Best Running On Rooftops Podcasts (2024)

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Powering the World’s Hackathons | Brandon Kessler (Founder & CEO, DevPost) 27:48

1d ago27:48

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DevPost powers most of the world’s hackathons. And, according to founder and CEO Brandon Kessler, lately there is one overarching directive: “Executives from the top down are saying: `We need to do hackathons to uncover the value of ai.`” Nearly every one of the 1,200 hackathons DevPost powered last year was AI-centric. On this episode of CRAFTED.,…

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Solving Dinner & Building Wonder | Rich Przekop (VP, Product at Wonder) 30:45

8d ago30:45

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Wonder aims to be a “super app for mealtime”, with people turning to it for everything from delivery to groceries to meal kits and more... It’s a very ambitious food-tech startup founded by Marc Lore, the legendary founder who previously built, scaled, and sold Diapers.com and Jet.com (to Amazon and Walmart, respectively). Wonder is rapidly opening…

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Listen to Developers! | Justin Cormack (CTO, Docker) 32:32

15d ago32:32

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When Docker restructured, the company went back to its roots: super-serving developers. CTO Justin Cormack says that’s why the company is developer-obsessed, not customer-obsessed: “We really wanted to focus on the fact that it's the developer who loves Docker. It's the developer who is going to be using Docker every day…” Over the past decade, Doc…

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New Frontiers of Health: AI, Psychedelics, the Gut-Brain Axis, and More! | Live from SXSW 43:30

22d ago43:30

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Software, hardware, and biotechnology are playing an increasingly transformative role in our mental health and wellness. On this episode of CRAFTED., recorded live on the “Next” stage at SXSW, we discuss what investors look for in these new companies and how they separate what’s real — and what’s near-term — from what’s hype. On stage with host Dan…

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How BetterUp Leverages AI + Human Coaches to Help People and Companies Flourish | Gabriella Rosen Kellerman (Chief Product and Innovation Officer) 23:49

30d ago23:49

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Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman is the Chief Product and Innovation Officer at BetterUp, a multi-billion dollar startup that helps people and companies level up. Through a combination of human coaching and AI, BetterUp is able to offer the kind of executive coaching that used to be reserved for... executives. On this episode of CRAFTED. we dig into h…

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Making Music With AI – And Doing So Ethically | Diaa El All, Founder & CEO of Soundful 28:05

1M ago28:05

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Diaa El All is the founder and CEO of Soundful, which enables anyone to create brand new music in just a few seconds with AI. And on this episode of CRAFTED., we are literally making music. We’re also talking about the ethics of using AI to make music. Diaa has been very outspoken about what he sees as the misguided practices of other AI+music comp…

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Asana’s Head of AI on the Profound Ways Work Is Changing | Paige Costello (Head of AI & Co-Head of Product Management at Asana) 31:38

1M ago31:38

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Paige Costello is the the head of AI and co-head of product at Asana and on this episode of CRAFTED. we're exploring what it means to ship products with AI, how AI will change the way work gets done, and how to organize your teams for success in this brave new world. We explore: How the future of work – and communicating about work – is changing Wh…

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How to Grow Your Startup. Featuring “Growth Levers and How to Find Them” Author and Startup Advisor Matt Lerner (Founder & CEO, SYSTM) 33:47

3M ago33:47

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“So if you take any great startup and look backwards, you'll see that 90 percent of their growth came from like 10 percent of the stuff that they tried. So how do you find that 10 percent as quickly as possible?” Matt Lerner has advised hundreds of startups on how to grow. Now, the CEO of SYSTM has written a book called Growth Levers and How to Fin…

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The April Fool’s Gag That Presaged the Future of Product Management | Janna Bastow (Founder & CEO of ProdPad & Founder, Mind The Product) 25:42

3M ago25:42

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On April 1st, 2013, ProdPad promised something revolutionary: “We now take your backlog of ideas, and with highly advanced big data crunching algorithm technology, automagically render a complete and accurate product roadmap. [...] The Auto-Roadmap Tool not only builds itself, but also covers for the hardest part of the Product Manager’s job: Getti…

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Live from SXSW! The Impromptu Rooftop Episode 25:49

