Aman is Cao Cao nick name and he would call Aman repeatedly until he answers Cao Cao spent the most of his early years with loyalty.
Amanda is a writer and linguist from Baltimore, who, in addition to her most recent New York Times bestseller, has also authored the books "Word Slut" and "Cultish."
Amanda Montell, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the "Talks At Google." Thank you so much for having me.
Amanda just wants to drop a note of appreciation to you.
Amanda Martinez is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Mexican and South African descent whose music is an original blend of influences from her roots.
Amanda has also been recognized as the best world music artist at the Toronto Independent Music Awards and was awarded as one of the top 10
Amanda, thank you so much for that wonderful performance.
Amanda was the power behind the Sexual Assault Survivors Rights Act, the 21st bill in modern US history to pass unanimously through Congress.
Amanda, thanks so much for being with us today.
Amanda? I literally like slank-- is that a word?
Amani. "Amani" means peace.
Amanda goes right for the truth of the food, you know?
Amanda previously worked in technical roles at both Salesforce and Google and holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in information systems
Amanda, what are you playing?
Amanda? It's on the page, man.
Amani that Civilization is I think one that's open both to radical experiments with
-Amanda come on in.
Amanda, but you're not actually special" in my techno remix of 'Creep' by Radiohead.
Amanda Palmer, who just know me as a person.
Amanda. But you're not actually special," in my techno remix of "Creep," by Radiohead.
Amanda Palmer is a musician.
Amanda Alonzo: I think innovation is the ability to look at a problem or a question in a new way.
Amanda: Thanks for having me.
Amanda: Mostly just being very pregnant.
Amanda: She'll be at the hospital, thankfully Presenter: She'd be actually able to see her baby. That's a good thing. So Amanda can
Amanda: Well, I started by cooking. I was in college studying finance and economics and I was, you know, kind of lost and so, started -- I did a study abroad at the London
Amanda: France had this crazy thing called Minitel. Do you know Minitel? Oh you know it. It was like Minitel and e-mail. That's pretty
Amanda: Exactly. You know when you want -- you need to express yourself in some way, writing was the form that sort of made sense then and I got some lucky breaks. So then
Amanda: Boredom one. I mean, the thing is like because I didn't intend to become a writer, I don't think like I was necessarily like born to be a writer for the rest of my life.
Amanda: Yeah, I sort of feel like I had the perfect acting career because I got a part. I ended up actually in the movie and then I never had to tryout again.
Amanda: We had a problem we wanted to solve and we decided to try to get at that solution with a very simple proof of concept. The problem we wanted to solve was that like, in the early
Amanda: It was like too much. But then on the other side was this other interesting thing that was going on which, of course, was the explosion of food blogs. And the thing
Amanda: Print was sort of -- that was part of, but that wasn't our goal. Our goal was to build a business. We wanted to prove that our theory was right and there was a business
Amanda: Couple of reasons. One was like a business reason. Nobody is going to give us money to just build a site. Yes, we could do that, but I knew the issues involved with
Amanda: The second book? It will be another Food 52 cookbook.
Amanda: Yes. So technically we should have started our third book last September. And we decided instead to create an iPad app which I'll show you as well.
Amanda: I can't say. It's like choosing between your children.
Amanda: There's so many that I like. I'm just going to name one and I'm sure you know.
Amanda: That's a perfect one.
Amanda: It's not -- you can shallow fry so you don't have to deep fry.
Amanda: I just want to show you what we're up to and all that.
Amanda: All right. So this is great. Come along. So this is our site. And I just want to give you kind of a quick tour on -- it's very curated. So most of the pictures that
Amanda: See, now we have hot line. So we created Food 52 Hotline and the idea is you can ask any food or cooking question. You can mark it as urgent. You -- and you can
Amanda: I know. What is up? I was just on there. Look at the contests. They're great.
Amanda: Probably. Not yet.
Amanda: So we are working on -- what is next? Well, we're going to spend a lot of time on hot line because we just have seen, I think, mostly through the app that like
Amanda: Yeah. Yeah. You know because we do -- we tend to like a company do the -- you know we like -- we experiment a lot and we put things up not unfinished all the time.
Amanda: is community building.
Amanda: Difficult. Presenter: Food bloggers are Amanda: Energetic.
Amanda: It's more like this obsession over like the minute details of pizza and hamburgers.