10 Million SlideShare Presentations

SlideShare was celebrating their 10 millionth upload.  Also some ego-rubbing stats on my uploads...

"Your 21 SlideShares have been viewed a total of 63,848 times" and over 1,300 downloads.

Uber Looking to Hire 3 Key Positions in Korea

Uber is looking to fill 3 positions in Korea!  General Manager, Operations & Logistics Manager, and a Community Manager.  Take a look at the details below.  If you are interested, please send your resume to Jin-Sun Kim jinsun@uber.com



ABOUT UBER

• Uber is a technology company. We make a smartphone app that provides users with an on-demand, private car service that takes them safely and smoothly to where they need to go, in over 30 major cities around the world - at the push of a button.
• Our investors include Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO), Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, and Benchmark Capital.  Seoul will be our first city in East Asia.
• Our revenues have grown more than 10-fold in just the past year, and they’ve accelerated with the launch of Uber in seven new cities over the past two months.
• On another level, Uber is about applying mobile technology, data-driven decision making, and world-class operations teams to solve a massive, offline problem: urban transport.
• These are early days. Come join us, and help us build a new fabric for urban logistics that is redefining the way people experience and get around a city. 

Additional information:
"Limo driver: Uber 'saved the day'" CNN
"Ranked number 6 "Most innovative company" in 2013" Fast Company

General Manager

The GM role at Uber is one of the most demanding positions we have to offer. As Uber’s leader in a given city, the GM is responsible for the development and growth of our business in that city. You are literally rolling out a new transportation system in your metropolis, and you will set the tone for Uber’s presence and team there.

In practice, this is a role where creativity meets analytics head-on. It’s first and foremost a job for a strong marketer, focused on reaching new users and extending the Uber brand to the masses. But as the city lead, you’ll also be responsible for operational excellence and maintaining ‘Uber quality’ throughout the rider’s experience. Customer support, local marketing, supply chain management, yield management, social media, and PR are all a part of the GM role. And while continual improvement and a focus on quality are constants, we believe in solving local problems with local solutions, so understanding your market is crucial.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Hunger and humility - Uber moves fast, and runs lean. Our GM's are entrepreneurs who build new businesses and possess an almost unstoppable, driving ambition to see those businesses grow. They’re never satisfied with the status quo, and have zero qualms about getting their hands dirty (picture handing out discount codes in taxi lines, or hanging out at a gas station to introduce drivers to Uber).  

• Analytical ability - We take an intensely data-driven approach to running our business. An Uber GM has to be able to think strategically about a market, and should really enjoy the process of constantly iterating on data -- generating insights from it, as well as turning around and executing on those insights in order to optimize a given part of the business (user demand, driver supply, revenue, etc).

• Creative instincts - GM’s truly get the cities they run; they know what makes them tick, who to go to for help, and how to get things done in them. They use that expertise to set a vision for the city, intelligently segment its users, and generate creative ideas to market to those groups in the right ways.  

• Leadership - not necessarily formal people management. GM's lead as a function of their vision, intellect, and gravitas. And because they continually strive for excellence in everything they do, they motivate and stretch the rest of the team to achieve.

 PERKS:

• Travel like a European diplomat: employees ride Uber for free
• Ground floor opportunity: shape the strategic direction of the company
• Make a difference: we’re not just another social web app: we’re moving real people/assets and changing transportation for the future
• We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage

COMPENSATION:
Full-time salary negotiable based on experience, and equity compensation plan.

Operations & Logistics Manager

The Operations & Logistics Manager role is a unique opportunity to help drive growth through the optimization of our growing number of fleet partners, and I/O drivers. This is a critical role as it directly correlates to continually improving the rider experience through greater availability while minimizing costs. This data driven role calls for a rare combination of analytical thinking & inter-personal ability to manage partnerships.

This is an intense business side startup role & this person will work closely with our engineers in San Francisco to monitor driver behavior and ensure efficiency through scheduling, asset utilization, and driver incentive programs. This role will have direct responsibility for the growth of their business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Identify, evaluate, negotiate and manage strategic fleet partnerships and driver development.
• Driver on-boarding and training
• Fleet management and scheduling (supply-chain mgmt)
• Heavy metrics analysis and product/process improvement
• Expansion planning/recruiting. Evaluate the economic and strategic costs and benefits of driver incentive programs and work with management to execute those strategies.
• Take ownership of Uber's growth in their city.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW/HAVE:

