Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I think we really take the mindset of stack a lot of small wins and move really fast. So you go all the way back to the first drone, I would invite these 3PLs to this warehouse in Evanston that I was renting in the middle of winter in Chicago, and I couldn't afford to heat it because it was 10,000 square feet. That was an MVP.
Then the first time we actually had to go from not just deploying one sensor on a forklift to 34 sensors on a forklift and actually make the system work every single day to detect safety incidents. That was an MVP. My name is Mark Kenyoshi, and I'm the CEO and founder of OneTrack. This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months moonlighting.
There's nothing on the back end.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Marc Gyöngyösi's passion for technology?
Who share what it takes to change an industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many guys to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. A company is its people. The teams help each other achieve more. Most proud of our team. Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as we grow. Total waste of time.
The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve, mind you. Took it off the shelf and dusted it off and tried it again. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology. All this and more on Code Story. I'm your host, Noah Labpart. And today, I'm Mark Jinyoshi. Has built AI for effortless operations.
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His interests have consistently centered on blending the physical and digital worlds, from open-source flight simulator development to modern explorations in AI, which now occupies most of his free time. But outside of tech, he enjoys running, skiing, golf, and staying active. And although he spent time flying, he stepped back from it due to time constraints.
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Chapter 3: How did Marc transition from drones to computer vision?
This is flight 101. I think you said 100 flights already this year. 101. Sitting next to an entrepreneur who's built the next big thing. They're jazzed about it. They can't wait to show it off to the world. And can we show it off to you right there on the plane? What advice do you give that person having gone down this road a bit? I think never stop and just keep iterating.
You're going to run into so many walls and entrepreneurship is not just running around walls. Sometimes it means you need to run through walls. Distinguish between the, is it our essay, simple and easy, right? Two different things. Sometimes the difficult things are the most important things to solve first.
And the difficult thing may be nothing that you need to build or create and maybe just being honest with yourself and the feedback that you get from others. And when I think about like early days of the drones, everyone was excited about drones. But if I had truly been honest with myself about bit earlier.
It was less about winning business plans competitions and being on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. And I should have spent more time thinking about, assume I can solve all these technical issues. Is the problem that I'm solving significant enough to build a true business around it? And
Today, you have so many people out there that are able to generate a lot of revenue quickly, but I don't think that revenue will stay there for the long term. And so really understand the business you're building and the why of why your customers buy what you're making and be honest about that with yourself.
And maybe that's the wall sometimes that you need to run through rather than the next thing that you want to integrate or AI algorithm you're trying to figure out. That's fantastic advice. Well, Mark, thanks for being on the show today. And thank you for telling the creation story of OneTrap. Thanks for having me. And this concludes another chapter of Code Story.
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