible Disrupt ever. But just because itās virtual doesnāt mean that the fundamentals of the show will change. Disrupt attendees will, of course, have full access to the Disrupt stage and the Extra Crunch stage, as well as virtual networking, interactive Q&A, a digital Startup Alley, and more. Weāll also be delivering sessions focused on Europe and Asia that are friendly for their respective time zones. More to be announced on that soon!
Some things have changed. For one, the show is running for five days instead of three, and each day will be shorter, running from 9:00am PT to approximately 1:30pm PT. Weāve built networking time directly into the agenda, and as with past years, CrunchMatch (our system for matching investors with entrepreneurs and connecting all attendees) will be running throughout the whole show. New this year are sessions where venture capitalists evaluate and suggest fixes for Disrupt 2020 attendees pitch decks. More information about the Pitch Deck Teardown is found here.
We have some amazing speakers booked for this year, with more to be announced soon.
Today, weād like to share with you a first look at the Disrupt 2020 agenda. More speakers will be added to this agenda, but we couldnāt resist giving you a peek under the hood.
Take a look!
Monday, September 14
Love In The Time of COVID-19 with Whitney Wolfe-Herd (Bumble)
Whitney Wolfe Herd was on the founding team at Tinder before charting her own course with Bumble. The dating app, which currently has more than 100 million users, puts the brand front and center. In the past year, following a scandal at parent company Badoo, Wolfe Herd has taken the reigns of the entire Magic Lab corporation, which owns Badoo, Bumble, Lumen and Chappy dating apps. Hear from Wolfe Herd about the future of online dating and how sheās stayed down to earth during her meteoric rise to the top of the dating industry. Disrupt StageĀ
How to Raise Money in a Dumpster Fire with Anu Hariharan (Y Combinator), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), and Hans Tung (GGV Capital)
Garry Tan started his first company, Posterous in 2008, so the Initialized Capital co-founder knows a thing or two about economic crises and how they can affect fundraising. Hans Tung, GGVās Midas-list dealmaker has seen downturns on three continents in his tenure investing in the US, China, and Latin America for the globe-spanning investment firm, while Anu Hariharan has spent the last decade putting companies through their paces at BCG, A16Z, and most recently, YC. Theyāll be delivering the goods on how to get that gelt during this raging dumpster fire of a year.Ā Extra Crunch StageĀ
The Business of Quantum with Alan Baratz (D-Wave Systems), Peter Chapman (IonQ), and Itamar Sivan (Quantum Machines)
Quantum computing is having a moment. We now have limited but working hardware available from a number of vendors and there is a growing startup ecosystem that is creating a novel hardware approach and a new class of software tools to run these machines and program them. In this panel, weāll talk about whatās next for quantum computing, the challenges ahead and the roles startups play in fulfilling the promise of this technology. Disrupt Stage
Planning for Your Startupās Exit: The Howās and the Whenās with Tracy Young (Coyote Family) and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)
When Cloudflare IPOād last year it certainly wasnāt the end of its 10 year journey, and nor was it PlanGridās when it was acquired by Autodesk in 2018. Cloudflareās Michelle Zatlyn and PlanGridās Tracy Young will guide us through both their respective companyās journey and their own as founders. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Pitch Deck Teardown with Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) and Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures)Ā
Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great deck (or not) with top investors as they go through your submitted pitches live on stage. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Startup Battlefield Competition ā SessionĀ 1
TechCrunchās iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage
Zooming Into the Future with Eric Yuan (Zoom)
Zoom has not only replaced the office meeting room, but the family dinner table and local bar as well. Hear from Eric Yuan, Zoomās founder CEO, about how his company has handled historic growth thanks to COVID-19, and whatās next for the popular enterprise, and consumer brand. Disrupt StageĀ
How Things Get Built in the Middle of a Pandemic with Kate Whitcomb (Chrysalis Cloud), Steven Yang (Anker), and speaker to be announced
How has COVID-19 impacted how and where the stuff we use gets built? Weāll hear from Anker CEO Steven Yang and Chrysalis Cloud CEO/former HAX Partner Kate Whitcomb to learn more about how the world of manufacturing has had to adapt in 2020 and what might lay ahead. Extra Crunch StageĀ