• 2-4 years of operations/analytical or related experience
• Data driven decision making mentality and sound business judgment through strong analytical thinking
• Solid understanding of a variety of business models (we're still proving ours)
• Bachelor's degree is NOT required, just bring your success stories
• Relevant experience in logistics software & or car services is a plus
• Startup (all-hands-on-deck) 'I bust my ass because I love it' approach
• Language skills: Native Korean and (near) fluency in English

EXAMPLE BACKGROUNDS:

• Dispatcher for a large fleet, without the 'I know how this is done' attitude
• Engineering background with dreams of applying similar process to people processes
• Consulting or Accounting background with numbers/excel driven decision instincts

PERKS:

• Travel like a European diplomat: employees are showered with Uber credits.
• Ground floor opportunity and as an early member of our business operations team; you’ll shape the business direction of the company.
• We’re not just another social web app: we’re moving real assets and real people around their cities.
• We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage.

COMPENSATION:
Full-time salary negotiable based on experience, and equity compensation plan. (Please send salary requirements.)


Community Manager

• You will completely own user acquisition in your city. You'll get to build a user base from scratch, and then iteratively grow that base by combining your nuanced understanding of the city with an ability to creatively engage its users. Our Community Managers have a direct, outsized impact on our success, in every market!
• Community Managers are the voice, face and soul of Uber in a given city, and they serve as the personification of our fun, innovative, service-obsessed brand.
• Uber’s ability to continually “wow” our users is crucial to our success, and your job will be to delight users via amazing customer service. Providing timely, world-class support to customers is a big aspect of this role.
• In practice you are highly social, and would be thrilled to represent Uber at events and get togethers in your city. Your infectious enthusiasm - and the Uber discount cards you never leave home without! - lead tons of new users to want to check out Uber, our app, and our game-changing service.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Hustle - Uber moves fast, and runs lean. You're a fun, charismatic, people person who can talk to anyone; flexible and fearless, you’re also excited to help build something awesome and share it with the world, in a “never turn it off” way.
• Ownership - Growth doesn’t happen on its own -- Community Managers make growth happen. Passionate, self-driven and fearless, they are deeply committed to making Uber a success in their city, and rise to the occasion to solve problems, big and small.
• Service Orientation - As the voice of Uber in your city, you’ll use that voice to bring new users onboard, as well as to support and advocate for existing users. You need to be willing to find resolutions to customer issues early, late and often.
• Creativity - You’ll be responsible for segmenting the users in your city, and for marketing effecitvely to those groups in creative ways. You need truly exceptional writing skills (for writing awesome blog posts, emails, and Tweets), and will have to continually generate unique but practical marketing ideas.

PERKS

• Travel like a European diplomat: employees ride Uber for free
• Ground floor opportunity: shape the strategic direction of the company
• Make a difference: we’re not just another social web app: we’re moving real people/assets and changing transportation for the future
• We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage

On CNN Talking About The Future of Transportation

I was on CNN talking about the future of transportation, the City of Songdo in Korea and giving a plug for Jimmy Kim’s Innotive work there.

How SparkLabs, Our Startup Accelerator, Assesses Companies for Their Program

Question really was about how does SparkLabs assess companies applying to their program and what are the most important factors. Memebox is cited as an example. (Part 6 of 6)

"Korean Entrepreneurship, Global Reach" Panel at The Korea Society in NYC

My "Korean Entrepreneurship, Global Reach" talk at The Korea Society with David Joo, Co-CEO of KnowRe, which was part of SparkLabs' first class.

Full audio podcast is here, which is 33 minutes, and 6 videos are listed here, which is 17 minutes. Below are a few of them...


"Bernard Moon, CEO of Vidquik and Co-founder of SparkLabs, discusses the Silicon Valley style startup accelerator [SparkLabs] that provides support for Korean startups to take their business global and how it has been based on the Israeli model for success, in a discussion with Nikita Desai, Director of Policy & Corporate Programs at The Korea Society."


"Bernard Moon,CEO of Vidquik and Co-founder of Sparklabs, discusses ways to expand Korean startups globally and explore strategic international partnerships."


"Bernard Moon,CEO of Vidquik and Co-founder of Sparklabs, and David Joo, Co-founder and Co-CEO of KnowRe, address a question from the audience about protecting intellectual property while sharing ideas with venture capitalists in the race to execution of a startup."

