Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
499 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsA podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot's Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
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444: Paddle with Daniëlle Keeven
October 13, 2022 04:15 - 28 minutes - 30.7 MBHello UK Giant Robots listeners! Our next event allows you to hear from and connect with both Founders and Investors on all things Fundraising. The event will be 1 part panel discussion and 1 part breakout sessions. We hope you can make it! Register today at: tbot.io/fundraising-uk (https://thoughtbot.com/events/fundraising-uk-event?utm_source=socials&utm_medium=socials&utm_campaign=UK%20fundraising%20event) Daniëlle Keeven is VP of Finance at Paddle, the only complete payments infrastructure...
443: Airbrake with Göran Sandahl
October 06, 2022 04:15 - 22 minutes - 23.3 MBHello UK Giant Robots listeners! Our next event allows you to hear from and connect with both Founders and Investors on all things Fundraising. The event will be 1 part panel discussion and 1 part breakout sessions. We hope you can make it! Register today at: tbot.io/fundraising-uk (https://thoughtbot.com/events/fundraising-uk-event?utm_source=socials&utm_medium=socials&utm_campaign=UK%20fundraising%20event) Göran Sandahl is Director of Growth at Airbrake LogicMonitor, frictionless error moni...
442: Zedosh & The Attention Exchange with Guillaume Kendall
September 29, 2022 04:15 - 36 minutes - 42.4 MBGuillaume Kendall is the Founder of Zedosh and Attention Exchange, which is working to build a safe place for advertisers, publishers, and consumers to all benefit from fair access to human attention. Chad talks with Guillaume about open banking, changing up who the beneficiaries of consumer attention and data are, and giving companies opportunities to advertise without interrupting consumers with ads. Zedosh (https://zedosh.com/) The Attention Exchange (https://attentionexchange.co.uk/) Fol...
441: Creative Startups with Alice Loy
September 22, 2022 04:15 - 40 minutes - 32.7 MBAlice Loy is a Founding Partner at DaVinci Ventures and the Co-Founder and CEO of Creative Startups, the leading global startup accelerator and company builder for design, food, immersive, and creative companies. Victoria and Chad talk with Alice about what she means by creative companies, how much judgment she must pass as an investor with a love for the "weird and wonderful," and some of the challenges faced in bringing diversity to the rest of the accelerator world. DaVinci Ventures (https...
440: The LGBTQ+ Family Connections Center with Joe Barb
September 15, 2022 04:15 - 20 minutes - 24.1 MBJoe Barb is Executive Director and Founder of LGBTQ+ Family Connections Center. They have a mission to strengthen and empower all youth, however they identify, to overcome obstacles by providing housing, supportive counseling, community education, and advocacy. Victoria and Chad talk with Joe about identifying needs for the center, his own lived experience and connection to the LGBTQ+ community, and deciding what services to provide and evaluating which are most impactful. LGBTQ+ Family Conne...
439: LOANHOOD with Lucy Hall
September 08, 2022 04:15 - 31 minutes - 35.5 MBLucy Hall is the Co-Founder of LOANHOOD, an online fashion rental platform and community that allows users to loan inclusive, diverse, and creative styles for an affordable price. Chad talks with Lucy about being a peer-to-peer fashion rental app, building a community, and reducing the impacts of the fashion industry on the planet and people by helping to create a sustainable future. LOANHOOD (https://www.loanhood.com/) Follow LOANHOOD on Twitter (https://twitter.com/loanhoodlondon), Instagra...
438: Bright Ventures with Lenore Champagne Beirne
September 01, 2022 04:15 - 24 minutes - 28.7 MBLenore Champagne Beirne is Founder and Managing Partner at Bright Ventures, a groundbreaking space for transformation in people, companies, and industries with coaching, capital, and community. Chad talks with Lenore about being at the intersection of all three of those services, providing support for diverse entrepreneurs, and staying intentional about the kind of company and culture they're creating. Bright Ventures (https://www.brightventures.io/) Follow Bright Ventures on Twitter (https:/...
437: Hello Prenup with Sarabeth Jaffe
August 25, 2022 04:15 - 30 minutes - 33.2 MBSarabeth Jaffe is CTO and Co-Founder at HelloPrenup, the digital prenup platform designed to get couples on the same page. Chad talks with Sarabeth about dogfooding her own product, completely starting over from a technical perspective using Bubble, a low-code/no-code platform, and appearing on the ABC hit series Shark Tank. Hello Prenup (https://helloprenup.com/) Follow Hello Prenup on Twitter (https://twitter.com/HelloPrenup), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/helloprenup/), YouTube (htt...