How to Scale a Tech-Powered Non-Profit with Tiffani Ashley Bell (The Human Utility)
We speak to Tiffani Ashley Bell, founder of The Human Utility, on what it took to build a platform that helps people pay their water bills and how tech-powered nonprofits should think about scaling for social impact. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Tuesday, September 15
Getting to $100M ARR with Vineet Jain (Egnyte), Sid Sijbrandij (GitLab), and Michal Tsur (Kaltura)
TechCrunch speaks with three private companies that have reached the $100 million ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) mark. Weāll explore what they had to break, and rebuild in their companies as they scaled, and what they learned as they left the early-stages of startup life and built companies that are nearly ready to go public. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Looking into the Future with Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital)
Botha is the U.S. head of Sequoia Capital. Itās a powerful position but it also comes with great responsibility, including to help steer the companyās portfolio companies through the pandemic and its ripple effects. Hear how Botha is advising founders and why, even in trying times, he expects startup founders to reshape the world. Disrupt StageĀ
How to Craft your Pitch Deck for 2020 with Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), Lo Toney (Plexo Capital), and speaker to be announcedĀ
Today you might be pitching by email, audio, video, VR or IRL to all types of investors across the globe. How do you tell your story in a way that reaches the right people the right way without you diverting too much time from building your company? The traditional deck of powerpoint slides still has a place, but you need to manage many more opportunities for fundraising, too. Weāll talk through the latest tactics that founders are using around the world.Ā Extra Crunch StageĀ
Startup Battlefield Competition ā Session 2
TechCrunchās iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Ā Disrupt StageĀ
Pitch Deck Teardown with Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst) and Megan Quinn (Niantic)
Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great deck (or not) with top investors as they go through your submitted pitches live on stage. Extra Crunch StageĀ
How to Raise Your First Dollars with Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital Partners), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), and Ted Wang (Cowboy Ventures)
Deciding how to go about getting your initial funding is always a tricky subject, as the wrong move could adversely impact your young company. In this session weāll hear from experts whoāve shepherded multiple companies from the earliest to the latest fundraises.Ā Extra Crunch Stage
The Next Generation of Media with Morgan DeBaun (Blavity) and Angie Nwandu (The Shade Room)
Blavity and The Shade Room have both demonstrated that Black audiences are looking for digital publishers who speak to their experiences and interests. Weāll talk to their founders about how they did it, how theyāre building scalable businesses and how other publications can do a better job of reaching diverse audiences. Ā Disrupt StageĀ
How to Find the Right Users as the World Burns with Brian Balfour (Reforge), Elliot Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), and Susan Su (Sound Ventures)
Users in 2020 are split across more and more platforms and splintered by geographies. Theyāre also jaded about marketing and have less money than before the pandemic. So how do you find the right customers and audience members to build a business with your limited time and budget? Hear from the experts on big growth marketing trends and cutting-edge tactics in key acquisition channels including SEO, social, email and more. Extra Crunch StageĀ
In the Big Leagues with Delane Parnell (PlayVS)
In a few short years, PlayVS has put eSports leagues in high schools across the country, partnering with gaming giants and school systems. The startup has raised $96 million with founder Delane Parnell at the helm, now theyāre looking to expand their ambitions. With traditional high school athletic programs likely to be deeply impacted by COVID-19, will eSports see even greater adoption? Disrupt Stage
Wednesday, September 16
Making Bank with Mitchell Elegbe (Interswitch)
In 2002 Mitchell Elegbe founded digital finance startup Interswitch to connect Nigeriaās banking system. More than a decade later, his company is valued at over $1 billion and supports billions in digital payment activity across Africa. Interswitch is poised to become Africaās first major fintech firm to list on a major exchange. Elegbe will discuss the future of digital finance and IPOs coming from Africa.Ā Disrupt StageĀ
The Changing Landscape of Property Tech with Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz), Merritt Hummer (Bain Capital Ventures), and Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall)
