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Rocketship.FM brings you the latest and most important stories shaping the world of technology. From groundbreaking innovations to high-stakes corporate battles, we break down the news that matters—giving you the insights you need to stay informed in an ever-evolving tech landscape. Whether it's AI, big tech power plays, or the future of digital policy, we make sense of the headlines so you don’t have to.Rocketship.fm, produced in partnership with Evergreen Podcasts, has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Inc, Entrepreneur, and many more business publications as a top business podcast year after year.
Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman: The AI Rivalry Shaping the Future
Elon Musk and Sam Altman—once allies in the quest for AI advancement—are now at the center of one of the biggest tech rivalries of our time. From co-founding OpenAI together in 2015 to Musk’s eventual departure and criticism of OpenAI’s shift toward a for-profit model, the tension between these two Silicon Valley titans has only escalated. In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we explore the origins of their partnership, the philosophical divide that drove them apart, and the latest in their ongoing
AI’s Sputnik Moment? How DeepSeek is Shaking Up the AI Race
January 25, 2025, may go down as a pivotal moment in the AI race. Chinese AI company DeepSeek launched its latest model—one that rivals OpenAI and Anthropic but at a fraction of the cost. Investors panicked, Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in value overnight, and industry leaders like Marc Andreessen called it "AI’s Sputnik moment." But is it really? In this episode, we explore DeepSeek’s rise, its impact on the AI landscape, and whether the U.S. is truly at risk of falling behind in the AI arms
OpenAI’s 2025 Roadmap: Smarter AI, Agents, and… Humanoid Robots?
OpenAI is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence yet again. In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we break down what Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil revealed about OpenAI’s roadmap for 2025 and beyond—including the latest AI model, O1, which is already outperforming previous versions in coding, math, and reasoning. But that’s just the beginning. We also explore OpenAI’s move into AI-powered agents designed to streamline everyday tasks, and the company’s rumored return to humanoid robotic
Project Stargate: The $500 Billion AI Bet Today's Tech Titans are Taking
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive into one of the boldest AI initiatives ever announced: Project Stargate. Backed by tech giants like OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX, this $500 billion venture is set to transform AI infrastructure in the United States. With President Trump championing the project from day one of his presidency, it’s being framed as a move to secure America’s leadership in artificial intelligence. But the stakes are massive—so is the controversy.While figures like Larry
TikTok’s Tipping Point: The Ban, the Backlash, and the Battle Ahead
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito dives into the story that’s shaking up the tech world: the TikTok ban in the United States. With a new year, a new administration, and growing geopolitical tensions, TikTok finds itself at the center of a national security debate. From bipartisan concerns over data privacy and Chinese ownership to the Supreme Court’s decisive ruling and President Trump’s potential role in TikTok’s future, this story has it all—politics, culture, and the fate of
Meta’s Bold Move: The End of Content Moderation as We Know It
Meta is making waves in 2025 with a decision that’s turning heads across the tech world. Mark Zuckerberg announced the end of traditional content moderation at Meta, replacing fact-checkers with a Community Notes-style system where users take the reins. Borrowing a page from Elon Musk’s playbook at X, this shift puts the responsibility for identifying misinformation squarely on Meta’s users. But is this a step toward democratizing the internet or a dangerous move away from accountability?In this
Delight: Building Emotional Connections in Products with Nesrine Changuel
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito sits down with Nesrine Changuel, a seasoned product manager with an impressive track record at Spotify, Skype, and Google, to explore the transformative power of emotional connection in product design. Nesrine’s upcoming book, Delight, introduces the concept of the Delight Grid framework—a practical tool to help product teams prioritize features that not only solve problems but also resonate deeply with users. Through her research and real-worl
2025 Tech Predictions: AI, Jobs, and the Future of Social Media
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we look ahead to the pivotal trends set to shape the tech world in 2025. From the continued evolution of AI in redefining how we interact with the web to a predicted rebound in tech jobs, we explore what these changes mean for product managers, technologists, and businesses alike. With social media consolidating around a few dominant platforms and the growing push for child safety in AI chatbots, this year promises both innovation and challenges that will redefi
Defining Moments: The Top Stories In Tech That Defined 2024
From groundbreaking innovations to industry-shaking controversies, 2024 was a year that kept us on our toes in tech. In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we uncover six defining stories that shaped the landscape for product managers, tech leaders, and innovators alike. Whether you're leading a product team or simply keeping an eye on the ever-changing world of technology, these stories will give you the context you need to stay ahead.Join us as we explore how these pivotal moments unfolded and thei
From Individual Contributor to Manager: Mastering the Leap with Spotify's Melika Hope
In this episode, Melika Hope, Director of Product at Spotify, shares her candid journey of navigating this leap and provides actionable insights for aspiring leaders. Drawing from her 15+ years of experience, managing teams across continents, Melika introduces her "4 Ds" framework: Decide, Declare, Demonstrate, and Deliver, to help you become one of the exceptional few who excel in people management.Whether you're contemplating your first leadership role or looking to refine your management styl
Foundations of Product Management: Navigating the Early Challenges
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we flip the script as Mike Belsito, Co-Founder of Product Collective, takes the guest seat to share his journey from entrepreneur to product leader. Interviewed by his longtime co-host Michael Sacca, Mike dives into the foundational skills every product manager needs, the importance of customer empathy, and how evolving tools like AI are reshaping the role. He also reflects on his early uncertainties and how building community and continuous learning helped him
Impact-First Product Teams: Aligning Goals with Business Success
What does it mean to lead with impact in a world of uncertainty, ambiguity, and endless best practices? In this compelling episode of Rocketship.FM, we explore how product teams can directly tie their work to measurable business success, ensuring alignment with company goals while resisting the low-impact work that often derails progress.Drawing from the soon-to-be-released book Impact First Product Teams, our guest shares actionable insights on setting meaningful team goals, keeping impact at t