436: Welcoming our new co-host Victoria Guido
August 18, 2022 04:15 - 24 minutes - 28 MBVictoria Guido is the new Associate Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy at thoughtbot, and is joining Chad as co-host of the show! Chad talks with Victoria about getting involved in DevOps work, transitioning to agile, moving away from her old community which was based on geography, and tips for people onboarding into a new role. Follow Victoria on Twitter (https://twitter.com/victori_ousg) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorialguido/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitt...
435: Numerated with Adam Kenney
August 11, 2022 04:15 - 34 minutes - 39.1 MBAdam Kenney is Chief Product Officer at Numerated, which helps banks and credit unions transform how they lend to businesses. Chad talks with Adam about what institutional banks and credit unions are like as a market and customers and what sales cycles look like, going from 17 to more than 130 customers quickly, and the scaling challenges they faced, and how the pandemic affected them as a company. Numerated (https://www.numerated.com/) Follow Numerated on Twitter (https://twitter.com/numerat...
434: SOS with Susanna Twarog
August 04, 2022 04:15 - 29 minutes - 30.1 MBSusanna Twarog is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SOS, which is transforming wellness on the go through a network of smart vending machines that deliver just-in-time necessities where and when you need the most. Chad talks with Susanna about wellness on the go, the unique business that they're building and what SOS can offer brands, and the biggest hurdles to overcome to get 10,000 machines up and running. SOS (https://www.worldofsos.com/) Follow SOS on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@world_of_sos),...
433: Techie Staffing with Anna Spearman
July 28, 2022 04:15 - 50 minutes - 50.4 MBAnna Spearman is the Founder of Techie Staffing, which connects high-quality technology talent with high-caliber clients. Chad talks with Anna about founding and growing the company, immediately after graduating college, during a pandemic, reputation building, and facing skepticism around her lack of track record in recruiting, and finding and providing talent for clients as a white-glove service. Techie Staffing (https://techiestaffing.com/) Follow Techie Staffing on Twitter (https://twitter...
432: MustWatch with Chelinde Edouard
July 21, 2022 04:15 - 28 minutes - 35.6 MBChelinde Edouard is Co-Founder and CEO of MustWatch, which connects people through television. Chad talks with Che about creating a social and user engagement platform that allows people to come back and constantly use an app without interrupting TV-watching experiences, how they use data to improve user experience, and fundraising and giving investors opportunities to help build out the app, increase marketing, and potentially build an Android version. MustWatch (https://mustwatch.com/) Foll...
431: DEI at thoughtbot with Geronda Wollack-Spiller
July 14, 2022 04:15 - 37 minutes - 35.4 MBGeronda Wollack-Spiller is the DEI Program Manager at thoughtbot. Chad talks with Geronda about implementing a successful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program at the company by providing a culture of belonging, the challenges, in particular, the tech industry faces, and acknowledging that many of us work in spaces where when we're bringing someone onto a team who has underrepresented identities, they might be the only one. How do we create a space that's as inclusive as possible? Diversit...
430: LearnWorlds with Panos Siozos
July 07, 2022 04:15 - 37 minutes - 40.3 MBPanos Siozos is Co-Founder and CEO of LearnWorlds, an online course platform for creating, selling, and promoting online courses. Chad talks with Panos about building e-learning platforms dating back to 1999, providing rich feature sets and catering to customers located in lots of different places, and deciding to stop bootstrapping and take investor money. LearnWorlds (https://www.learnworlds.com/) Follow LearnWorlds on Twitter (https://twitter.com/learnworlds), Facebook (https://www.faceboo...
429: 5x with Tarush Aggarwal
June 30, 2022 04:15 - 31 minutes - 31.1 MBTarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5X, the modern data stack as a managed service that enables companies to answer business questions without having to worry about building data infrastructure or bringing in the right data engineering team. Chad talks with Tarush about the modern data stack movement, choosing things that make sense on behalf of their customers, and building a team culture at a company with a fairly large time zone distribution. 5x (https://5x.co/) Follow 5x on Twitter...
