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On the Role of Hosting.

Your job is to hold the space, provide a comfortable environment for people to explore the questions to find out what others think about a topic. Hosting is a dynamic, honest, humble process.

It contributes to weaving a community that builds critical thinking and social engagement.

• We are building a community, American Industrial Dynamism, because we believe supporting startups is an effective way of restoring the industrial base of the united states.

• We have a few prompting questions to get the conversation started. | | Reset scripts | - We are building this community, American Industrial Dynamism, because we believe supporting startups is the way to restore the industrial base of the United States.

Our goals today are:

• Generate and share useful insights to advance industrial startups
• Build a support network to help these startups succeeed
• Direct attention to critical national problems | | Intro yourself | I am Pablo, I’m part of the founding team at American Industrial Dynamism. Before, I was an engineer working on Uber AIs platform.

[Before that I was deploying industrial scale solar across the states and LatAm.] | | Intro the topic | Today, we are talking about problem discovery in industrial startups. We will cover how others have found the gaps that need to be filled, how do they formulate and validate their hypotheses, and broadly, the approach they’ve taken in the earliest stages of starting an industrial startup.

We’ll be joined by amazing founders like:

• Solange from Ecoatoms, they’re developing compounds and medical devices on-orbit
• Garret from Pipedream Labs, they’re building the future of delivery — which is underground. Amazing ideas.
• <...> | | Transitioning the prompt questions | Let’s get started with the first question.

We want to hear a short intro from the speakers and jump into our first question which is <...> | | How to transition between topics/questions | - “That’s a great point, and it’s also a great segway into our next topic, which is”

• “Alright, let’s move on to the next question”
• “I think this leads us to our next question which is” | | How to get participants to riff off each other | - “Just a reminder that at any point you can jump in to build on the discussion”
• “Is there anyone in the room who wants to riff/build on that?”
• “Would anyone in the room be interested in coming up to speak about X?”
• “Is there anyone who’d like to ask a question to the room? Come up and intro yourself”
• “When you introduce yourself, share an ask for the rest of the room”
• DM people to ask if they want to come up | | Ways to keep it interesting and inclusive | - (curiosity) Do you want to tell us more about ...
• (instinct to counter) This is what I heard you said ... is this what you meant?
• I’m curious to hear more about X, what led you to this point of view?
• If someone agrees with you, what if the opposite was true?
• (if you don’t understand) Can you rephrase that one more time?
• (if someone holds a different opinion) Does someone wants to offer another point of view?
• (if someone is ready to speak for a while) X, you’ve raised your hand a while back, do you want to share your view?
• (more clarification) Do you want to help us understand that better with an example? | | Questions from the audience | - If you want to bring forward a question, please click in the emoji and we’ll queue you to speak
• If you want to leave us feedback, use our form attached in the tweet. | | Closing remarks | - “Thanks again everyone for attending and participating in the conversation”
• “We are going to roll up the notes taken and post them in the upcoming days along with the recording”
• “Please helps us by” + plug
• What surprised you?
• We hope this topic inspires someone to go solve problems for the industry and start new companies | | Troubleshooting | - Sorry to interrupt but let’s try to wrap up this idea to continue with the agenda. If we have more time in the end we can go back to this. | | How to open up the conversation | - Offer an insight
• Help focus the discussion
• State an opinion
• Raise or answer questions | | General vocabulary | • To outline • To clarify • To highlight • To emphasize • To walk you through • To carry on • To sum up • To focus on —- Repeat same message with different wording
• In other words
• To put it more simply
• So, what I’m saying is that
• Let me say that again —-
• This brings us up to the end of the conversation
• We’d be interested in hearing your comments and insights from today in the form we’re attaching to the Spaces —-
• That’s a great question, I’m not 100% sure, but from the top of my head .. |