Connie Chan, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Merritt Hummer of Bain Capital Ventures and Brendan Wallace, co-founder and managing partner at Fifth Wall are at the center of these changes. These investors will discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in property tech as well as advice for startups in the industry. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Little Wires Everywhere with Kerry WashingtonĀ
Kerry Washington is perhaps best known for her work in Hollywood, but sheās been making a name for herself in tech over the last few years. An investor in The Wing, Community and teeth-straightening service Byte, Washingtonās portfolio consists of products and services that aim to give people a voice or improve their quality of life. In this fireside chat, Washington will discuss what brought her into the tech industry, her investment strategy and the rise of streaming platforms. And, as an activist and someone who has spoken up about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, Washington will share her views on diversity, inclusion and equity in tech. Ā Disrupt StageĀ
Building a Startup During the āWork From Homeā Revolution with Sarah Cannon (Index Ventures), Sarah Guo (Greylock), and Dave Munichiello (GV)
Weāre delighted to bring together a trio of the worldās best expert investors on the topic and explore this critical trend further. Sarah Cannon is a partner at Index Ventures where she has backed such team productivity tools as Notion, focused messaging app Quill, and Pitch. Next we have Sarah Guo, who is a general partner at Greylock where she has invested in Clubhouse, family benefits platform Cleo and several cybersecurity companies. Finally, Dave Munichiello will join. He is a general partner at GV who has backed Slack, GitLab, Plaid, and a whole lot of other well-known enterprise startups. Extra Crunch StageĀ
CRISPR in the Post-COVID Era with Jennifer Doudna (UC Berkeley)
What has the global COVID-19 pandemic changed about the biotech industry in general, and CRISPR in particular? Dr. Jennifer Doudna, who co-discovered the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique, joins us to discuss the immediate and lasting implications of the novel coronavirus and transformations in genetic science. Disrupt StageĀ
Startup Battlefield Competition ā Session 3
TechCrunchās iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt StageĀ
Pitch Deck Teardown with Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures)
Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great deck (or not) with top investors as they go through your submitted pitches live on stage. Extra Crunch Stage
How Voice Computing Conquered the World with Rohit PrasadĀ and Toni Reid (Amazon)
Amazonās Alexa creators and heads Rohit Prasad and Toni Reid will join us to discuss the voice assistantās rise from curiosity to ubiquitous computing platform. The pair will discuss life beyond the smart speaker and where voice computing goes from here. Disrupt StageĀ
How to Build a Service Marketplace with Andy Fang (DoorDash) and speaker to be announcedĀ
Building service marketplaces require companies to serve all sides of the ecosystem, or at least have an understanding of the ecosystem as a whole. In this panel, weāll explore how to deliver on the value proposition for your customers, business partners and delivery partners, if you have them. DoorDash is a perfect example of running a service marketplace, and its co-founder and CTO Andy Fang is here to tell you how. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Daphne Kollerās Push to Marry Big Data to Big Pharma (Insitro)
Drug discovery and testing is a complex, fraught process that modern computing methods promise to reinvent ā but only with the right data, the right tools, and the right people (and a lot of money). Coursera and Calico veteran Daphne Koller thinks she has all the right ingredients in her new company Insitro. Disrupt StageĀ
The Black Founder Experience: Tactical Advice for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs with Michael Seibel (Y Combinator) and speakers to be announced
How does the startup experience differ for founders from underrepresented groups? What are the biggest ongoing challenges, and how can they be tackled? Weāll hear from Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel and two soon-to-be-announced YC founders on their experiences starting companies and raising money as Black entrepreneurs.Ā Extra Crunch StageĀ
Whatās Next for Atlassian with Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian)
Atlassianās tools have become ubiquitous for software teams around the world, but in todayās world, its collaboration tools also play a wider role inside of many companies. Weāll talk to the companyās co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes about life after the companyās successful IPO and how he plans to stay ahead of the next set of trends in software development. Disrupt StageĀ