428: LGBT YouthLink of CenterLink with Deborah Levine
June 23, 2022 04:15 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBDeborah Levine is the Director of LGBT YouthLink at CenterLink, which supports, strengthens, and connects LGBT centers. Chad talks with Deborah about working on something new called imi: a free digital research-backed mental health tool intended to support and help LGBTQ+ teens explore and affirm their identity and learn practical ways to cope with their sexual and gender minority stress, founding Q Chat Space, a digital LGBTQ+ center where teens join live-chat, professionally facilitated, on...
427: BrainStation with Johanna Mikkola
June 16, 2022 04:15 - 41 minutes - 48.2 MBJohanna Mikkola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wyncode Academy, recently acquired by BrainStation, whose project-based programs have helped over 100,000 professionals launch new careers in the tech industry. Chad talks with Johanna about creating a digital skills training bootcamp, the hiring and training market and challenges, and prioritizing inclusion and diversity in the student population. BrainStation (https://brainstation.io/) Follow BrainStation on Twitter (https://twitter.com/brainstat...
426: Marvelous with Jeni Barcelos
June 09, 2022 04:15 - 40 minutes - 45.8 MBJeni Barcelos is the Co-Founder and CEO of Marvelous, the world's most beautiful all-in-one teaching platform. Chad talks with Jeni about what makes Marvelous different from other teaching platforms out there, the importance of elevating women to leadership positions, and why applying for and getting accepted into an accelerator program was the right path for the company. Marvelous (https://www.heymarvelous.com/) Follow Marvelous on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZ_kWoBcXJuSKP1io...
425: SweetProcess with Owen McGab Enaohwo
June 02, 2022 04:15 - 32 minutes - 39.7 MBOwen McGab Enaohwo is the CEO and Co-Founder of SweetProcess, a business process management software that helps management teams and employees easily document procedures, implement processes, and manage tasks. Chad talks with Owen about taking specific root issues and building software around them, overcoming resistance to the core idea of documenting processes, and the importance of having the freedom and ability to be empowered to make changes to organizational documents that outline how yo...
424: Boulevard with Matt Danna
May 26, 2022 04:15 - 34 minutes - 45.6 MBMatt Danna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Boulevard, which powers next-gen salons and spas. Its mission is to modernize the technology while improving the daily lives of professionals and the clients they serve. Chad talks with Matt about discovering a problem and then making the jump to working on it, overcoming hurdles in terms of continued growth, and deciding to invest in building their own hardware by creating Boulevard Duo: a point of sale credit card reader. Boulevard (https://www.joinbl...
423: Reign Ventures with Monique Idlett
May 19, 2022 04:15 - 41 minutes - 50.6 MBMonique Idlett is the Founder of Reign Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm, and previously the Co-Founder and CEO of Mosley Brands and Mosley Music Group, home to a multiplatinum roster of artists. Chad talks with Monique about how the music industry is like the startup venture capital industry, understanding that representation matters, having a data-forward approach, and appearing on the TV show Undercover Billionaire, where entrepreneurs are given 90-days and nothing but 100 dollars to...
422: Verge HealthTech Fund with Joseph Mocanu
May 12, 2022 04:15 - 36 minutes - 45.9 MBJoseph Mocanu is Co-founder and Managing Director of Verge HealthTech Fund, which invests globally in seed-stage healthcare technology startups relevant to emerging Asia that focus on disease prevention and management, digital therapies, and health system efficiency. Chad talks with Joseph about the healthcare landscape in different places of the world, funding criteria for companies, and how the pandemic has changed prospects for the fund and the market in general. Verge HealthTech Fund (htt...
421: Benchmark Labs with Carlos F. Gaitan Ospina
May 05, 2022 04:15 - 34 minutes - 40.3 MBCarlos F. Gaitan Ospina is the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Labs, which provides IoT-based weather forecasting solutions for the agriculture, energy, and insurance sectors worldwide using proprietary machine-learning software. Chad talks with Carlos about creating the company, the hardware they're producing and what it is doing, and where the machine learning comes into play. Benchmark Labs (https://www.benchmarklabs.com/) Follow Benchmark Labs on Twitter (https://twitter.com/labsbenchmark), ...
420: mRelief with Dize Hacioglu
April 28, 2022 04:15 - 44 minutes - 53.4 MBDize Hacioglu is the CTO of Chicago’s mRelief, which offers an easy-to-use platform that helps families connect to SNAP food benefits. Since it was founded in 2014, the non-profit mRelief has helped 2.8 million Americans unlock $1 billion in food stamp benefits. Chad talks with Dize about how the platform helps people navigate the often complicated food stamp benefits system, what her role as CTO looks like as a CTO who codes, and how she hopes to help facilitate the growth of the mRelief pro...