Mastering the Product Sales Pitch with April Dunford: A Primer for Product People
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, world-renowned positioning and marketing expert April Dunford joins us to share her insights on crafting sales pitches that close deals and win markets. Drawing from her book Sales Pitch, April dives into the art of creating a compelling narrative that helps your customers confidently choose your product over competitors—and the dreaded "do nothing." In this recording of her keynote talk from INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in 2023, April breaks down her proven
Mastering SaaS Pricing: A deep dive with Bill Wilson of Pace Pricing
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we tackle one of the most critical and overlooked elements of the product marketing mix: pricing. Joining us is Bill Wilson, Founder and CEO of Pace Pricing, a SaaS pricing expert with a background as a founder and product leader. Bill shares insights into how pricing has evolved, the common pitfalls companies face, and why leveraging data is key to getting it right.We also explore the psychological effects of pricing on buyers, the challenges of pricing AI prod
Mastering Product Operations with Jenny Wanger: From Strategy to Best Practices
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive into the world of Product Operations with Jenny Wanger, an expert in product ops coaching for product leaders. Together, we unpack the foundations of Product Operations, exploring how it enables product teams to focus on what truly matters — building great products. Jenny shares insights on implementing product ops practices effectively, even for teams without a dedicated product ops function. From understanding the four pillars of product ops to establi
Returning to the Rocketship: Michael Sacca's Vision for Leadpages
In this special episode of Rocketship.FM, we welcome back the podcast’s original founder, Michael Sacca, for a unique and insightful conversation. Recently appointed as CEO of Leadpages, Michael brings with him a wealth of experience from his years as a product executive across early-stage startups. Now, he faces the challenge of leading an established, well-known company through a period of growth and innovation. This episode explores Michael's approach to his new role, his vision for the futur
Building an AI Storytelling Powerhouse: The Origin Story of Narratize
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito sits down with Katie Trauth Taylor, Founder and CEO of Narratize, to explore the journey behind creating an AI-driven platform that's empowering enterprises to communicate complex ideas faster and more effectively. Katie shares the frustrations that led her to launch Narratize and how her personal background as an innovator influenced the development of the platform.We dive into the hurdles she faced in the early days, how she secured enterpris
Product Discovery in the Real World: Lessons from The New York Times, Citi, and LinkedIn
In this episode, Mike Belsito sits down with Dan Blumberg, founder of Modern Product Minds and former product leader at The New York Times, LinkedIn, and Citi, to explore how product discovery works in traditional enterprises. While we often hear stories from cutting-edge tech startups, most product managers work at "normal" companies dealing with legacy systems, regulatory constraints, and established brand expectations. Dan shares practical insights on running effective discovery programs in t
Leveling Up: How Product Collective's Pendo Acquisition Amplifies the Product Community
In this revealing episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito pulls back the curtain on a significant milestone: Product Collective's acquisition by Pendo. Mike shares the origin story of Product Collective, from its humble beginnings as a passion project to its growth into a cornerstone of the product community. He candidly discusses the challenges of running a bootstrapped company and the exciting possibilities that come with joining forces with a larger entity like Pendo.
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The Rise of the Fractional CPO: Scaling Product Leadership in Early-Stage Startups
In the fast-paced world of tech startups, product leadership is crucial—but when is the right time to bring on a full-time Chief Product Officer? This episode of Rocketship.FM explores the emerging role of the fractional CPO, a game-changing solution for early-stage companies seeking experienced product leadership without the full-time commitment or cost.
Join host Mike Belsito as he sits down with Nick McEvily, a seasoned fractional CPO, to discuss the benefits of this flexible approach to prod
AI Meets Product Management: Insights from INDUSTRY: The Product Conference
In this unique episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito explores the cutting-edge intersection of AI and product management. The show kicks off with an introduction to Google's Notebook LM, a groundbreaking AI research assistant. Then, in a twist, we present an AI-generated summary of the most recent edition of INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, showcasing key takeaways on team structures, customer focus, AI integration, and essential human skills in product development. This episode offers a
The Most Common Product Strategy Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito dives into the common mistakes product managers and leaders make when developing product strategies. Featuring expert insights from Roman Pichler, a renowned product management coach and author, the episode uncovers critical pitfalls to avoid and best practices to embrace in crafting effective product strategies.From the importance of aligning with overall business goals to the necessity of evidence-based decision-making, Roman shares
Going Beyond Usage Metrics to Measure Real Product Impact
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive deep into the world of evidence-based product development with Connor Joyce, author of "Bridging Intention to Impact." Connor challenges the common assumption that high usage metrics automatically equate to product success. Instead, he introduces a comprehensive framework for measuring genuine impact on user outcomes and business goals.
Connor shares insights from his experience at Microsoft and various startups, explaining how product teams can move bey
Mastering Internal Partnerships: The Hidden Skill of Great Product Managers
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive into an often overlooked but crucial aspect of product management: working effectively with internal partners and stakeholders. Join host Mike Belsito as he interviews John Haggerty, a seasoned product leader and coach, who shares insights on how product managers can build stronger relationships within their organizations.
Learn why treating internal collaboration like a product itself can lead to better outcomes, and discover practical strategies for:
The Findaway Journey: From Startup to Spotify Acquisition
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive deep into the inspiring story of Findaway, a Cleveland-based tech company that went from a small startup to a $123 million acquisition by Spotify. Host Mike Belsito, one of Findaway's early employees, sits down with Mitch Kroll, co-founder and longtime CEO, to discuss the company's 18-year journey through various phases of growth and innovation.
