Aug 21 2020 72 mins 9
In this episode, we talk with Jessie Li, an independent consultant at Singapore Management University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and Founder of Fat Garage, an interesting website covering Chinese entrepreneurs in niche markets, such as asteroid mining, synthetic biology, and more. She founded the roam/cn Community, a collective of Roam users from all walks of life in Mandarin, filled with videos, articles, and other resources to learn together, and develop use cases for Roam Research. We talked about: How she discovered Roam through Product Hunt, and getting jealous of her friend's Roam graph Supporting Chinese Roam users in roam/cn and growing up to 200+ members The future of Roam in media, as a university and a new Twitter Enjoy! Thank you to Matt Brockwell for the awesome review! Timestamps 3:45 Jessie's background, developing China's entrepreneurship ecosystem 8:25 The meaning of 'Fat Garage' 11:31 Discovering the tool through Product Hunt 13:32 "I was jealous of his graph" 16:15 Roam in beta, and the a-ha moments 19:35 The Business Model Canvas 24:04 Jessie Li's templates and routines 27:18 Starting roam/cn and gathering the Chinese Roam community 29:48 Interpreting Conor's interview on 20minutesvc 33:36 WeChat group with 230+ members 38:20 Overlap between Roam China's members and other WeChat groups 41:33 Seeing roam/cn in 5 years, and the future of Roam 42:36 Roam will be a better university 44:58 Roam can be a better media 48:59 Roam can be a better Twitter 59:41 Running roam/cn in a chaotic way 54:06 Collective intelligence and the roam/cn public Roam graph 57:52 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]] 1:03:53 [[What does Roam mean to you?]] Links Jessie's Twitter Fat Garage Website roam/cn BiliBili Channel roam/cn Public Roam Graph
