Best Pek Pongpaet Podcasts (2024)

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S6E10 An interview with Natalia Vargas, Director of Product Design for Cariloop 25:03

1+ y ago25:03

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Natalia is a design leader from La Paz, Bolivia and now works in Dallas, Texas as Director of Product Design for Cariloop, a caregiver support company focused on relieving the stress and anxiety felt by all caregivers. After interning at advertising agencies she fell in love with the interaction design portions of campaigns and quickly transitioned…

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S6E9 How to find job opportunities with Meesh Lin, Product Designer at Okta 47:36

1+ y ago47:36

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Meesh Lin began designing and launching websites at age eight by learning from her self-taught web designer mother. She's had an unconventional path to design—having freelanced, contracted, and designed-in house for start-ups and public companies over the last 6+ years. Today, Meesh is designing Okta's first consumer product. Inspired by her design…

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S6E8 AI, and what it means for the future of design with Peter Szalontay 42:26

1+ y ago42:26

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Peter Szalontay is the DataGoat/CEO at DataMilk, it is a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predictive digital experiences that boost user engagement and gross profit. In this episode, we talked about: How Ar…

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S6E7 An interview with Alicia Warren, Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling 34:56

1+ y ago34:56

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Alicia is a Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling - the platform that frees smart people to work on hard problems! She has been a designer across industries, including higher education, academia, insurance, pharmacy, e-commerce, and technology, and is an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia College, where she focuses on how to prepare for m…

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S6E6 An Interview with Erick Arias, Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) 32:32

1+ y ago32:32

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Erick Arias is an Experienced Product Designer with a demonstrated history of transforming the way enterprises build software. He is currently the Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) In this episode, we talked about: Erick’s advice and tips with portfolio reviews How did Erick get into design Where did Erick grow up and …

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S6E5 An interview with Nima H. K., Design Director at First Republic 42:06

2y ago42:06

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Nima H. K. graduated from York/Sheridan Program in Design, and is a passionate storyteller obsessed with user experience and telling the right story at the right time. Currently a design director in San Francisco, and just recently designed and built a SaaS product from scratch. He has 16+ years of experience working as a freelancer, at design agen…

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S6E4 An interview with Glen Lipka, Product Design Leader 46:48

2y ago46:48

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Glen Lipka is a product leader who has created innovative products for B2B companies since 1995. Previously, he was the first employee at Marketo, best in class marketing automation software acquired by Adobe and helped guide the company through IPO up to 1000 employees in 9 years. He holds several patents in design innovations. In this episode, we…

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S6E3 An interview with Ari Krzyzek, Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia 29:08

2y ago29:08

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Ari Krzyzek is the Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia), she helps Femtech DTC and women-led companies craft a brand that delights their customers beyond a pretty design, delivers no-brainer user experience, and gets them the clarity they need to for their business to thrive online. She has over 10 years of bra…

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S6E2 An interview with Erik Kennedy, Designer & CEO at Learn UI Design 32:44

2y ago32:44

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Erik Kennedy is the creator of Learn UI Design and Learn UX Design. He’s also a freelance UX/UI designer based in Seattle, WA. He has also spoken in the US and abroad at businesses, meetups, and universities (like UC Berkeley, Yale, and UW). His design writing has been read by over a million people. In this episode, we talked about: How Erik got in…

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S3E9 An interview with Jeroen Courthout, Founder at Salesflare 38:47

2y ago38:47

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Jeroen Corthout is the Founder at SalesFlare, an intelligent CRM startups and small businesses love to use. It's a zero-input sales pipeline tool that thinks and works for its user, not the other way around. No more manual data entry. Salesflare fills out address book and keeps track of all interactions with the people users in contact with. Jeroen…

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S6E1 An interview with Jeany Ngo, Co-Founder at Kairos 33:03