Kroll shares valuable insights on entrepreneurship, product evolution, and building a successful tech company
Superhuman's AI Revolution: How Superhuman Transformed Email with Artificial Intelligence
In this captivating episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito sits down with Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, to explore the company's groundbreaking journey into AI-powered email. Vohra shares insights on how Superhuman recognized the potential of AI early on and made the bold decision to pivot their entire product strategy. He details the challenges of integrating AI features, from assembling the right team to developing a new "theta mode" of operation that accelerated their innov
Never Search Alone: Mastering your Product Job Hunt in 2024
In this episode of Rocketship.fm, host Mike Belsito dives deep into the challenging world of tech job hunting with Phyl Terry, author of "Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker's Playbook." With nearly half of US tech workers looking for new roles in 2024, this timely discussion offers invaluable insights for navigating the current job market. Phyl shares the three big ideas behind the book and "Never Search Alone" movement: understanding your candidate market fit, the power of job search councils,
Mastering Stakeholder Management as a Product Manager / Product Leader
In this insightful episode of Rocketship.fm, host Mike Belsito sits down with Bruce McCarthy and Melissa Appel, co-authors of "Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders." The conversation delves into the often challenging world of stakeholder management, offering practical advice for product managers and leaders looking to navigate complex organizational dynamics.
Throughout the episode, McCarthy and Appel share valuable strategies from their book, covering topics such as understanding
From Meta to Founder: Navigating Product Management Across Tech Landscapes
In this episode, host Mike Belsito sits down with Elliott Poppel, a product leader who's experienced both sides of the tech world - from managing products at Meta (formerly Facebook) to founding his own startup, General Collaboration. Elliott shares his journey, highlighting the stark contrasts in resources, decision-making processes, and product development approaches between tech giants and startups.
Listeners will gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities each environment p
Pay Once, Own Forever: How Jason Fried and 37 Signals is Challenging SaaS with the 'Once' Model
In this eye-opening episode, Mike Belsito sits down with Jason Fried, CEO of 37 Signals, to discuss their revolutionary "Once" family of products. Fried explains how 37 Signals is challenging the dominant SaaS model by reviving the concept of paying once to own software forever. The conversation includes the (re-)launch of Campfire, a group chat tool, and Writebook, a simple online book publishing platform, both offered under this unique model of "you host it, you own it."
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The Great CrowdStrike Crash of 2024: Lessons from a Digital Disaster
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, we dive deep into one of the most monumental tech failures in recent history - the CrowdStrike glitch that brought the world to a standstill. From grounded flights to disrupted emergency services, we explore how a single software update caused chaos on a global scale, affecting millions of people and businesses worldwide.
Join host Mike Belsito as he breaks down the incident, featuring recordings of commentary from industry experts and CrowdStrike's own CEO. We'
The Art of Influencing Without Authority (And Wisdom from Ancient Eastern Sages)
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito talks through the crucial skill of leading without authority with guest Jocelyn Davis, author of The Art of Quiet Influence. Drawing from ancient Eastern wisdom and modern leadership research, Davis offers invaluable insights for product managers and leaders who must guide teams and influence stakeholders without formal power. The episode explores three key themes: participation, power, and progress, providing practical strategies for building
Move Fast and Build AI -- The AI Story of Amplitude As Told By Its CPO
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito explores the rapid evolution of AI in product development through an engaging conversation with Francois, the Chief Product Officer of Amplitude. Francois shares insights into Amplitude's journey of integrating AI features into their analytics suite, including the challenges and unexpected learnings they encountered along the way. The discussion revolves around the new mantra "move fast and build AI," emphasizing the importance of speed and exp
Proactively Advancing Your Product Management Career
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito dives into essential career advice for product managers, featuring insights from Jackie Bavaro, co-author of "Cracking the PM Interview" and "Cracking the PM Career." The episode explores strategies for advancing in your product management career, including the importance of finding a balance between being a diligent worker and an overly vocal self-promoter. Jackie emphasizes the need to create a personal career roadmap, partner effectively wit
The 2024 Summer Edition of Shopify - A Brand New Product Launch
In this episode of Rocketship.FM, host Mike Belsito takes listeners behind the scenes of Shopify's latest product launch. Featuring an exclusive interview with Glen Coates, Shopify's VP of Product, the episode explores the company's innovative approach to introducing new features and products through their biannual "Editions" events. Coates shares insights into Shopify's product development process, the challenges of maintaining a startup mentality in a large organization, and the theme
Getting Started with Jobs-to-be-Done: Understanding the Lingo, Interviewing Customers, and more
In this episode, Mike Belsito sits down with Bob Moesta, one of the early pioneers of the Jobs to Be Done framework, to dive deep into what Jobs to Be Done is all about. Bob shares his wealth of knowledge on how to truly understand your customers by looking at the world through their eyes and examining the progress they are trying to make in their lives when they "hire" a product.
From key concepts like struggling moments, pushes, pulls, and anxiety to best practices for conducting in-depth cust
Timeless Advice for Product Managers Working in Tech
In this episode, longtime former Google product leader and current Executive Coach to Product Leaders, Ken Norton, shares his wisdom and insights, offering guidance that is essential for anyone working in tech product management. From navigating the early stages of your journey to making strategic decisions that will shape your professional path, Ken's advice is practical, inspiring, and timeless.While this episode is a must-listen for those just starting out in product management, it's
The Origin Story of DoWhatWorks and its SaaS Experimentation Engine
In this episode, we hear the origin story of DoWhatWorks from it's Co-Founder and CEO, Andres Glusman. The conversation unravels the journey from initial struggles to pivotal moments of success, illustrating how the founders' commitment to experimentation and customer feedback led to a groundbreaking product.
Discover how DoWhatWorks transitioned from a backyard idea to a company that helps businesses optimize their online experiences using a vast dataset of experiments. With a vision to become
The Inside Story: TurboTax PersonalPro's Initial Failure
In November 2014, Brian Crofts prepared for a crucial meeting with two top-level executives at Intuit. One was CeCe Morken, his boss, overseeing Intuit’s Professional Tax (ProTax) business—a $422 million enterprise selling tax preparation software to accountants. The other was Sasan Goodarzi, in charge of Intuit’s $1.8 billion TurboTax division, providing software directly to consumers.
