Brad Turner Interviewed at AI Vibes Summit in Santa Monica

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres. And today I am at the AI vibes conference in Santa Monica, California. And I'm catching up with Brad Turner, who has been on the show before, but also has a conference coming up. First off, Brad, welcome back on the show, man. How are you doing Adam? I feel like this is good. We're getting our report. I feel like now I'm so excited. Yeah. So what brings you to the AI Vibes conference today? Well, AI is an area that we are helping bring to our clients. And Tal Navarro, who's organized the AI Vibes has done a great job and just continuing learning and then applying this information back to our clients that are also trying to figure out what to do in this quick paced AI world, you know? Hmm. So For yourself, you have a large platform. You're holding conferences often. How did, I don't, I don't know this about you. We've talked many times. How'd you get started in that business and bring and building community? Well, that's an, that's a great question. So many years ago, right out of college. I started attending events. For example, the first event I went to is a consumer electronics show. And after going to that experience, I started to, anytime I got new industry relationship, I then decided I would actually identify. A conference to go learn. So I would attend conferences and basically just network very rapidly. And then along the way I progressed in knowing about different industries, different relationships. And then eventually I started to organize and. Help produce events large scale, small scale. And at the same time, I also started to do a lot of research and just guide people to this information about other events. So in between the events I do, just like AI vibes, I helped market the event, promote it. Yeah. Cause I just try to help out the ecosystem. So that's kind of the name of the game, just like you're doing, just keep educating people. What do you enjoy about that part of it? Like bringing people together, bringing the community together, like, cause this is not easy work, business aside, like organizing and your events are large. I mean, hundreds and hundreds of people attend them. There's a lot of moving pieces. What do you enjoy about bringing people together? The question I hear a lot is what do you like doing? What do you enjoy? What I've learned is that. You know, my parents allowed me to be very entrepreneurial very early on and I just continue keep learning and as I keep learning, I just like to share the information. So when it comes to the events, it's just like we're experiencing AI vibes. I'm learning. I have previous relationships that are exhibiting here. Like the gentleman that you interview with the robot, right? Yeah. So I just any I'm a fan of Jenny, right? So Tom bought you met him. I did an interview with him at my prior to the event He did an event in March and that's where he met Tao that's doing AI vibes. Yeah, so to see him here and progress I just was finished talking to him. He met somebody new and It's just about seeing This progression, just like I'm meeting you again. So there's just overlap. I've got three events planned between now and the end of the year. So you just keep building and trying to help people out. And ultimately it's just kind of cool when you get a result, you know, people show up, they like it. They say they had a good time. That's just kind of, that's all you really can expect from people. Say they have a good time. So you met an entrepreneur early whenever somebody says that. That what was that first business? You remember, I got to know I'm nosy, newspapers, candy, like books. What, what were you? That's a very good question. The reality is my parents allowed me to back in the day, you could actually set up your own selling your products on your we lived in Sunnyvale. So I was able to set up and start selling products right out front. We wouldn't necessarily call it a garage sale, but really a garage sale. That's awesome. So I had comic books, cause my dad would always I was a comic book seller. I was all about the comic books. In hindsight, we know we should have kept them, right? Yeah, exactly. So, but I had comic books and all this other stuff. So early on, I did that. I started a window washing business. Oh, I missed that one. I wish I would have had that one. I started a wallpaper company. Oh, wow. So these are the ones that I learned from somebody else, and I started my own. Yeah. This was all You know, during college and then the first startup I started was actually with a buddy of mine from college, a fraternity brother and his uncle had sold a pacemaker company. So we actually started a company called MedData and we did that in 1979. So I ended up getting a corporate 200 job, but simultaneously. I ended up getting this startup and our mentor was the uncle that had all this money and guided us. It didn't go anywhere, but literally that's the, you

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