2y ago33:03

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Jeany Ngo is the co-founder at Kairos, which provides the tools for anyone to create, publish and sell NFTs without touching a single line of code. She blends her love of visual storytelling with thoughtful understanding of user behavior. 10+ years in product, UX/UI, and visual design comes from working at Brex, Airbnb, LinkedIn and consulting for …

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S5E10 An Interview with Marissa Louie, Sr. Director of Design at Pandora and SiriusXM 42:01

2y ago42:01

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Marissa Louie is the Director of UX Design at SiriusXM Pandora, she leads a design organization that thoughtfully creates experiences for 100m+ users. She also serves as the Chairwoman of Animoodles, and runs Designers Club and Designers Guild. Previously, she was a design leader at Apple, Expedia, Ness, and Yahoo. It brings her joy to design delig…

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S5E9 An Interview with Pawel Bak, Lead Product Designer, Manager at AbbVie 29:06

2y ago29:06

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Pawel Bak is a strategic and passionate product/service designer with 12+ years of experience designing for mobile, wearables and IoT devices. Designs and helps develop high-performing design solutions and engaging customer experiences which drive business goals and user satisfaction for well-known brands. An innovative and hard-working leader who …

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S5E8 An Interview with Sarah Higgins, Experience Designer at Patagonia 39:12

2y ago39:12

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Sarah is currently the Experience Designer at Patagonia. She also worked with Google, Pinterest and Nike, leading strategy and UX in a highly collaborative work environment. Mentored junior staff. Participated in the hiring process, project casting and scoping. She makes experiences by orchestrating cross-disciplinary teams of designers, writers, d…

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S5E7 An Interview with Katie Swindler, Innovation Design Strategist at AllState, author 33:40

2y ago33:40

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Katie Swindler is a human-centered design strategist with 15 years of experience. Originally educated as a theatre director, her creative approach combines storytelling and technology, emotion and utility to enable brands to connect deeply with consumers and fulfill real human needs. Author of the book Life & Death Design, published by Rosenfeld Me…

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S5E6 An Interview with Nicole Torgersen, Vice President of Design at Dialpad 42:57

2y ago42:57

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Nicole Torgersen is Vice President of Design at Dialpad. She’s been working in digital design since the late '90s working with a range of industries including cloud collab and storage at Dropbox, retail at Gap, and recruiting at Monster Worldwide. A Design craftsperson by trade, Nicole has been a leader most of her career, building teams by way of …

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S5E5 An Interview with Ryan Tauss, Ex-Associate Director of Product Design at Tide Cleaners 37:22

2y ago37:22

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Ryan Tauss is the leading product design for Tide Cleaners. The past almost 4 years, along with a talented crew have greenfield an entire suite of applications that help run operations, customer service, and improve the guest experience making laundry as convenient as just using your thumb. Before that, he worked at America's largest church, Life.C…

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S5E4 How Google Designs for the Next Billion Users with Sumier Phalake 40:28

2y ago40:28

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Sumier Phalake is Head of Design, Next Billion Users at Google, which focuses on products that bring connectivity to users in emerging markets. He has over 15 years of experience across both consumer and enterprise products. Episode highlights: What is “Next Billion Users” (Google) and how it benefits people? Files by Google - file management that …

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S5E3 An Interview with Tessa Rodes, Senior Design Manager at IBM 38:11

2y ago38:11

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Tessa Rodes joined the very first cohort of IBM Design Bootcamp in 2013, and since then has seen the design organization and company grow and evolve into a truly design-led system. She has reviewed 100s of portfolio applications in the 8.5 years of IBM Design, and has strong opinions about both what makes a great portfolio and what NOT to bother wi…

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S5E2 An Interview with Ryan Hudson-Peralta, Staff Product Designer at RocketMortgage 35:37

2y ago35:37

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Ryan has spoken all over the world at schools, and organizations sharing his story and inspiring others to live their dreams. Ryan is a father, husband, mentor, motivational speaker, and designer. His current role, leading product design at Rocket Homes. He is an experienced User Interface Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the fina…

