DROdio - DROdio - CEO @ Storytell | Advisor at FounderCulture

Armory's Manifesto

This is a cross post from http://go.Armory.io/Manifesto . If you like this post you might also like my CEO Manifesto [http://go.Armory.io/CEO-Manifesto] and the story behind our $10MM Series A fundraise [http://go.Armory.io/about-our-series-a]. TL;DR: Software is the highest-leverage way to

B2B

Software dominates industries like the fire-breathing dragons in Game of Thrones

The Game of Thrones season finale was tonight, and I thought this picture was a pretty apt analogy of the insurgent role software is starting to play in a business' ability to dominate not just their industry, but multiple industries: Amazon is now closing on its acquisition of Whole

Ketosis

Two Years in Ketosis: My Health Update

I've been doing a longer experiment with ketosis for about two years now. I started naturally slipping into ketosis when I started intermittent fasting and found that I really loved the way it felt. Most people have very little knowledge of what ketosis is and how it works

DROdio's Bio

I'm the CEO of Storytell.ai, an enterprise-grade AI platform. I was the founding CEO of Armory, a devops startup that enabled digital transformation for Global 2,000 enterprises. Armory's customers included JPMorgan Chase, Autodesk and Snap and used Armory’s software delivery platform to execute

founders

How I like to do intros

I like to make introductions to someone in my network in a specific way. If you've recently asked me for an intro, I may have sent you to this page. Here's the I'd like to ask you to use: 1) Send me an email

founders

A great way to interview consumers

I've never tried this myself, but I've heard it works extremely well -- and in fact, I'd love for someone to try this and then post a comment on this blog (ideally w/ pics!) describing how it goes: As I've written about

founders

Instrumenting a Startup: The Tools & Services We're Using to Start Armory

When Isaac, Ben and I started Armory [http://www.armory.io/] late last year, I found a lot has changed since starting my last startup, Socialize [http://go.danielodio.com/acquired], in 2008. There's a suite of new tools available to instrument a startup that didn't

Health

A Step by Step Guide To Take Control of Your Body

It just blows my mind how little we know about our bodies and how to keep them healthy. Most people I talk to aren't happy with the state of their bodies. They either feel like they're too fat, or too skinny, or some other complex. And

Software

Software dominates industries like the fire breathing dragons in Game of Thrones

The Game of Thrones season finale was tonight, and I thought this picture was a pretty apt analogy of the insurgent role software is starting to play in a business' ability to dominate not just their industry, but multiple industries: Amazon is now closing on its acquisition of Whole

Matryoshka Doll

Build Your Startup Like a Matryoshka Doll

"Experience is what you get right after you need it." - James C. Wofford Armory [http://www.armory.io/] is the startup I've always wanted to create. I'm applying everything I've learned [http://go.danielodio.com/startups] over the past fifteen years

Mile

Leverage The Last Mile

One of my best "get things done" tricks: is that I focus on the "last mile" of whatever I'm doing. The picture above illustrates what I mean: Most of the work went into building I-40. But for the houses that live off of Fort

Health

What I've Learned After a Year of Prioritizing My Health

When I turned 39 last year, I knew I was in trouble, and although I hadn't recognized quite how bad my health had gotten, I knew enough to realize I had to do something about it. On my 39th birthday I vowed that by 40, I would be

Ketogenic

Beyond Fasting: The Ketogenic Rabbit Hole

I'm about to take you down a deep rabbit hole, on a path that will challenge what you believe about nutrition and health. This is a journey of experimentation, and I encourage you to keep a very open mind, and in fact, I hope you decide to experiment

Performance

15 Month Performance Review: Betterment vs. Wealthfront vs. S&P500 vs. Other Options

I wrote this post in August 2014 comparing Betterment to Wealthfront [http://danielodio.com/betterment-vs-wealthfront-which-one-will-maximize-your-wealth-more] , so it's been about 15 months, and I thought it'd be a good time to check in on relative performance, as a buddy of mine recently wrote: "I saw your

Passive Income

Optimize the Passive Income on Your Short-Term Cash

When I wrote my orginal post Show Me The Money: Six Strategies to Put Your Cash to Work [http://danielodio.com/show-me-the-money-six-strategies-to-put-your-cash-to-work] , one of the strategies I included was leveraging General Electric's high-yield money market account for the cash you want to keep readily available (i.e., cash

fasting

Fasting Update: Three Months In

NOTE: I've had many people tell me this article has motivated them to try fasting. Here's how to try it [http://danielodio.com/uid/1233298] in the way that's most likely to ensure success. It’s been 13 weeks since I wrote the in-depth

Elon Musk

Elon Musk goes Back to the Future

Elon Musk did a fireside chat (why is the fire always missing from these fireside chats?) with Steve Jurvitson of DFJ at Stanford this morning to celebrate an event called FutureFest [http://stvp.stanford.edu/futurefest/]. In the movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly went 30 years into the

fun

Behind The Scenes of the 2015 Buring Man Temple of Promise

Jazz Tigan, an insanely talented artist, is the lead designer of the 2015 Burning Man Temple of Promise [https://www.facebook.com/templeofpromise]. Burning Man is a festival in the desert that's often misunderstood by those who have never been. It's not just a party, rather,

founders

The Forest vs. The Trees: A Story About Focus

I'm going to share a story about the forest vs. the trees. But it's not the story you're expecting to hear. My last blog post was about Doing Less, Better [https://drodio.com/do-less-better], which is my theme for 2015. A big part of

finance

Betterment vs. Wealthfront: Which One Will Maximize Your Wealth More?

> UPDATE: 15 Month Performance Review: Betterment vs. Wealthfront vs. S&P500 vs. Other Options [http://www.drodio.com/15-month-performance-asset-allocation-review-betterment-vs-wealthfront-vs-s-p500-vs-other-options] + related posts on P2P Lending [http://www.drodio.com/one-year-in-lending-money-to-complete-strangers-via-an-api-and-why-you-should-try-it] , High Yield ETFs [http://danielodio.com/uid/1233759] and other investment strategies [http://www.drodio.com/show-me-the-money-six-strategies-

finance

One Year In: Lending Money to Complete Strangers via an API... And Why You Should Try It

About a year ago, I wrote a blog called "Show Me the Money: Six Strategies to Put Your Cash to Work [https://drodio.com/show-me-the-money-six-strategies-to-put-your-cash-to-work]," where I talked about two new(ish) investment strategies my wife and I were using. I wrote a followup blog about the first

fasting

Life In the Fast Lane: My Experiment with Intermittent Fasting for Health and Fitness

> UPDATE: I wrote this update [https://drodio.com/fasting-update-three-months-in/] 3 months after the original post below. Read below first, then read the update to get the latest! I'm turning 40 this December, and that's caused me to deeply re-evaluate my health. In high school I

founders

Do Less, Better

There's a great article in the NYTimes [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield/?_r=0] about Slack, a new startup that the Valley is buzzing about. Slack is a business messaging & collaboration app, and it's really, really good. The reporter in the

founders

Marketing Your Startup by Giving Out Stock Options

This new startup, Jet.com, is looking to be the Costco of the web, and to undercut Amazon's prices by an average of 10%. They won't focus on speedy 2 day "prime" delivery. Instead, by being a member and paying a $49 annual fee

founders

Need vs. Want

Just a quick post to share a decision making pro-tip that I shared with a few people this week. Anytime I need to consider a number of criteria to make a decision on something, I try to suss out what my needs are vs. my wants. (This is a framework