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Chapters

• 0:00 Why We Need A CTO
• 0:28 The Ideal Candidate Profile
• 1:03 Put The Call Out Here
• 2:34 From Contractors To Our People
• 3:37 Community Feedback And Next Steps
• 5:47 How To Apply And Final Push

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:00

Bulletproof for BJJ needs a chief technical officer, a CTO. Now, we have gone through many incarnations of the website, the app, all of that, and we're evolving all of the time. And I believe that right now we're at that stage in the life cycle of this company that we need our own people, Joe. We need someone who loves technology, loves BJJ, can code front end, back end, knows the community, and can help us turn this into a much bigger deal than it is now.

SPEAKER_00: 0:42

The fucking job opportunity of the century, fam.

SPEAKER_01: 0:45

It is. This is the call out. So I had a conversation with Do they got a train? A friend of mine. Yeah. Got a train. Gotta be into BJJ. We don't, we don't care. You gotta know our world. Yeah. If you're on if you don't love BJJ, then you're not gonna be a good match with us, right? And you're probably not even listening to this podcast if you don't love BJJ. But uh, you know, even if you're someone who who loves BJJ and you've got your best mate, happens to be head of product at Google, say, just hypothetically speaking, it was brought to my attention by my good friend Kevin Lee. Shout out, um, who trains at San Lorenzo BJJ, and he also trains judo. This is uh in uh East Bay in San Francisco, and he he's a legend, he always helps me out. And I was talking with him, and I said, also 510 judo. Anyway, I've trained there, shout out, much respect. I said to him, Man, where do I get myself a CTO? He was like, LinkedIn. I was like, shit, I'm not even up on LinkedIn. Where do I get one without having to go into LinkedIn? Yeah, that solved my problem for me. He's like, dude, uh, your podcast. Like, he's like, BJJ folks are technology folks. He's like, put the call out on the podcast and see who gets back to you. And I was like, yo, really? He's like, yeah, man, for sure, do it. Because I mean, it's an interesting thing that there's so many people who love BJJ and they're in technology. It it really does appeal to Yeah, geeks. We need a geek. Nerds, we fucking need a geek, you know. Not just that, but powerful couple of Chads over here. Yeah, we fucking gym bros who need help.

SPEAKER_00: 2:25

We got too much yin or too much yang. Yang, you know, whatever the fuck. Yeah. Um, yeah, I mean, look, you know, we've we've obviously JT and I don't do the coding for the app. No, we've sort of battled with this for years, whereby it's like it's just really hard to find someone that fucking knows us, knows the world, and you know, can just honestly do their job, and and it's yeah, so it would be awesome to have someone on the team.

SPEAKER_01: 2:51

Yeah, and the thing about this is like the the view with this is that we we have uh you know great technology partners, but they aren't they aren't our guy. You know what I mean? Like they're not they're not working with us in terms of we see them every day, we talk to them every day. They and we talk to them, you know, all the time, but it's one of those things that I I had this thought and I don't know why it occurred to me, but I I there's a plane passing by.

SPEAKER_00: 3:22

Did you hear the cooker bars just before? I did, I was like, that's very Australian. Yeah, I wonder if Jack could hear that.

SPEAKER_01: 3:26

Leave that in. Jack's the fucking producer. Um as you are. So I mean, maybe it's not even an ego thing. I last time I went to the States, I was in San Francisco, I had I was very fortunate, I got to sit down and talk with Mark Gainey, who is the ex-CEO and now the president of the board of Strava. He's the founder of Strava with Mark Horvath. I'm very fortunate that I can contact him and get a chance to talk to him. And I said to him, man, when do you stop being just like a startup founder? And when are you like a when's it a company? When's it a like when are you a CEO? When is the shit real? You know? And he's like, when everybody who works for you is your people. Like you pay their check, they depend on you. The company feeds them. Like that's that's when it's a real company, that's when it stops being a startup, you know? And I was like, oh, holy shit. And he's like, no subcontractors, like they they all live, breathe, and die for the thing, and that's what it is. And I was like, oh man, okay, great, right? I guess, guess I better go organize that. And so that's what's kind of commenced this process. And I and I think that at every stage we've been very lucky that we had a lot of support from people in the bulletproof community who've said, Hey, you know, that website, it's okay, but you should get an app, and maybe you should do this. And we get feedback and we get a lot of um goodwill. Maybe you should get an app, they said. Yeah. And where does that go? And you know, like it's it's all of these things that we we know what we know, and there's plenty of things we don't know, and we need help. And so that's why we're doing this. We're putting the call out because if you are that person, say you maybe you're not you're not in love with the large, super large Silicon Valley company that you've signed on for, and you're like, you know what? I want to hang out with a bunch of Australians. And when I say a bunch, I mean me and Joe. And I want to take orders from those guys because I love BJJ and I love Bulletproof, and I could make it better. And that's really what we want because we know there's lots of things we can improve, and we want someone who's passionate about what we're passionate about to make it a bigger and better thing. And so the call is out. The bat signal is in the sky. We are we are calling you. So, what I'd like you guys to do, if you are that person and you are interested in working with us, email me jt at bulletproof for bjj.com, contact me, let me know who you are, let's have that chat, and let's see where this can go. It's exciting times, Joe.

SPEAKER_00: 6:14

Fucking a, let's go.