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S5E1 An Interview with Jared Spool 46:31

2y ago46:31

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Jared Spool is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in website and product usability, He is also the Maker of Awesomeness at @CenterCentre/@UIE. Helping designers everywhere help their organizations deliver well-designed products and services. In this episode, we talk…

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S4E10 An Interview with Michaela Mucha, Creative Advertising Manager at The Walt Disney Studios 40:41

2+ y ago40:41

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Michaela Mucha is an award-winning designer, art director, & matcha-drinker currently making fun things (virtually!) at The Walt Disney Studios. Michaela is a first generation Mexican–Filipina–American with over a decade of experience in graphic design. She is a design nerd at heart, and is currently at The Walt Disney Studios where she delivers be…

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S4E9 An Interview with John Yesko, Senior Director, Head of User Experience & Service Design At Walgreens 46:16

2+ y ago46:16

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John Yesko is a veteran experience design, creative, and digital business leader; now Head of User Experience and Service Design at Walgreens. Responsible for the digital experience on Walgreens websites, consumer mobile apps, and in-store retail interfaces - as well as team member-facing digital. He also leads the Omni-Channel Service Design pract…

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S3E8 An interview with Matthew Stephens, Cofounder of DeviantArt 29:31

2+ y ago29:31

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Matthew worked at the intersection of design and technology for over 22 years, most recently as VP of Design at The Zebra. He builds high-performing teams and designs award-winning products and brands. Beyond that, he also writes about ethics, accessibility, diversity, and education within design. At The Zebra, he scaled a Design Org from 3 to 22 i…

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S4E8 An Interview with Jesse Gaskin, HCD and Patient Experience Lead, Kaiser Permanente Northern California 43:46

2+ y ago43:46

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Jesse Gaskin serves as a Co-Program Director for the Design Leaders Council of The Conference Board. In addition to his work with The Conference Board, Jesse is a patient experience and human-centered design lead at Kaiser Permanente who specializes in using human-centered design to develop and launch new care experiences. His hybrid background in …

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S3E8 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast 52:57

2+ y ago52:57

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Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform. Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014. In this episode, we talked about: How …

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S4E7 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast 52:54

2+ y ago52:54

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Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform. Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014. In this episode, we talked about: How …

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S4E6 Interview with Ana Lara, Lead UX Designer at Cisco, Sr UX Manager at T-Mobile 41:22

2+ y ago41:22

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Ana Lara is an award-winning app product and strategic designer with more than ten years of experience. She has worked with different clients such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Hilton. She was one of the earliest UX team members at T-Mobile, where she led and transformed one of their most important apps into an award-winning mobile experience. Later…

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S4E5 Interview with Jesse Showalter, Full-Stack Designer and Content Creator 52:38

2+ y ago52:38

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Jesse Showalter is a Fullstack Designer, Mentor, & Content Creator on a mission to help every creative make an impact on the world. Jesse has a Youtube Channel with over 200k+ subscribers and counting! The channel shares Digital Design & Web Development videos each week focusing on tools, techniques, projects, and more to help creative people make …

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S4E4 Interview with Mike Heitzke, Lead Product Designer, CarMax Asurion on Management, Design Ops, Mental Health 53:08

2+ y ago53:08

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Mike Heitzke is a perpetual hobbyist. Competitive powerlifter, three-pedal car enthusiast, tinkerer and watch collector. He served within the logistics space at CarMax as a Lead Product Designer. In this episode, we talked about: MIke’s role at CarMax Design Operations and management Serving internal partners CarMax Experience in managing designers…

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S4E3 An Interview with Nico Li, Senior User Experience Design Lead, Innovation and Design at Zebra Technologies 52:34

2+ y ago52:34

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Nico Li is a UX / Product Designer who has been around for a while. Currently, he is residing with the Zebra Technologies Innovation and Design team and spending quite some time incubating new digital solutions. In this episode, we talked about: Nico Li’s role in Zebra Technologies What is Zebra Technologies and how it serves people Hardware and so…

