{"id":40041,"date":"2022-06-24T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40041"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:26:05","slug":"robert-stephens-founder-of-the-geek-squad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/robert-stephens-founder-of-the-geek-squad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stephens, Founder of The Geek Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_74888\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u1xZKFomW9I?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/23512670\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/5dad54\/time-start\/00:00:00\/hide-playlist\/yes\/download\/yes\" height=\"128\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\" class=\"ui-droppable\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rstephens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Stephens<\/a>. Robert is the founder of The Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy. The Geek Squad will turn 30 in 2024 and employs over 24,000 people. His newest company launching soon, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainlist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChainList<\/a>, a platform for re-usable checklists and was inspired by CoolTools. A native of Chicago, he now lives in the Bay Area. Robert\u2019s newest company, ChainList will enter public beta soon. It was inspired by his time building Geek Squad &#8211; which is still powered by checklists. Chainlist let\u2019s you find, make, remix, and subscribe to checklists. With NFC and QR codes \u2014 you can even store this info onto physical objects like homes and equipment. Just like CoolTools, ChainList hopes to offer everyone access to useful processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOOLS: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/mXhnBM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFC coin tags<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakdev.com\/en\/apps\/nfc-tools-ios.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFC Tools app<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pvieito.com\/apps?redirect=makepass#app-makepass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MakePass app<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.com\/en-ca\/payments\/payment-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Payment Links from Stripe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainlist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChainList<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show and Tell #319: Robert Stephens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1559],"tags":[2375,1555,2382],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40045,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041\/revisions\/40045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}