419: The GK Fund with Michael Benezra
April 21, 2022 04:15 - 26 minutes - 31.4 MBMichael Benezra is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the GK Fund: a nonprofit social impact fund to support BIPOC-owned companies in Greater Boston. Michael also serves as the COO of Colette Phillips Communications, helping to lead the All Inclusive Boston (https://www.bostonusa.com/allinclusivebos/) tourism campaign, among other projects. Chad talks with Michael about being a BIPOC ally, disparities amongst the VC world, and how the GK Fund looks for the same things in BIPOC-owned com...
418: Aitomatic with Christopher Nguyen
April 14, 2022 04:15 - 39 minutes - 40.1 MBChristopher Nguyen is the CEO of Aitomatic, which provides knowledge-first AI for industrial automation. Chad talks with Christopher about why having a physical sciences background matters for this work, if we have artificial intelligence, why we still need people, and working in knowledge-first AI instead of knowledge-second, knowledge-third, or no knowledge at all. Data reflects the world. Aitomatic (https://www.aitomatic.com/) Follow Aitomatic on Twitter (https://twitter.com/aitomatic) or ...
417: Hume AI with Alan Cowen
April 07, 2022 04:15 - 40 minutes - 49.1 MBDr. Alan Cowen is the Executive Director of The Hume Initiative (https://thehumeinitiative.org/), a non-profit dedicated to the responsible advancement of AI with empathy, and CEO of Hume AI (https://hume.ai/), an AI research lab and empathetic AI company that is hoping to pave the way for AI that improves our emotional well-being. Chad talks with Alan about forming clear ethical guidelines around how this technology should be used because there is a problem in that the public is skeptical a...
416: The ParentPreneur Foundation with James Oliver Jr.
March 31, 2022 04:15 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBJames Oliver Jr. is the Founder and CEO of The ParentPreneur Foundation, which empowers Black ParentPreneurs so they can leave a legacy for their beautiful Black children. Chad talks with James about inspiring, encouraging, and supporting ParentPreneurs to lobby to try to close wealth inequality gaps, shoot their shot and send cold emails, and engage in a community that supports one another. Parents Making Profits (https://www.parentsmakingprofits.com/) The ParentPreneur Foundation (https://w...
415: Promenade with JT Liddell
March 24, 2022 04:15 - 38 minutes - 42.4 MBJT Lidell is the Founder of Promenade, which seamlessly matches and connects military veterans to the resources, people, and organizations that matter to them. Chad talks with JT about being a mission-driven, bootstrapped organization, the problems that he's encountered and hopes that Promenade solves, and aggregating people, tools, resources, and funding to make it happen. Promenade (https://www.promenade.ai/) Follow JT on Twitter (https://twitter.com/promenadeactual) or LinkedIn (https://ww...
414: Sagewell Financial with Sam Zimmerman
March 10, 2022 05:15 - 39 minutes - 40.2 MBSam Zimmerman is CEO and Co-founder of Sagewell Financial. Sagewell is building a banking platform for the needs of folks who are trying to retire and live off their savings and income as intelligently and as well as possible. Chad talks with Sam about deciding what their first product should be and what they would be bringing to market, finding the right partners, and minimizing risk to make a business and a product that works. Sagewell Financial (https://www.sagewellfinancial.com/) Follow S...
413: The Takeoff Institute with Brian Hollins
March 03, 2022 05:15 - 38 minutes - 50.3 MBBrian Hollins is the Founder of the Takeoff Institute and Founding Managing Partner of Collide Capital. The Takeoff Institute is focused on equipping Black undergrads with the resources and mentorship they need to build a young professional career. Chad talks with Brian about providing students with necessary skills like etiquette and polish to break into Tesla and McKinsey-level companies and facilitating facetime, communication, and mentorship with other Black people within those companies ...
412: Diversity-X with Kevin Withane
February 24, 2022 05:15 - 32 minutes - 38.7 MBKevin Withane is the founder of Diversity-X: a community to help underrepresented founders who are trying to make a positive impact in the world thrive, scale, and grow. Chad talks with Kevin about giving underestimated founders connections and access, creating a venture fund, and creating a platform via DiversityX. Follow City DiversityX on Twitter (https://twitter.com/diversityx_vc). Follow Kevin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/KevinWithane) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwi...