Crofts had spent three years developing a new product, TurboTax PersonalPro, bridging the gap between these tw
Building Pendo: The Early Struggles & Eventual Strategy for Success
You will be treated to the fascinating beginnings of Pendo, a product experience platform company now valued at over two and a half billion dollars. We'll highlight Pendo's growth from an initial sponsor to a prominent supporter of product conferences. Todd Olson, Pendo's CEO, joins to recount his journey prior to Pendo at Rally Software and the subsequent challenges that inspired the creation of Pendo. Todd delves into the significance of the close-knit founding team and their collecti
Product Market Fit: A Deep Dive
In this episode of Rocketship.fm, hosts Michael Sacca and Mike Belsito take listeners through an in-depth examination of the pivotal business concept known as product market fit. They begin by acknowledging that, despite frequently using the term, they haven't fully dissected its meaning in previous episodes. They outline the importance of product market fit, describing it as a critical transition point that can propel a startup from uncertainty to being a market leader or at least demonstrating
TikTok on the Chopping Block: The TikTok Controversy in the United States
Are you keeping up with the TikTok saga? The tides are shifting yet again, and this time the app faces a significant crossroad in the United States. Join us on the latest episode of Rocketship.fm as we delve into the complexities surrounding TikTok's potential ban and what it could mean for the tech industry and beyond.
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The Sprig Journey to Product Market Fit plus Tech Industry Insights
In this episode, Michael Sacca and Michael Belsito drop some major news before diving into the latest developments in the AI space. They discuss the tempered expectations surrounding generative AI and its impact on tech giants and consumers alike. Amidst the AI hype, companies are cautious about investing in new AI services due to high costs and questionable productivity gains.
Later, they explore the product-market fit journey of Sprig, a product research platform, with CEO Ryan Glasglow. Glasg
Looking back on our 2023 Predictions
In this episode, join us as we revisit the predictions made last year and assess their impact on the tech landscape. The forecast of an impending recession, particularly hitting the tech sector first, has proven true, with notable companies facing multiple rounds of layoffs. The unsettling trend of stocks rising amidst job cuts continues to raise eyebrows, painting a complex economic picture.
On a brighter note, the prediction that AI is here to stay is reaffirmed. Far from being a passing fad,
From Concept to Market: The PMF Journey of Dagster
On todays episdoe we discuss Dagster, a data orchestration platform developed by Dagster Labs, founded by Nick Schrock in 2018. Schrock, known for co-founding GraphQL, envisioned Dagster as a solution to the challenges of managing complex data pipelines reliably and at scale. The discussion centers on exploring Dagster's history, particularly focusing on the journey to finding product-market fit.Sacca mentions his recent interview with Pedram Navid, the Head of Data Engineering and DevR
Beyond Sight: Unpacking the Apple Vision Pro
Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca reflect on the common occurrence in the consumer tech industry where new competitor products emerge to overshadow original popular products, citing examples like the iPhone overtaking the Blackberry and Facebook surpassing MySpace. They discuss the rarity of a new competitor product being priced significantly higher than the original, such as the iPhone compared to the Blackberry's price point. This conversation leads them to introduce the main focus of the episode
Streamlining Workflows: The Asana Automation Journey
Today, hosts Michael Sacca and Mike Belsito dive into the intricacies of a product that has sparked both admiration and frustration among its users: Asana.
As they unpack Asana's evolution, they explore its inception by co-founders Justin Rosenstein and Dustin Moskovitz, with Dustin's departure from Facebook marking the genesis of a vision for modernizing project management. From its beta days to the 2011 public launch, Asana's rapid growth and intuitive interface captured the hearts of users, b
Biden's Robo Call + The best of CES
Tune in to the latest episode of Rocketship.FM as hosts Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca dive into the exciting world of tech products and innovations. In this episode, they explore recent developments from the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and discuss the latest trends shaping the tech landscape. From deepfake robocalls impersonating political figures to groundbreaking AI-powered devices like the rabbit r1, listeners will gain insight into the ethical implications and practical application
The Story Behind Andrew Wilkinson's Flow App
The podcast episode discusses Andrew Wilkinson's entrepreneurial journey, particularly focusing on his founding of the company Flow, a task tracking and productivity app for teams and small businesses. The conversation delves into the challenges faced by Flow as a bootstrapped business in a competitive market dominated by venture-backed giants like Asana. Despite their focus on product design and passionate user base, Flow struggled to compete against well-funded competitors like Asana, which ha
📰 Invision, Pitch & CPTO's + 👩🏼💻 Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Product Operations with Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
In the first episode of 2024, hosts Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca kick off the new year with a fresh format. Introducing a segment on Product News and featuring insightful interviews, they dive into the evolving realm of Product Operations. With a special focus on the recently published book "Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Product at Scale" by Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles, the hosts explore the origins, necessity, and future trends of Product Operations. Unpacking recent
Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)
Today we talk with Ben Foster the Chief Product Officer at GoCanvas and former product manager at Ebay. Ben is a wealth of Product knowledge and experience and today we discuss the topic of A/B testing and how he's evolved his focus to be vision driven so that he doesn't miss the big opportunities to solve customer problems. This was a hard learned lesson and we hear about his experience A/B testing features with moderate success and what caused him to shift if focus.
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Playing Cards to Super Mario: The Evolution of Nintendo
The history of Nintendo traces back to 1889, when it was founded to produce handmade hanafuda. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry, being the world's largest video game company by revenue.Today we explore their 130 year history from making handmade playing cards to one of the largest video game co
Gimlet Unplugged: A Deep Dive into the World's Premier Podcast Powerhouse
From his first awkward pitch to investor Chris Sacca, to their acquisition by Spotify, Alex Blumburg has built one of the most influential companies working in Podcasts today.
The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's CEO and president respectively. In February 2019, Spotify announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million.
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From Playdates to Pixels: Debunking the Phone for Kids Debate
Mike's in a bit of a predicament. His 10-year-old son is asking for a phone. But like many parents, Mike isn't sure when the right time is to get his kid his first phone. On this episode, we weigh the positives and negatives of getting a phone, and look at how parents can be proactive in handling their children's phone use.