3M ago25:49

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Enjoy this bonus, happy hour edition of CRAFTED., recorded live during SXSW. It’s a very unCRAFTED. CRAFTED. Featuring four innovators on a rooftop in Austin talking about what struck them at this year’s SXSW. Kick back and unwind with Christie Nicholson (Founder of the Studio for Communicating Complexity), Kwaku Aning (Director, Center for Innovat…

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How to Navigate the Whitewater World of Work | Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman (Chief Product & Innovation Officer at BetterUp and Author of Tomorrowmind) 28:16

4M ago28:16

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Career trajectories used to be like steamships: full steam ahead. And then they became more like sailboats: lots of tacking. But now… we’re swirling in whitewater. And, as the Chief Product and Innovation Officer at BetterUp, Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman helps people build the skill they need to flourish: “When you're kayaking in the whitewater. I…

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“You Have to Invest Into Change.” Startup Lessons from Fintech OG and VC Daniel Kimerling, Founder of Deciens Capital and Standard Treasury 29:17

4M ago29:17

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“You have to invest into change. You cannot invest into stasis. Daniel Kimerling has a keen eye for the trends, technologies, and cultural shifts that are going to be big. A decade ago, he took an insight – that developers needed powerful tool so they could embed banking services into their apps – and launched Standard Treasury, the very first bank…

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Crafted Highlights from 2023 (Our New Trailer) 8:09

5M ago8:09

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A highlight reel that will will help you find great episodes in the Crafted show archive, featuring some of the incredible founders and product builders we featured in 2023. You'll hear voices belonging to the founders of Gusto, Lattice, Monte Carlo, Moov, Wevr, PS, as well as from senior leaders at AWS, Redesign Health, Betterment, Flatiron Health…

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Using AI to Reduce Carbon Emissions on the High Seas | Todd Sundsted, Former CTO of Nautilus Labs 16:43

5M ago16:43

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We're not building a set of blogs or something like that where the domain is well understood. We're really pushing the forefront of what people are doing with vessels and optimization. "The effect of global shipping on the climate is hard to overstate," reports The New York Times. "Cargo shipping is responsible for nearly 3 percent of global greenh…

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Microgravity Is Special: Computer Chips and Cancer Treatments May Soon Be Made There. | Jana Stoudemire (Director of In-Space Manufacturing, Axiom Space) 25:01

6M ago25:01

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** Please take this three-minute survey to help us create more great Crafted episodes. http://tinyurl.com/craftedsurvey ** Last week, on Thursday January 18th at 4:49pm Eastern, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its way to the International Space Station. On board are 4 …

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Why “The Right Mindset” Is Key to Shipping Great Software | Edward Kim, Co-founder & CTO of Gusto 22:47

7M ago22:47

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“I was a pretty bad people manager and so there was a moment where I decided that this is not going to work and I really need to decide which path I'm gonna go. Am I gonna stay hands on keyboard or am I going to really help build the engineering team and scale the organization?” Edward Kim is the CTO and co-founder of Gusto, a multi-billion dollar …

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Taking GenAI From Prototype to Production. A Special NYC Tech Week Live Event. Featuring Leaders from AWS, Flatiron Health, Predibase, and Bauplan 43:55

8M ago43:55

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“The last nine months, no matter what we want to talk about, our customers want to talk about one thing, which is Gen AI.” One year ago, ChatGPT woke the entire world up to the possibilities of Generative AI. Since then, the conversation around AI has not ceased, with constant questions being raised about its safety, accuracy, and potential implica…

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How to Go Fast and Not Break Things: Why Great Brakes Help You Accelerate and Innovate. Featuring John Mileham, CTO of Betterment 24:41

8M ago24:41

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“Nobody's going to drive as fast on the straightaway if they don't have good brakes because if that's not available, then you can't go fast confidently.” John Mileham is the CTO of Betterment, and he’s also a race car driving instructor. Though they seem like vastly different roles, he has the same focus in both: going fast but doing so safely. Bet…

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Waves filtering through rocks on Hawaiian beach 1 hour 1:18:51

8M ago1:18:51

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Extremely satisfying sounds of waves crashing on Hawaiian beaches and filtering through the rocks, recording locally on the island of Hawaii! For 1 hour--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Sleepsounds/support

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Don’t Throw Spaghetti at the Wall: How to Build an MVP at a Big Enterprise. Featuring Neil Caron, Product and Design Leader at Gartner 24:57