411: Civic Innovation with Jay Nath
February 17, 2022 05:15 - 34 minutes - 37.3 MBJay Nath is the Co-CEO of City Innovate, a govtech company streamlining procurement through enterprise software and innovative frameworks. He talks with Chad about how he focuses on helping governments be more effective, responsive, and zeroed in on helping their constituents whether on a small city or a big state scale. City Innovate (https://www.cityinnovate.com/) Follow City Innovate on Twitter (https://twitter.com/CityInnovate) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-innovate...
410: Ada Developers Academy with Alexandra Holien
February 10, 2022 05:15 - 34 minutes - 38.8 MBAlexandra Holien is the Vice President of Revenue and Strategy and Deputy Director of Ada Developers Academy. She talks with Chad about working for a nonprofit that prioritizes teaching Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and low-income folks software development for free. Ada Developers Academy (https://adadevelopersacademy.org/) Follow Alexandra on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AlexandraHolien) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandraholien/). Follow thou...
409: Career Growth and Being a Mindful Dev with Dagna Bieda
February 03, 2022 05:15 - 34 minutes - 37.7 MBDagna Bieda is an engineer, career coach, and founder of theMindfulDev.com. She talks with Chad about being a software engineer first and then becoming a career coach who has helped a big range of clients with communication and marketing themselves successfully. theMindfulDev (https://www.themindfuldev.com/) Follow Dagna on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dagnabieda) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagnabieda/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn ...
408: Shipyard with Benjie De Groot
January 27, 2022 05:15 - 38 minutes - 41.1 MBChad talks to Benjie De Groot, co-founder, and CEO of Shipyard. Shipyard manages, creates, builds, and deploys ephemeral environments. Benjie talks about how Shipyard became a funded company, discovering who their ideal customers are, and building out the core team so Shipyard can accelerate and figure out their next steps in how to bring it to the masses. Ephemeral Environments (https://ephemeralenvironments.io/) Shipyard (https://shipyard.build/) Follow Benjie on LinkedIn (https://www.link...
Assessment and Performance Metrics with Tiffany Shubert of Relias Healthcare
January 20, 2022 05:15 - 43 minutes - 51.9 MBChad talks to Tiffany Shubert, Senior Product Manager at Relias Healthcare. Relias is an online healthcare education company. They develop and create education and clinical content for anything from physicians to nurses, physical therapists, to in-home care aides in multiple healthcare settings. They span the entire range from acute care hospital settings to in-home care to hospice. Tiffany talks about how her clinical skills apply really well to product management, defining who you're solvi...
406: thoughtbot 2021 Year-in-Review with CEO Diana Bald
January 13, 2022 05:15 - 48 minutes - 58.3 MBChad talks to the CEO of thoughtbot, Diana Bald, about 2021 in retrospect. thoughtbot, as a company, has settled into a new structure that contains different teams and committed to becoming a fully remote organization. Last year, Diana successfully transitioned into taking over the company's CEO role. She and Chad talk about the improvements the company made in 2021, including DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) efforts and training sessions, and look ahead to some improvements coming in 2022...
405: RackN Digital Rebar with Rob Hirschfeld
December 23, 2021 05:15 - 47 minutes - 52.9 MBChad talks to Rob Hirschfeld, the Founder and CEO of RackN, which develops software to help automate data centers, which they call Digital Rebar. RackN is focused on helping customers automate infrastructure. They focus on customer autonomy and self-management, and that's why they're a software company, not a services or as-a-service platform company. Digital Rebar is a platform that helps connect all of the different pieces and tools that people use to manage infrastructure into infrastruct...
404: My Goat with Neil Amrhein and Matt Erickson
December 16, 2021 05:15 - 42 minutes - 52.7 MBNeal Amrhein is the founder and CEO and Matt Erickson is the CTO of My Goat. My Goat is a subscription mowing service for commercial properties. They use robotic mowers and elegant software tools to make turf care easy, convenient, and affordable. Follow Neal on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-amrhein-9398969/). Follow Erik on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-erickson-153fish/). My Goat (https://mygoat.co/) Follow MyGoat on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MyGoatCo), Facebook...