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Ink vs. Algorithm: The Writer Strike Dilemma
Join us as we explore the intricate relationship between human authors and AI content generation. We'll navigate the complexities of this debate at the heart of the writer's strike. Is AI an innovation to embrace or a challenge to confront? What does it mean for the future of literature, journalism, and storytelling?
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e/acc: Can a meme pave the way to a utopian society?
Effective Accelerationism, abbreviated as e/acc, represents a collection of ideas and practices geared towards maximizing the likelihood of reaching the technocapital singularity. This movement aims to create an environment where emergent consciousness can thrive. Influential figures in the tech industry, such as Marc Andreessen, have shown their support by incorporating "e/acc" into their usernames. The movement's mascot is an enigmatic "tech founder" known as Beff Jezos.
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Bloomfilter: Raising capital in a downturn
Bloomfilter is a process intelligence platform for software development. Their whole mission is built on the belief that businesses rely on software development to solve problems and deliver a better user experience. However, software development projects are notorious for missing deadlines and budget estimates. There’s some research that even shows that 2/3 of software projects are either challenged or fail altogether, while 70% of software projects are delivered late, over budget, or are not d
How tech products are funding North Korea's nuclear missile programs
We delve into the shadowy world of cybercrime and international geopolitics as we unravel the Lazarus Project, a covert operation that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry. Join us in linking a series of high-profile hacks to North Korea's clandestine nuclear weapons program. Unveiling the unsettling symbiosis between the world of technology and global security, this episode explores how seemingly innocuous tech products, when compromised, inadvertently become the lifeblood of North Kor
Zoom Zombies No More: Surviving the Commuteocalypse
In this episode, we explore the highly anticipated return to the office and the ongoing debate about productivity. Is the office the ultimate productivity booster, or have remote work's newfound freedoms improved our efficiency? Join us as we dissect the pros and cons of each work environment and hear from individuals who've made the choice. Whether you're team office or team remote, this episode will help you navigate the productivity landscape in our post-pandemic world.
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Why Most Product Launches Fail
Numerous factors can cause new products to fail. The biggest problem we’ve encountered is a lack of preparation: Companies are so focused on designing and manufacturing new products that they postpone the hard work of getting ready to market them until too late in the game. Today we'll discuss 3 of the key reasons products fail along with case studies so you don't make the same mistakes.
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Will Robots Take Over The World?
We delve into the world of humanoid robots, highlighting their journey from past disappointments to their current state of development. We'll discuss recent advancements in their mobility and capabilities, including their use in Disney's live shows. We also raise questions about the societal impact of these robots and tease an upcoming segment and even talk to the robots themselves.
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Protocol Harmony: The Evolution of Instant Messaging from AIM to XMPP and Beyond
Dive into the fascinating world of instant messaging as we explore its evolution from the iconic AIM to the revolutionary XMPP protocol. Uncover the challenges faced by AOL in enforcing open standards and the rise of decentralized networks. Join us on this captivating journey through the history of instant messaging, where innovation, legal battles, and the power of open-source solutions converge. All in an attempt to shed light on the past, present, and future of our digital conversations.
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The Complicated Rise of Sports Betting Apps
Sports betting apps have proliferated in the last year or two ever since it started to become legal across the United States. Today, we'll look into how these sports betting apps have come to such dominance, what the rise in sports betting means to sports leagues themselves, and the ethics behind making gambling so accessible.
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The Blurred Lines between Jay-Z and your favorite LLM
Open AI is buying up the rights to AP’s full catalog. But this move has been over 100 years in the making. Today we explore the history of the music industry's attempts to regulate and legislate an artist's right to be paid for their work as an attempt to understand what may happen in the near future with your favorite LLM’s.
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Love The Problem
In this week's episode we change things up and take a look back at a conversation with Ash Maurya. What does it truly mean to 'love the problem, not the solution' and are we all prone to innovator's bias? As we dig deep through early product and podcast stories - the answers may surprise you.
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XXX - Musk's Magnum Opus
In light of Twitter's recent rebrand to X, we dive into the history of Elon Musk's fascination with X branding. We trace X through Musk's history at PayPal, with his goal to create a "financial superstore," all the way to his current ambitions.
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Is Threads the Twitter Killer? Or Is Threads Dying?
Meta is trying to offer a competitor to Twitter called Threads and it's grown at record-setting pace. But how is Threads as a product? Can it really unseat Twitter or is it just another clone with no staying power? In this episode, we'll break down the ins and outs of the new app and predict the future of the social networking platform.
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Building the future of fintech + Behinds the scenes at Figma with Adam Nash
In this episode of Rocketship.fm, we delve into the extraordinary career of Adam Nash, the CEO and co-founder of Daffy, a groundbreaking fintech platform focused on charitable giving. As a renowned serial angel investor, advisor, and board member in over 100 companies, including Acorns, Gusto, Figma, and Opendoor, Adam has been at the forefront of driving innovation in the fintech industry. His investments have consistently aimed to make financial tools more accessible to the public through tech
Musk vs Zuckerberg
By now, you may have heard that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning to hit the ring for a fight for the ages. Today, we'll break down the history of the two, why they're fighting, where the fight may take place, and who wins in a fight like this.
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Does AI Have a PR Problem? with Otto Pohl
Join us on this thought-provoking podcast episode as we delve into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) and explore the burning question: Does AI have a PR problem? In today's fast-paced technological landscape, AI finds itself at the center of a colossal public relations conundrum. The allure and apprehension surrounding this transformative technology lead to a seemingly uncontrollable narrative, with people projecting their hopes and fears onto AI, triggering discussions on th
Apple's "One More Thing"
Steve Jobs made Apple famous for having "one more thing," a big surprise at the end of product announcements, like the iPod Touch and FaceTime. And now, Apple is back with yet another buried lede: Apple Vision Pro. Today, we'll look at Apple Vision Pro and learn what it’s all about and whether it changes the game for the metaverse. Plus, we'll take a glimpse backwards at other AR devices that preceded the Vision Pro.