8M ago24:57

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“The lean startup and MVP model is absolutely the right mindset to have, but that doesn't mean that you have to throw spaghetti at the wall.” Neil Caron, Product and Design Leader at Gartner, is doing something hard: helping a big company to innovate. Gartner is the company many technology buyers turn to for advice when they’re looking to buy missi…

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Enough Putting Lipstick on the Pig: Why Moov Is Rebuilding Payment Infrastructure from the Ground Up. Featuring CEO Wade Arnold 26:13

9M ago26:13

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“Being a part of financial services for the last 15 or 20 years, it seemed like we were always putting lipstick on the pig”. Wade Arnold was tired of putting a nice UI on creaky infrastructure and he saw how insufficient payment systems are for today’s internet-based businesses. So Wade founded Moov, a fintech that's building systems for the way mo…

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Putting People First: How Jack Altman Built Lattice Into an Employee Performance Powerhouse 25:07

9M ago25:07

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“We just experienced these pains of people feeling unsatisfied, they didn't necessarily feel like there were easy opportunities to be listened to by the company.” CEO Jack Altman is determined to help make work meaningful, and founding Lattice is a big part of that goal. Lattice is an employee performance and engagement software company that wants …

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Microgravity, FTW! Why Advanced Computer Chips and Cancer Treatments May Soon Be Made…IN SPACE. Featuring Jana Stoudemire, Director of In-Space Manufacturing, Axiom Space 23:46

10M ago23:46

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“When we talk about future cities in space, it seems like they're really far away. The truth is, it's happening right now. We're building those.” That’s the mind-blowing reality that Jana Stoudemire works in everyday at Axiom Space, a leading space infrastructure developer based in Texas. Axiom is building a successor to the International Space Sta…

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Building Better Data Networks for the People – and Machines! – of Tomorrow. Featuring Ali Shaikh, Chief Product Officer of Graphiant 28:01

10M ago28:01

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"People using this isn't the thing I'm thinking about. Human beings can tolerate high latency and delays to a certain level. Machines cannot. AI cannot, IoT cannot." As Chief Product Officer of Graphiant, Ali Shaikh is building data networks that are flexible, secure, and ready to meet the demands of the next generation of people – and devices. And…

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How Monte Carlo Prevents Data Downtime, Featuring Founder & CEO, Barr Moses 24:37

11M ago24:37

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“This problem was so painful and so meaningful to people that I just couldn't believe a world where a solution to this didn't exist.” When Barr Moses identified the very costly problem of what she coined “data downtime”, she knew she needed to solve it. Barr is the Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, a data observability platform that’s on a mission to…

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How Data Teams Can Run An Offensive Playbook, Featuring Sol Rashidi, Former Chief Analytics Officer at Estée Lauder 24:28

11M ago24:28

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“It's not columns and rows, but it's the fact that you could fundamentally increase consumer retention, consumer attention, consumer experience, and that's the fun stuff.” That’s how Sol Rashidi pitched a data and analytics mindset to the world’s biggest companies, back before data was King (and AI became Queen). Sol is the former Chief Analytics O…

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How Egnyte Found – And Keeps Finding – Its Niche. Featuring VP of Product Greg Neustaetter 25:02

12M ago25:02

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“You attract security conscious customers. They push you and ask for more security focused features. You build those, you attract more of those companies.” That’s how Greg Neustaetter helped Egnyte find its niche, providing industrial-grade cloud file storage for compliance-focused clients. Greg has spent 11 years at Egnyte and as VP of Product, he…

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Night rain on the rooftop for sleep 1:03:04

12M ago1:03:04

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A gentle soft pitter patter of midnight rain falling on the rooftop as you doze off to sleep….💤💤 sleep sounds for falling asleep--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Sleepsounds/support

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Fighting Cancer With Data | Cat Miller (CTO, Flatiron Health) 23:35

1y ago23:35

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“Anyone who knows anything about drug development would say it is a slow and painful process”. Cat Miller is CTO at Flatiron Health, a software company that uses technology to “clean up all the gunk in the trials industry”. Flatiron helps researchers develop new cancer treatments by making clinical trials run smarter and faster. They also identify …

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Digital Makeover: Upgrading the Barbershop, Featuring Kush Patel, Founder and CTO of theCut 23:19