Next 2013: Conference on Innovation and The Future

We are hosting a pretty kickass conference on June 14th in Seoul exploring technology, innovation and future trends. The lineup of speakers is awesome with Ray Ozzie, Richard Florida, Catherine Mohr and others. These slides provide details on this event that I've been working on.

Next 2013: Conference on Innovation and The Future from Bernard Moon

The 10 Myths of Entrepreneurship

Pretty good overview...

iSteve from Funny or DIe

iSteve... Check it out.

ELYSIUM - Official Trailer

SparkLabs Overview of First Class 2013

SparkLabs Overview of First Class 2013 from Bernard Moon

Harlem Shake (Lego Middle Earth Edition)

SAMSUNG CAMERA INSIGHT (Cannes Lions 2012)

CANNES, FILM, GOLD WINNER
Cheil Worldwide created a campaign for Samsung’s INsight that involved holding a special photography class for visually impaired children. The heartwarming ad shows the kids first interacting with the camera by touch, before taking an outdoor workshop to learn what makes an image worth capturing, even if you can’t see it.

TEDTalk: Hyeonseo Lee, "My escape from North Korea"

"HTC One Wows With Stunning Design, Premium Parts" CNET

To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan

Leno's President Obama's Handicap Joke

Is Pop Genetics the New Phrenology?

Christine and I attended the NetKAL Distinguished Speaker Dinner this past Saturday and heard one of the more fascinating talks given at a NetKAL event. The speaker was Dr. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee who is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford and "a medical anthropologist whose work probes the social and cultural contexts of emerging genetic technologies and their application in biomedicine."

She discussed the implications of two recent articles and genetic studies that had the media buzzing. First, was Po Bronson's NYTimes article, "Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?", which discussed the COMT gene that could explain why a child might be a "worrier" vs. a "warrior" or how well a child handles pressure. Dr. Lee talked about how Bronson was writing about how this translated into better taking test abilities if you a "warrior" and how Asians were 4 times less likely to be a "worrier" than white Europeans. This then somehow explained why Asians and Asian Americans do better on standardized tests. Increased quotas at top universities anyone?

Another recent study Dr. Lee discussed was the "leadership gene." How some gene sequence (couldn't find the exact article she referred to) can indicate whether a person would be a strong leader or not. There was a specific gene sequence within this set that almost signified a person would become a "superstar" leader. I hope I'm not misquoting Dr. Lee, but I believe she said if you were a white European you had a 60% chance of having this gene sequence, 10% if you were Asian American and 5% if you were African American.

First, when I heard this there were obvious questions about how did these researchers define "leadership" and what were their sample sets. Second, this immediately reminded me of the scene in "Django Unchained", which I saw a few weeks ago with Christine. Calvin Candie, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, discussed a theory of phrenology, which was the popular pseudoscience during those times. The scene took me back to my high school history courses, and if you read the transcript that echoed in my head during Dr. Lee's talk you'll understand why:

"This is Ben. He's an old joe that lived around here for a long time, and I do mean a long damn time. Old Ben here took care of my daddy and my daddy's daddy. Till he up and keeled over one day, old Ben took care of me. Growin' up the son of a huge plantation owner in Mississippi puts a white man in contact with a whole lotta black faces. I spent my whole life here, right here in Candieland, surrounded by black faces. Now seein' 'em every day, day in and day out, I only had one question: why don't they kill us?

Now right out there on that porch, three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now, if I was old Ben, I woulda cut my daddy's goddamn throat, an' it wouldn't-a taken me no fifty years of doin' neither. But he never did. Why not? See, the science of phrenology is crucial to understandin' the separation of our two species. [Picking up a hacksaw] And the skull of the African here? The area associated with submissiveness is larger than any human or any other sub-human species on planet Earth."

To be honest, I haven't researched or read the reports on the "leadership gene," but on the surface it reminded me of phrenology which was used to justified slavery and positions of power within our society. You can almost hear some crazies and idiots out there already stating:

"The science of genetics proves that Asians are not meant to be leaders of corporations... proves why there aren't many black NBA coaches... Asian American shouldn't be managers of teams... they lack that gene which helps them become natural leaders... only an exceptional Asian or Black man or woman can become a Fortune 500 CEO..."

So the questions for me to ask after attending Dr. Lee's talk was how well-regarded are these recent research studies among the scientific community? And will pop genetics become the new phrenology?

Nexus 4: Live in the Now

Samsung Mobile USA - The Next Big Thing (Full Super Bowl Commercial)

Full Super Bowl commercial is up already.

Gangnam Style - PSY (Jayesslee Cover)