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The People vs OpenAI
OpenAI is on their way to court, and while to some it may have seemed a matter of time until AI opened up new legal questions, the topics of the lawsuits OpenAI is involved in are pretty surprising. Today, we'll walk through three cases involving OpenAI, including a defamation suit, a suit regarding the redistribution of code, and the story of a lawyer who used ChatGPT in not quite the correct way.
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The humble beginnings of YCombinator
Since its founding in 2005, YCombinator has helped startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, and many others find success. Today, we'll trace the accelerator's history from its humble beginnings in Cambridge, Massachusetts all the way to where they are currently under new leader Garry Tan.
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ChatGPT Goes To School
ChatGPT has only been around for a short time, but it's already making waves in schools across the world. Today, we'll take a look at how students are using ChatGPT for their work, how teachers, professors, and schools are responding, and what AI means for the future of education.
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Google vs. Calendly
Recently, Michael noticed that Google placed harsh limitations on third party calendar services within its own Google Calendar product, nearly causing a major setback to his business. But Google has a history of actions just like this that can cause major ripples across business that use their services. And since Google is known to toe the line with antitrust laws, today, we dive further into Google's role in the internet community, and how its actions affect commerce for better and for worse.
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Here Come the Food Robots
Wendy's, Chipotle, and White Castle are all experimenting with food robots to help speed up their services. Today, we'll dive into how these robots fit into the businesses' ecosystems, what it means for the future of the service industry, and what it all means for human workers.
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Have the Humans Taken Back Control of AI? + Google’s Big AI Day
In this episode we delve into two significant developments in the world of Google. First, we explore the leaked "No Moat" memo that sent shockwaves through the tech industry. Join us as we dissect the contents of this controversial document that exposed the concerns about Google's competitive advantage and the challenges it faces in a rapidly evolving landscape.
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When Should Kids Get a Phone?
Mike's in a bit of a predicament. His 10-year-old son is asking for a phone. But like many parents, Mike isn't sure when the right time is to get his kid his first phone. On this episode, we weigh the positives and negatives of getting a phone, and look at how parents can be proactive in handling their children's phone use.
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Are we gambling with our future? Common-sense AI regulations to save us from ourselves.
In the wake of rapid AI advancements, concerns over the regulation and ethical use of AI have become increasingly urgent. With the EU AI Act recently proposed, there is hope that common-sense regulation can address some of these concerns. The Act includes a list of prohibited AI practices and requirements for high-risk AI systems, but there is still debate over whether it goes far enough. As we grapple with the question of how to regulate AI in a way that promotes innovation while also
How Google Fell Behind
In this episode, we delve into the history of Google's involvement in the AI race and explore the reasons behind why the tech giant fell behind its competitors. We examine the challenges and missteps that Google faced, and discuss how the company is working to catch up and regain its position as a leader in the field of AI. Join us as we explore this fascinating topic and learn more about the future of AI and its impact on the tech industry.
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Elon Musk's Twitter
It’s been a few months since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and it hasn’t exactly been a quiet six months. Today, we'll break down all of the company's latest controversies and features, as well as the future of Twitter, and how it may fold into Musk's bigger plans with his "X" brand.This podcast is brought to you by:Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now.Ampla: Go to getampla.com to fill out your five minute application today.Gigantic: Learn more a
The Psychology of Failure with Jerry Colonna (Rebroadcast)
Today we sit down with Jerry Colonna. Jerry is an American venture capitalist and professional coach who played a prominent part in the early development of Silicon Valley. He is known as the CEO whisperer and is famous for being Alex Blumbergs executive coach at Gimlet captured for the Startup podcast. Jerry get's personal with Mike Belsito about his own failures and helps to put our work accomplishments and our personal worth into perspective.This podcast is brought to you by:Shopify:
The art of finding joy (The missing keynote from Industry Europe)
Michael Sacca, Former Chief Product Officer at Dribbble, gives a talk about his loss of joy in building products in the last few years. Misaligned KPIs and over-processed processes have led to a burnout of creativity across the product landscape. The increasing trend of financial engineering in products has resulted in imbalanced priorities, causing pressure on product leaders to maintain balance.
As processes become too rigid, it becomes harder to be a human day in and day out. Passion doesn't
AI Is Having a Moment; Google’s Bard vs ChatGPT, Mozilla.ai
In this podcast episode, we delve into the exciting world of artificial intelligence and the recent developments in the field. We focus on three specific AI models that are currently making waves: Google's Bard, ChatGPT, and Mozilla.ai.
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Silicon Valley Bank Tumbles
In early March, Silicon Valley Bank found itself in the middle of a rapid collapse. Today, we'll dive into the history of Silicon Valley Bank, how it found itself in the middle of its tumultuous meltdown, and how businesses can be better protected from similar banking failures in the future.
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The Future of Mobility
Today, we take a trip to Rotterdam, a large metropolitan city in the Netherlands that has taken steps in recent years to put itself at the forefront of the future of mobility. In this episode, we'll cover what these advancements mean for reducing carbon emissions, and what it may look like as mobility tech spreads across the world.
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The Art of Bouncing Back with Coach Dar
No matter who you are, what you do, or what precautions you take, life never goes as expected. Setbacks are guaranteed and, when they happen, getting back into the game isn't easy. In The Art of Bouncing Back, therapist and mental skills coach Darleen Santore teaches readers how to tackle the toughest challenges, bounce back with resiliency, and thrive through adversity.
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The “Peanut Butter Manifesto” – The Leaked Yahoo Memo
Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo! senior vice president, wrote an internal memo urging Yahoo! company, famously known as The “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” pointed out Yahoo’s lack of focused, a cohesive vision, using peanut butter as a metaphor for spreading its resources too thinly.