Thursday, September 17
Greenlighting a New Generation of Storytellers with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Tyler Mitchell (Imagine Impact)
Yes, that Ron Howard. One of the worldās most successful actors, directors and producers and legendary producer Brian Grazer have created some of the most iconic films and television shows of the last 35 years (Empire, Arrested Development, and The Da Vinci Code to name a few). But entertainment ā like tech ā is all about disruption. So, to tap into how it will be created and delivered in the future, the pair have teamed up with Tyler Mitchell for Imagine Impact, Silicon Valley-style accelerators where promising writers connect with mentors to build their stories and take them to the next step ā whatever that might be. Imagine Impact signed a deal in June with Netflix to expand that pipeline, so come hear about what else they have planned, and what the three of them think about YouTubers, TikTok and the future of the feature.Ā Disrupt Stage
The Future of SaaS with Maha Ibrahim (Canaan Partners), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), and Mike Volpi (Index Ventures)
In 2020 SaaS companies have seen their values drop sharply, and rebound even more quickly. TechCrunch is chatting with a few VCs with deep insight into the SaaS world to talk about which startups are accelerating, lagging, or breaking out. And weāll explore whatās changed in terms of venture expectations for SaaS companies, and what makes them stand out from their peers when it comes to placing bets. Extra Crunch Stage
How Embedded Finance Represents the Future of Fintech with Hope Cochran (Madrona Venture Group), Ruth Foxe-Blader (Anthemis Group) and Zach Perret (Plaid)
The fintech industry has had a wild couple of years. Consumer fintech startups have been massively successful and managed to attract millions of customers. At the same time, enterprise companies have created the infrastructure that will make finance truly digital, from payments to API-driven integrations and risk assessment. In this panel, weāll talk about whatās next for the fintech industry. Will tech companies all become fintech companies at some point with embedded financial products? Will new tech giants thrive by powering those embedded financial products? Extra Crunch Stage
Putting Robots to Work with Robert Playter (Boston Dynamics)Ā
In his first public speaking engagement since becoming the CEO of Boston Dynamics, Robert Playter will discuss the companyās transition from research robotics darlings to commercial production. As an employee for more than 25 years, Playter has unique insight into the companyās growth and plans to help robots become an increasingly important driver of our daily lives. Disrupt StageĀ
Pitch Deck Teardown with Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital) and Susan Lyne (BBG Ventures)
Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great deck (or not) with top investors as they go through your submitted pitches live on stage. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Startup Battlefield Competition ā Session 4
TechCrunchās iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt StageĀ
How to Iterate Your Product with Oded Gal (Zoom), Eugene Wei, Tamar Yehoshua (Slack), and Julie Zhuo (Inspirit)
If getting insights on product development from current and former product heads at places like Facebook, Zoom, Slack, and Oculus doesnāt sound like something youāre interested in just get out of tech now. Leave. Itās over. Go work in an insurance company. Get your brokers license. Just do something else. Extra Crunch Stage
Scaling Good Very Well with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins (Promise) and Jessica O. Matthews (Uncharted Power)Ā
You canāt get too far in Silicon Valley without hearing a founder utter the words āwe want to change the world.ā When it comes to Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder of Promise, and Jessica O. Matthews, founder of Uncharted Power, they can actually bring the receipts. Hear from these entrepreneurs about how theyāve managed their businesses not only to scale good, but to scale well. Disrupt StageĀ
How to Build an Alternative Company with Seth Besmertnik (Conductor), Aniyia Williams (Zebras Unite), and Hays Witt (Driverās Seat Cooperative)
Beyond raising traditional venture capital and beyond the pursuing-growth-at-all-costs strategy, there are people in the startup ecosystem that are finding success through less mainstream avenues. Conductor CEO Seth Besmertnik, Driverās Seat CEO Hays Witt and Aniyia Williams of Black & Brown Founders and Zebras Unite, are three of these people. These founders have all taken alternative approaches in their entrepreneurial journeys, whether thatās been forming as a cooperative, buying back a startup from a tech giant and then turning it into a majority employee-owned operation or converting into a cooperative fund that invests in startups tackling social issues. In this discussion, youāll learn how to build a company that puts profits and users first, and VCs last. Extra Crunch StageĀ