1y ago23:19

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“Barbershops have historically been a very cash-dominated business. And shaking that mentality is probably the biggest challenge.” Kush Patel knew that the iconic but old-school world of barbering needed a digital upgrade, so he founded theCut, a barber booking app that helps clients find a barber and then book and pay for their cut. It also helps …

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Exercise 2.0: Building Tech to Electrify Your Workout and Stimulate Better Results, Featuring Bjoern Woltermann, Founder and CEO of Katalyst 27:18

1y ago27:18

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“We haven’t invented a new way to work out since the ancient Greeks. With electro muscular stimulation, we're breaking that.” Invention is a big part of everything Bjoern Woltermann did at Katalyst to bring electro muscular stimulation, or EMS, to the US market – and to US homes. EMS workouts have been around for decades, but typically only in a ph…

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Babbling Brook sleep sounds 18:36

1y ago18:36

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A babbling brook with some thunder yo fall peacefully asleep to--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Sleepsounds/support

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3D and XR and AI, Oh My! How Wevr Is Enabling Creators to Be More…Creative. Featuring CEO Nev Spiteri 24:04

1y ago24:04

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Working with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Jon Favreau, Nev Spiteri has created some of film and gaming’s most incredible visual sequences. Now the CEO of Wevr has gone all in on building software to enable others to create their own virtual worlds — and to do so seamlessly via the cloud. The goal is to help creators spend more tim…

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Launching 100 Startups to Transform the Healthcare Industry, Featuring Kira Wampler, Venture Chair and Head of Startup Success at Redesign Health 25:09

1y ago25:09

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“Highly complex consumer journeys, lots of entrenched interests, very challenging stakeholder management, and extremely important to your life”. That’s the magic mixture of business interests that Kira Wampler says speaks her love language. Those passions led her to Redesign Health, a company whose mission is to transform healthcare. So far, Redesi…

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Gentle rain with chirping birds 1:48:11

1y ago1:48:11

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Gentle rain putter patter with birds chirping in the background. So peaceful :)--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Sleepsounds/support

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Agile Development Gives You Wings: How Red Bull Reached New Heights, Featuring Product & Engineering Leader Jon Walton 18:15

1y ago18:15

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“Your business applications should be just as intuitive as every other app or website or anything else that you're engaging with in your day-to-day lives”. That’s the product-led approach that Jon Walton took as an engineering leader at Red Bull, where he spent nearly a decade working on the apps that help the energy drink maker run the extreme spo…

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From Start-Up to Scale-Up: Growth Stage Wisdom From Tommi Forsstrom, CPO at Workstep 23:59

1y ago23:59

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“Their revenue growth is stalling. Their cost of mistakes is going up, and everything is stalling and slowing and getting harder.” For most people that doesn’t sound like a job opportunity with much appeal, but it’s the point where Tommi Forsstrom usually joins a startup. Tommi is a product management executive who specializes in helping companies …

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Reimagining the Airport Experience. Featuring Amina Belouizdad Porter (CEO) & Leigh Rodwick (VP of Technology and Analytics) at PS 23:24

1+ y ago23:24

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“The number one thing we offer our customers is the feeling of not being in an airport.” PS operates a VIP luxury terminal at LAX, with more airports coming soon. Their travelers enjoy high security, luxurious lounges and private suites, great food, and a ride across the tarmac directly to their first-class seats on their commercial flight. But in …

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A Recruiter Spills the Beans: Tips to Help You Get Your Next Tech Gig, Featuring Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium 21:26

1+ y ago21:26

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There’s turmoil in tech right now, so here’s a special episode for job-seekers looking for their next great gig. On this episode of Crafted, Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium, shares tips on how to position yourself, how to talk to recruiters, what *not* to put on your resume, and so much more. Plus, she’ll share her philosophy on talent acq…

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Incubating Startups That Solve Massive Social Challenges. Featuring Sonali Zaveri, Design and Operations Lead at Ideas42 Ventures 23:11

1+ y ago23:11

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“There was just no way I could say no”. That was how Sonali Zaveri felt about working with Ideas42 Ventures, after learning about the first cohort of entrepreneurs she would advise. Ideas42 Ventures is a venture studio that aims to solve massive social problems by helping founders with lived experience launch companies that address issues like pove…

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Running Experiments That Actually Move the Needle | Andres Glusman (Founder, CEO of DoWhatWorks) [re-broadcast] 22:19