403: Mission Control with Joe Ferris
December 09, 2021 05:15 - 34 minutes - 41.3 MBJoe Ferris is thoughtbot's CTO and Managing Director of the thoughtbot DevOps and maintenance team known as Mission Control. Mission Control is our newest team doing DevOps Support, Maintenance, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). The goal of Mission Control, rather than building products or pairing with team members to improve their team like the rest of thoughtbot, is to support those teams and support other client teams in deploying and scaling applications. They have an on-call team a...
402: Lift Off with Emily Bahna
December 02, 2021 05:15 - 29 minutes - 23.1 MBEmily Bahna a Managing Director at thoughtbot who leads the Lift Off team, where they focus on really leaning into the core of the company. The team works with new founders to launch new products or they work with existing companies that want to build out a new service or open up a new area to generate revenue for their business. But, the thing that ties Lift Off together, is that they start at ground zero to build upon an idea and actually build the first version product to get it out live i...
401: thoughtbot Ignite with Dawn Delatte
November 18, 2021 05:15 - 35 minutes - 41.3 MBDawn Delatte a Designer and Managing Director at thoughtbot who leads the Ignite team, where they focus primarily on validating and launching early-stage products through design-thinking, business and product strategy, and iterative design and development. Dawn works collaboratively with designers and developers to ensure they add value to the people and products thoughtbot works with every day. Follow Dawn on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dawndig) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn...
400: Launchpad II with Kirsten Hurley
November 04, 2021 04:15 - 35 minutes - 31.6 MBChad interviews Kirsten Hurley, Managing Director of thoughtbot's Launchpad II team. The Launchpad II team covers the EMEA area: that's Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She talks about working remotely for almost the entire time she's worked with the company, her approach to talking with potential customers when she knows she's never going to meet them in person, and what she sees happening to the different geographies that thoughtbot is selling and expanding into. Follow thoughtbot on Tw...
399: thoughtbot Boost with Joshua Clayton
October 28, 2021 04:15 - 39 minutes - 48.3 MBChad interviews Managing Director at thoughtbot, Joshua Clayton, about what a Managing Director at thoughtbot does, what makes Boost at thoughtbot different than other teams, and the belief in integrated teams of designers and developers company-wide. Empathize with Your Customer by Josh Clayton (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/empathize-with-your-customer) thoughtbot Boost (https://thoughtbot.com/boost) Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linked...
398: Education 2.0 with Victoria Ransom of Prisma
October 21, 2021 04:15 - 41 minutes - 48.7 MBChad interviews Co-Founder and CEO, Victoria Ranson of Prisma. Prisma is a stealth-mode education startup on a mission to reimagine the way children are educated. Their mission is to create a generation capable of solving the world's biggest problems by creating and running a comprehensive virtual learning program for kids in grades 4-8 that is very unlike any other traditional homeschooling program you've ever heard of. Prisma's Website (https://joinprisma.com) Follow Prisma on Twitter (http...
397: Driven By Fulfillment with Natalie Nzeyimana of Harbour
October 14, 2021 04:15 - 39 minutes - 44.6 MBAt harbour.today, Natalie Nzeyimana and her team are helping people build holistic resilience. On this episode, she and Chad talk about building the app at the beginning of the pandemic when she witnessed herself and others feeling like they were close to drowning and feeling really unmoored. Harbour is a space for people to anchor themselves, find clarity, and set sail. The community offers one-to-one coaching, workshops, a course, and a daily check-in tool. harbour.today (https://www.harbou...
396: Product Roadmaps Aren’t Dead; They Smell
October 07, 2021 04:15 - 45 minutes - 57.3 MBLindsey and Chad talk about product roadmaps. Are they dead? Lindsey and Chad think they just smell. We also say an emotional goodbye to Lindsey as she moves on to new adventures. We miss you! Buffer Transparent Product Roadmap (https://trello.com/b/PDIV7XW3/buffer-transparent-product-roadmap) Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: LINDSEY: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast where we explore the design, development, a...
395: Energy, Perspective, Priorities, and Intention with Jen Dary of Plucky
September 30, 2021 04:15 - 48 minutes - 57.1 MBChad talks to Leadership Coach and Founder of Plucky, Jen Dary, about working with individuals and companies to create healthy dynamics at work. In fact, Plucky just released a new product that aids in doing just that! Manager Weeklies are notebooks designed to help leaders intentionally set up their weeks and track progress. It includes tips and tricks, including useful 1:1 tools. Each notebook is designed to last one quarter. Follow Jen Dary on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jenniferdary) or ...