Friday, September 18
The State of Venture with Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Renata Quintini (Renegade Partners), and Lo Toney (Plexo Capital)
All three of these VCs hail from among the most powerful investing firms in the country ā Lux Capital, GV and NEA. Yet each made the bold choice to strike out on their own, adding to a growing and diverse landscape of investment vehicles across the globe. Hear about why they did it,Ā and learn about the trends that theyāre funding as they build their businesses. Disrupt StageĀ
Making Cents of EdTech in the Coronavirus Era with Mercedes Bent (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital), and Ian Chiu (Owl Ventures)
Edtech has been thrown into the spotlight during COVID-19. But did a scramble to adopt and surge in usage impact the sector for better or for worse? In this session, weāll hear from investors who have bets in the biggest edtech companies on how the landscape has changed during the pandemic, and what theyāre most excited for ahead. Extra Crunch StageĀ Ā
Keeping Big Tech in Check with Congresswoman Zoe LofgrenĀ
Few know Silicon Valley better than one of its longest-serving lawmakers, Rep. Zoe Lofgren. Both as a defender and critic, Lofgren has led the effort to keep Big Tech in check, not just for her electorate but their internet users around the world. Weāll talk policy, privacy, and other hot-button issues affecting Silicon Valley, now and in the future. Disrupt Stage
How to Reinvent Your Sales Team in 2020 with Brian Ascher (Venrock), Pete Kazanjy (Atrium), and Jill Rowley (Stage 2 Capital)
Weāre bringing together the smartest leaders on sales in the Valley to discuss tactics and more. Brian Ascher is a partner at Venrock where for more than two decades he has invested in B2B sales-driven companies like 6Sense, Socrates AI, and Dynamic Signal. Next, Pete Kazanjy is one of the leading startup authorities on sales through his written works like āFounding Salesā and community building while also founding sales performance platform Atrium HQ. Finally, we have Jill Rowley, who has spent decades advising startups on sales and was also an early employee at Salesforce and Eloqua.Ā Extra Crunch StageĀ
Startup Battlefield Competition ā Final
TechCrunchās iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage
Building a Low-Code Unicorn with Howie Liu (Airtable)Ā
Low-code/no-code has been a buzzword for years now, but few companies have taken this idea to its logical conclusion the way Airtable has with its spreadsheet-like interface. With a valuation of over $1 billion, the company is now at the forefront of this movement. Weāll talk to Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu about building a user-friendly low-code service, enterprise sales in the age of COVID-19, and whatās next for the no-code/low-code space. Disrupt StageĀ
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A new home
Over the years, Iāve ended up with multiple āpresencesā online:
The original Coyote Tracks, hosted at Tumblr
āCoyote Prints,ā an attempt at a writing news-ish weblog, generated with Jekyll
My Ranea.org website, made with a hacky homebrew static site generator
The occasional foray onto Medium
Thatās not even inclusive of earlier attempts at this, like a LiveJournal and, before that, a very simple bloggy thing that worked by putting files with names like 1999-01-01-entry.txt in a specific directory that were picked up by a small PHP script. (That was back in the days when PHP was just used to embed bits of interactivity in HTML pages, just like that, which is something itās pretty good at. Iām pretty sure I was doing that in early 1998, which by some measure might make me one of the earliest bloggers, or would if there had been just one damn person reading my home page.)
While this hodgepodge of bloglike objects had good intentionsāseparation of concerns, trying new platforms, keeping up with the cool kidsāitās become too unwieldy. The decision where to post is sometimes kind of arbitrary. Many of the people who read about my writing are interested in tech; while the reverse isnāt as true, Iād actually kinda like to expose some of my tech audience to my writing, especially stories that involve techy things.
A bigger concern, though, comes down to fully controlling my own content.
This isnāt a new concern; Marco Arment was writing about owning your identity back in 2011. Some blogging services let you bring your own domaināTumblr does it for free, which is why you go to tracks.ranea.org instead of chipotle.tumblr.comāand others, like WordPress.com, let you do it for a modest charge. Medium makes it possible, but only for publications (and at a fairly high cost); many other services donāt offer this at all.
So: Welcome to coyotetracks.org.
