Listen "Jessie Li: Roam/CN and Collective Intelligence"
Episode Synopsis
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 graphSupporting Chinese Roam users in roam/cn and growing up to 200+ members The future of Roam in media, as a university and a new TwitterEnjoy!Thank you to Matt Brockwell for the awesome review!Timestamps3:45 Jessie's background, developing China's entrepreneurship ecosystem8:25 The meaning of 'Fat Garage'11:31 Discovering the tool through Product Hunt13:32 "I was jealous of his graph"16:15 Roam in beta, and the a-ha moments19:35 The Business Model Canvas24:04 Jessie Li's templates and routines27:18 Starting roam/cn and gathering the Chinese Roam community29:48 Interpreting Conor's interview on 20minutesvc33:36 WeChat group with 230+ members38:20 Overlap between Roam China's members and other WeChat groups41:33 Seeing roam/cn in 5 years, and the future of Roam42:36 Roam will be a better university44:58 Roam can be a better media48:59 Roam can be a better Twitter59:41 Running roam/cn in a chaotic way54:06 Collective intelligence and the roam/cn public Roam graph57:52 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]]1:03:53 [[What does Roam mean to you?]]LinksJessie's TwitterFat Garage Websiteroam/cn BiliBili Channelroam/cn Public Roam GraphSupport the show