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7- Steve Vassallo @Foundation Capital: Empathy is killing your product
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English - April 03, 2018 09:00 - 48 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDesign Arts Business Careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Steve Vassallo is a general partner at Foundation Capital (VC firm that invested in Pocket, Netflix, Uber etc.). Prior to that, he worked as a lead designer at IDEO where he worked on a famous Cisco's 7900 series VoIP phone. He recently published a book "The Way to Design", which helps designers become entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs adopt best design practices. You can read the book for free online.
In the episode we talked about:
why will the 21st century be the decade of design, why empathy has become a buzzword and what empathy really is, common struggles of designers who want to become entrepreneurs.