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S4E2 An Interview with Morten Winther, Sr Staff UX Designer at Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center 43:09

2+ y ago43:09

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Morten Winther is a lead UX designer originally from Denmark but now in the Bay Area. He approaches design strategically and strives to ensure the future doesn't turn into a Sci-Fi dystopia. Morten's worked as a UX consultant and collaborated with organizations like Amazon, Absolut Vodka, and the Danish government, and he's currently shaping the fu…

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S3E7 From $10M Landscaping business to Uber of Landscaping app with CEO Bryan Clayton 46:01

2+ y ago46:01

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Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. o…

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S4E1 Interview with Jamie Dihiansan, Lead Designer at Basecamp 1:14:11

2+ y ago1:14:11

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Jamie Dihiansan is currently a Lead Designer at Basecamp primarily focused on the Android and iOS mobile apps for Basecamp (Project Management software) and HEY (Personal and Company Email service). He's been at Basecamp for over 13 years. He has 20+ years experience designing for the Web, including 7 years at Crate and Barrel building up their Int…

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S3E10 Interview with Caitlin Steele, Experience Design Manager at Trello Mobile, Atlassian, Design Manager at lululemon, Designer at MasterClass 50:20

2+ y ago50:20

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Caitlin Steele is a user-centered design and engineering expert focused on design operations. As a founding team member at MasterClass, she helped take the startup from an idea through Series C on the way to being a multi-billion-dollar company. Currently, she enables design and engineering teams to deliver exceptional native mobile experiences for…

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S3E6 An interview with Llama Life solopreneur Marie Ng 42:01

2+ y ago42:01

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Marie is the developer and designer of Llama Life, a tool that helps you work THROUGH to-do lists, not just make them. She's a 4th time founder (sold 2 companies) and previously designed an app that was featured by Apple and ranked in the Top 10 Productivity apps. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, but spent 12yrs living in London and New Yor…

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S3E9 An Interview with Design Strategist, Harsh Wardhan, D-Ford and Google 44:17

2+ y ago44:17

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Harsh Wardhan is a design thinking thought leader, who uses his human-centered design skills and his design strategy expertise to help companies build future strategies rooted in deep human insights that deliver business value. In his ten years of practice in the design industry, he has collaborated with organizations across different sectors like …

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S3E8 An Interview with Shay Howe, Senior Vice President of Platform Strategy, ActiveCampaign 43:37

2+ y ago43:37

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Shay Howe is the Vice President of Platform Strategy at ActiveCampaign, where he leads platform experience and ecosystem, strategic partnerships, and product, front-end, and communication design. He works to make the customer a hero, helping them create ideal customer experiences through intuitive products, marketing, and integrations. Prior to Act…

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S3E7 An Interview with Kevin Hsieh on automotive UI/UX at Tesla, Lucid Motors, and Faraday Future 41:03

2+ y ago41:03

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Kevin Hsieh is a product design leader with 15+ years of experience under my belt. I have shipped countless products at companies both large and small. He has 5 patents and enjoys complex problem solving, collaboration, and creative thinking to take projects from concept to completion. Creating stunning and innovative designs, that are user-centric…

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S3E6 Designing for Health-tech, an interview with Director of Product Design at Teladoc, Jen Byyny 36:04

2+ y ago36:04

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Jen Byyny is a leader in tech/product design with over 17 years of experience. She has over 7 years of design leadership experience and 10+ years of hands-on professional design experience focused on software/Saas, analytics and media experiences for business and consumer audiences with strong management experience, design-thinking methodologies, d…

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S3E5 An interview with CEO of Wonderschool, Chris Bennet 27:29

2+ y ago27:29

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Wonderschool CEO and co-founder Chris Bennett saw too many parents who were anxious and scared about finding child care, as well as educators who couldn’t afford care for their own children while they were at work. He knew that there had to be a better way to address this issue for families and teachers alike. ‍ Chris’s appreciation for education g…