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Bing's Bizarre Chatbot
This week, we're back with yet another update on AI chat bots, as the New York Times' Kevin Roose had a pretty bizarre exchange with Bing's chat bot, powered by OpenAI. So to get to the bottom of things, we brought ChatGPT's Assistant back onto the show. Plus, we'll dive into how Bing ended up in partnership with OpenAI and what the future of chat bots may look like.
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What happened to the NFT's?
A lot has changed since our season on Web3. We've seen blue chip projects fade and valuations for NFT projects cascade. Today we'll look at why NFT values have dropped, look at specific projects we covered during the Web3 season, and think about the future of NFT's.
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Leadership lessons from the locker room with ex-NFL player Matt Mayberry
Today, we’re going to hear from ex-NFL, now keynote speaker and culture leader Matt Mayberry as he delivers us some lessons from the locker room. Matt talks about the similarities between product leaders and football coaches, and how to get everybody on board with the team's mission.
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FAA Failure
This week, we're diving into the FAA glitch that caused all flights in the U.S. to be grounded. We'll breakdown exactly what happened, the importance of tech systems being kept up to date, and what we can learn from this fiasco as product people.
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GPTZero - The Anti-ChatGPT
ChatGPT has the world buzzing, with everyone both excited and terrified for the future. But now there's a new entrant into the AI sphere, GPTZero, an app built in a couple of weeks that can already detect when an AI-Model writes a piece of content. With the field quickly evolving, one thing is certain: AI is not going away.
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Predicting 2023: AI, Crypto, and Layoffs
Last week, reviewed our predictions from 2022 and how they faired. This week, we're going to look forward to 2023 and make predictions about the next year in tech. Will layoffs in the tech industry continue? And how will Bitcoin do in 2023? All that on more on this week's Rocketship.fm.This podcast is brought to you by:Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now.Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rockets
How accurate were our 2022 predictions? Web3, NFTs, quantum computing, SPAC's and more
Happy New Year! We look back at our 2022 predictions and measure how we did against the reality that 2022 brought. We'll dig into how 2022 faired for Web3, NFTs, quantum computing, SPACs, IPOs, and more in this special new years episode of Rocketship.fm.
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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives―with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now. Today we chat with the authors' Bill Carr & Colin Bryar about their time working directly with Jeff Bezos on some of Amazon's biggest product innovations.
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John Madden: The legend of Madden Football's product leader
Today, we’re going to bring you an episode on the incredible product journey of Madden Football - in part, to honor the recent passing of American football legendary coach, broadcaster, and, in a way, product person - today, in this special bonus episode of Rocketship.FM.
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Why TikTok, Instagram & Snapchat can't stop copying each other
TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are some of the most popular social media platforms today, with millions of users around the world. Despite their different approaches to social media, these platforms have one thing in common: they are constantly copying each other's features. From Instagram's adoption of Tiktoks video format to Tiktoks inclusion of Instagram’s social features, these platforms are always looking to stay ahead of the game by copying their competitors. In this article, we explore t
Rocketship.fm interviews ChatGPT
Chat GPT is a new language processing technology that's set to revolutionize the way we interact with computers and machines. It's the latest development in the field of artificial intelligence, and it's got a lot of people talking. It’s a product of OpenAI and was opened up in a public beta on November 30th – and it’s already surpassed 1 million users. Today we interview ChatGPT itself in what is a first for us here on Rocketship.fm - our first interview with an AI.
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Ticketing Terror
Ticketing. Where just these past couple of weeks, we’ve heard about major stories like the Taylor Swift on-sale fiasco and major issues at the at the biggest sporting event in the world.
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The real history behind Black Friday and the ever-expanding universe of Cyber days.
We’re going to explore the history of black friday and try to figure out why Cyber Week is quickly turning into Cyber Month.
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Who is Ramnik Arora? The fixer behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s & FTX’s $2 billion raised
Sam Bankman-Fried met with 100-some investment firms successfully raising $2 billion in venture capital funding, but he didn’t do it alone. Today we explore the continuing saga of the FTX collapse and learn more about Ramnik Arora, the fixer behind the scenes. This podcast is brought to you by:Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today.Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/RocketshipShopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now.Felix
The Wide World of Fantasy Sports
Fantasy sports has become a big business, and today, we're diving into the industry's origins, its implications on big tech, and the criticism it's faced as a potential form of gambling. To get the full scoop, we also hear from Eric Balkman, who runs the Fantasy Football Players Championship, and Matt Kalish, who co-founded DraftKings.
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Never ending tech layoffs, winners and losers of the week & CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Reporter Julia Boorstin on When Women Lead
The tech layoffs continue as Stripe slashed 1,000 jobs, or 14% of its workforce, and Lyft and Affirm joined the fray. Twitter recently made big cuts as Elon Musk cut the Twitter workforce in half, and now Meta is getting ready to announce significant cuts later this week.
Leaders dramatically overestimated tech’s pandemic-fueled boom. Or, they thought they had more to do with the boom than they actually did. Even as Covid-19 shut down much of the economy, the digital realm continued to thrive a
AI's rapid advancements, AI Steve Jobs & an interview with David Cancel
Artificial Intelligence is moving incredibly fast and is going to touch every part of the product world sooner or later. Today we'll look into some of these ways, including how AI is trained to create art, how AI is able to create music without human help, and a future where AI can create believable recreations of peoples' voices. Then we hear from David Cancel, who Mike talked to at Industry, about customers' changing expectations, what product people should aim to learn from spending time with
Product Therapy: Amnon - with Christian Idiodi
In our final installment of Product Therapy, Christian talks to Amnon, who is coming into a product leadership position where he is tasked with changing the entire mindset for how product is approached. He asks Christian about how to change the mindset of people outside of the product team, how to know if his voice is suitable for the role of evangelizing, and Christian gives advice on how to build a strong relationship with organizational leadership.
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Product Therapy: Rotem - with Christian Idiodi
In today's Product Therapy episode, Christian talks to Rotam about being a first time product leader, how to interview potential team members, and how to manage a remote team.