1+ y ago22:19

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For those of you who are brand new to Crafted, this week we’re revisiting our very first episode where we featured experimentation master, Lean Startup Pioneer Andres Glusman: “It's a crime. It's such a waste of time.” That’s how Andres Glusman feels about so many of the tests product teams run. That’s why the former head of product at Meetup found…

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From 4 Slides to $4 Billion: A Master Class on Customer Validation and Rapid Iteration, Featuring Jon Walker, Co-founder and CTO at AppFolio 23:44

1+ y ago23:44

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How Jon Walker spotted a trend, validated an opportunity, sold his solution before even building it, and created a multi-billion dollar company via the “unfair advantage” of rapid iteration. Back in 2007, Jon saw desktop software everywhere… at restaurants, doctors’ offices, the gym…and he realized it was all gonna move to the web. “So what’s the o…

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Put It on the Blockchain! Featuring Instamint Founder Jamiel Sheikh. Recorded Live in New York at a Special Fintech & Crypto Event 22:58

1+ y ago22:58

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Jamiel Sheikh is the founder of three different companies all serving the crypto space: Chainhaus, CBDC Think Tank, and most recently, Instamint, which he says will do for tokens what Stripe did for payments, i.e. make it super easy. In this episode we talk about the “unsexy” problems Instamint is solving for enterprises that want to leverage the b…

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Tech For Democracy. Featuring Yemi Adewunmi, COO at Civic Eagle 22:07

1+ y ago22:07

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It’s not every day you meet someone who gets ultra excited by the legislative process, but Yemi Adewunmi finds it inspiring: “Why be an innovator if you're not going to be optimistic?”. And that’s one of the reasons she founded Civic Eagle, a startup that helps policy professionals and lobbyists track and collaborate on bills as they wind through C…

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Live From New York: A Special Episode on Fintech Innovation, Featuring Ainslie Simmonds, President of PershingX at Bank of New York Mellon, and D. Orlando Keise, Head of Banking Foundational Platform at ... 40:39

1+ y ago40:39

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This special episode of Crafted was recorded live at Rise, Created by Barclays, an incubator for fintech startups. In this fireside chat, we speak with Ainslie Simmonds, President of PershingX at Bank of New York Mellon, and D. Orlando Keise, head of Banking Foundational Platform at UBS. Ainslie is building a modern wealth management platform and D…

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In Till We Trust: Building Software for Housing Security, Featuring Johnny Ray Austin, CTO at Till 20:08

1+ y ago20:08

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When a recruiter from Till first reached out to Johnny Ray Austin, he didn’t hesitate: “The answer was no. Flat out”. But it turns out Johnny Ray couldn’t have been more wrong about the startup, and what he’d interpreted as a potentially exploitative loan scheme is actually a life-changing new platform that helps renters stay in their homes. On thi…

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Lights, 3D Camera, AI! How Tech Is Transforming the Construction Industry, Featuring Jeevan Kalanithi, Founder & CEO of OpenSpace 20:09

1+ y ago20:09

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What do you get when you combine 3D cameras mounted on construction workers’ hard hats + visual recognition technology + artificial intelligence? You get OpenSpace, a fascinating startup that’s using new technologies to reduce costs and inefficiencies in the construction industry. OpenSpace enables builders to track progress remotely, without havin…

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Running Experiments That Actually Move the Needle | Andres Glusman (Founder and CEO of DoWhatWorks) 21:46

1+ y ago21:46

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“It's a crime. It's such a waste of time.” That’s how Andres Glusman feels about so many of the tests product teams run. That’s why the former head of product at Meetup founded DoWhatWorks, a company that enables you to see – and learn from – the A/B tests that other companies are running. Rather than test button color for the umpteenth time, Andre…

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Features Will Not Save You. Featuring Chris Ladd, Founder and CEO of Better Notes 23:16

1+ y ago23:16

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“Are you making something that is solving a real problem for people?” That’s the question on Chris Ladd’s mind whenever he’s tempted to design a new app feature. Chris’s iOS app ChordBank has been downloaded millions of times; it gives guitar players tools to expand on and improve their craft. With a chord library, lessons and games that use monoph…

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Highlights 7:16

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Crafted is a Webby-honored top technology podcast about great products and the people who make them. Featuring incredible entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders from product, engineering, design, and data telling stories that reveal how amazing products and companies came to life. What trade-offs did they make? What experiments did they run? And wh…

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