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S3E4 Founding Gigster and Made Renovation, an Interview with Roger Dickey 36:57

2+ y ago36:57

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Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder of MADE. Roger is a serial entrepreneur & active angel investor based in San Francisco. Roger's first company was an AirBnB for tutoring started in Austin in 2006.He entered the games industry in 2007 with a Facebook app startup, launching 19 apps with the largest generating 300M+ page views per month. After an acquis…

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S3E3 A look inside a P/E firm, an interview with Akeel Jabber, Investment Director at Horizen Capital 36:26

2+ y ago36:26

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Akeel Jabber is the Investment Director and GP of Horizen Capital, an Engineer who was previously a partner and operations director at Wired investors, a micro private equity firm focused on digital asset acquisitions and has been involved in over 15 company acquisitions. Expert in growth marketing strategy and business operations.…

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S3E5 Designing for Financial Services and the Aerospace Industry. An Interview with Brittany Schlenk 45:32

2+ y ago45:32

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Brittany Schlenk is currently the Assistant Director of Design & UX at The Hartford. In her current role, she helps oversee and manage the Middle & Large Commercial portfolio. She works heavily in the business-to-business space and focuses primarily on underwriters, agents, and account managers as her main users. Prior to joining The Hartford, she …

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S3E1 Bootstrapping Microacquire to $600K ARR as a solo founder with Andrew Gazdecki 40:57

2+ y ago40:57

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Andrew Gazdecki is the Founder of MicroAcquire. Former CEO & Founder of Bizness Apps and Altcoin (both acquired). He likes to build stuff, mostly companies, and in this episode, he tries to tell a story that goes beyond what the company does to how it’s changing markets. Andrew has been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc.com, and Entrepreneur Magazi…

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S3E4 Teaching over 200,000 UX Students. An interview with UX consultant and coach Joe Natoli 43:37

2+ y ago43:37

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Joe Natoli is a UX consultant, author and speaker. Everything he does is born from three decades of consulting with and training the product development teams of some of the world’s largest organizations. He has taught over 200,000 students through his online courses and is a regular keynote speaker and lecturer at events across the globe. He recen…

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S2E10 Interview with Capri Wheaton, Cofounder of Thryft, a YC Company 23:20

2+ y ago23:20

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Capri Wheaton is an avid thrifter and fashion fanatic, she is currently the CEO and Co-Founder at Thryft. She briefly studied political science and philosophy as a Freshman at UC Berkeley before dropping out to co-found Thryft with Sam Yang. Thryft is Shopify for Instagram sellers, they turn Instagram feed into a website in 1 click. It helps Instag…

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S3E3 From Redbox, to SteelSeries, Weta, to starting her own company, an interview with Reina O'Meara 40:44

2+ y ago40:44

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Reina O’Meara is an award-winning UX/Graphic Designer who has helped define brands for both Fortune 500 companies and small startups. She has worked for companies such as Weta Workshop, Redbox, and Steelseries. She is currently the Brand Director of Comfort Eats. In this episode, we talked about: Reina’s role in Comfort Eats Her accomplishments in …

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S2E9 An interview w/ GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures, seed-stage fintech fund, Sheel Mohnot 34:21

2+ y ago34:21

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Sheel Mohnot is a Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures - a $75 million seed-stage five-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative FinTech companies globally. He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology and disrupt financial institutions to enable them to act more efficiently.…

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S3E2 An interview with Felix Lee, Co-founder of ADPList, a global design mentorship platform 36:22

3y ago36:22

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Felix Lee is a designer and tech entrepreneur based in Singapore. He is the Co-Founder of ADPList, one of the world’s largest mentoring platforms for designers. He had previously founded Packdat, which was acquired in 2018; led design at Gotrade (YC S19) and was the Head of Product & Design at Passpod Indonesia ($YELO). Felix previously notably con…

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