But while owning your online identity is necessary, itās not sufficient: you need to own your content, too. I donāt mean that in a legal senseādespite the headless chicken dance the internet goes through every time somebody changes their legal boilerplate, no reputable service ever has or ever will tried to steal your copyright. I mean it in an existential sense.
I still like Tumblr, despite its foibles, but as far as I know it was never profitable on its own, it was never profitable for Yahoo, and itās on track to never be profitable for Verizon. As for Medium, I love what itās trying to do, or maybe I love what it was trying to last business model and not so much now, or maybe vice-versa, or maybe it was three or four business models ago. What other businesses call pivots, Medium calls Tuesdays.
Iāll circle back to that, but the upshot is that I decided I needed a POSSE: āpublish own site, syndicate everywhere.ā (Look, I didnāt make it up.) And that brings me toā¦WordPress.
Iāll be blunt: I donāt like WordPress. Internally itās a dumpster fire, full of arcanely formatted non-OO code, bloated HTML, and a theming engine designed by bipolar squirrels.
So I looked at other things. I know there are ways to make static site generators quasi-automatic, that Matt Gemmell swears itās faster to blog from his iPad with Jekyll. Iāve done it, with a system not too dissimilar from the one he describes. It works, but I donāt love it. Iām comfortable at a shell prompt, but I donāt want it to be necessary for blogging, especially if Iām on an iPad. (Iām moving back to the Mac for portable writing, but thatās another post.)
I also looked at Ghost, which started with some fanfare a couple years ago as a modern take on WordPress that focused back on blogging essentials rather than shoehorning in a content management system. Now theyāre a āprofessional publishing platform,ā and all their messaging is we are not for you, casual blogger, pretty much the opposite of their original ideology.
But I can publish to WordPress right from Ulysses. Or MarsEdit. Or the WordPress web interface, desktop app, or iOS app. The WordPress API is, at least for me, a killer feature. And its ecosystem is unmatched: I have access to thousands of plugins, at least six of which are both worth using and actively maintained.
So: Iām still finding my way. Iāve added a cross-poster which can theoretically post everywhere I want, although Iām not sure if Iām going to use its Medium functionalityāI want to be able to vet what itās posting before it goes live there, so Iāll probably just use Mediumās post importer. And I donāt want to syndicate everything everywhere: I want to syndicate selectively. (This post probably wonāt even go to Medium, for instance.)
The semi-ironic footnote: I donāt know if this is really going to make me post more, when all is said and done. Iāve always been guilty of being more interested in building things than running them. But weāll see.
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oh actually let me put here my Very Slightly updated Who Is A Furry headcanons here
tim and sasha remain mostly unchanged from my previous posts. both Properly Very Furry, though sasha more than tim. they both have partial fursuits- homemade with purchased base parts (ie plastic bits for sasha's head + electronic parts, and a foam base for tim's head). sasha's is an illegal primagen with lots of LED's and electronic bits built in, real high tech- think like, built on a jting-f base with similar techy stuff. tim's is a low-tech foam-base partial, real like...run of the mill i guess? but it looks good as far as an amateur-built fursuit goes. i hc tim as being pretty good at sewing in general. for his fursona- my original thought was a coyote? but im thinking like...i think he could rock a deer. i think he'd make a good deer
martin is not a furry, but he thinks some furry stuff is cute. thats about it for him i think
jon (as was suggested by transmikecrew like a year ago) is like, pretty anti furry. does not like furries. but that is specifically because he used to be a furry in like, college, (again ii must bring back: "that time he was riding a carosel at the london zoo? full fursuit baybee") and is real embarrassed about it now. his fursona was a sparklecat.
(secretly still enjoys furry stuff but you'd be hard pressed to make him admit it)
georgie's tied with sasha for Most Furry. has a cool professionally-made fullsuit (mmmmmm sock ad cash) of her fursona which is a toony ghost cat with X eyes and bone markings all over. black and purple color scheme.
melanie is like, a little bit a furry, dippin her toes in so to speak, but was not at all a furry til she met georgie. like, she knew about furry stuff, obviously, she's a youtuber, but never gave it much thought. not into it enough to even consider getting a fursuit, but does have a fursona, for funsies (it's a moth)
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