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Product Therapy: Adir - with Christian Idiodi
Today, we're starting a new mini-series with Christian Idiodi called Product Therapy. In these episodes, we'll listen into conversations with Christian as he coaches clients on their product journeys. On this episode, Christian talks to Adir, a first-time VP of product, about managing his team, communicating with his boss, and how to delegate and advocating for his team.This podcast is brought to you by:Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today.Zapier: Try Zapier for fr
Musk vs. Twitter, Trouble in the Metaverse, and Bitcoin on Amazon Prime
Elon Musk has reversed course and is now looking to buy Twitter again, at his original price. He also drops hints about what he’s looking to do with his re-acquired domain, X.com, making it the all-in-one app to do everything for everyone. There’s also trouble in the Metaverse as Zuckerburg struggles to find a vision and Coinbase produces its own documentary, Coin. So dust off your Amazon Prime video account to watch this hour and a half infomercial on Brian Armstrong and the Coinbase team as th
The Rise and Fall of Toys R Us
Inside the wild and tumultuous history of Toys R Us, the beloved children's brand once again attempting a comeback with in-store shops at Macy's just in time for the holidays.
What was once one of the first “category killers,” has faced troubled times. Now, the beloved toy store is reopening its doors once more, this time from inside select Macy's department stores across the US. The in-store shops are currently operating in Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, Nevada, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, a
Samsung’s Grocery Store Beginnings
Today, we all know Samsung as a behemoth in the tech world. But the company actually started from humble beginnings, shapeshifting through wars and different governments to the conglomerate it is today. In this episode, we'll journey through all of Samsung's history.This podcast is brought to you by:Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today.Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/RocketshipShopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now
How eBay lost to Amazon
In the early 2000's eBay was in direct competition with Amazon but they had very different methodologies when approaching the market. Today we dive into some of the mistakes eBay made in this time where they caught themselves focusing on the wrong metrics and ultimately the wrong side of the market. These mistakes ultimately led to the huge differences in the trajectory of where these companies are today. We talk with Ben Foster, the CPO at GoCanvas, about his time at eBay from 2001-2005 where h
Youtube started as a dating site?!
When it was launched in 2005, according to co-founder Steve Chen, Youtube was designed as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams. Co-founder Jawed Karim also talked about YouTube’s romantic origins. “We even had a slogan for it: Tune in, Hook up.”
Despite offering to pay women $20 to upload videos of themselves to YouTube, nobody came forward, forcing Chen, Karim and co-founder Chad Hurley to adopt a different strategy.
Today we explore the epic
Taking Off with YCombinator
Since its founding in 2005, YCombinator has helped startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, and many others find success. Today, we'll trace the accelerator's history from its humble beginnings in Cambridge, Massachusetts all the way to where they are currently under new leader Garry Tan. ***This episode is brought to you by:Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today.Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/RocketshipShopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to
MoviePass Returns
By the summer of 2018, MoviePass seemed like the best deal around, but it turned out the company's model of unlimited movies for $9.99 a month was too good to be true. Now, MoviePass is back under original management, and we're here to break down the company's history and future.
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The Cat's Meow: An Update on Cool Cats
Last season, Michael ran into the creators of Cool Cats, a once-blue chip NFT project, at the Cameo Pass party. Today, we'll catch up on where the project has gone since then, from a strong rise to a quick fall.
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Tiktok vs the United States of America
A commissioner with the U.S. communications regulator is asking Apple and Google to consider banning TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns related to the Chinese-owned company. But this isn’t the first run-in with the US Government the Social Media platform has faced. We’ll track the last few years of Tiktoks legal troubles as they’ve been wrapped up in the middle of global politics and emerging data and privacy concerns.
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Rogers' Big Blackout
Today, we're talking about Rogers, one of Canada's largest companies and a giant in the telecom space. Specifically, we'll be diving into how a coding error brought down half the internet in Canada - payment gateways and all - for an entire day.
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The Ups and Downs of Soylent
Today, we'll take a dive into the story of the meal replacement company Soylent. We'll cover everything from the unlikely team, to the product's side effects, and even Neil deGrasse Tyson's live reaction to the drink.
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Nintendo, 130 years in the making
The history of Nintendo traces back to 1889, when it was founded to produce handmade hanafuda. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry, being the world's largest video game company by revenue.
Today we explore their 130 year history from making handmade playing cards to one of the largest video game console ma
The Ever Elusive Apple iCar
Today, we look back at the history of Apple's iCar to try and figure out what went wrong, and if we can expect it to come out in the future.
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Blue Apron's IPO and a Case of Bad Timing
Today, we’ll be digging into one of the biggest meal delivery kit services out there, Blue Apron. We'll dive into their rise, their IPO, and where they stand in the market today.
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The rise and fall of Netscape
In 1995, Netscape made a splash with a huge IPO. But later that year, Windows 95 threatened to make Netscape irrelevant. Today, we'll take a look at how Netscape rose to prominence, and eventually came crashing down.
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The Rapid Success of Disney+
Today we'll take a look at Disney+, a streaming service that Disney hopes can go toe to toe with big streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime.***This episode is brought to you by:Produx Labs: New students can use the code ROCKET at checkout to enroll in Product Institute Foundations for just $999. That’s a $200 savings!Justworks: Find out how Justworks can help your business by going to justworks.comDrata: Listeners can get 10% off by visiting drata.com/partner/rocketshipThe Economist: G
Burning $75 Million - The story of Justin Kan’s Atrium
In 2017 Justin Kan, the founder of Twitch which sold for $1B to Amazon in 2014, set out to build his next billion dollar company. But this time it wasn’t so easy.
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The mind-boggling growth of Neuralink
While Elon Musk is known for his high profile ventures like Tesla and SpaceX gain tons of attention, his lesser known project Neuralink looks to connect humans with computers using brain implants. Today, we'll walk through the company's quick growth as well as its controversies.
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The Spectacular Fall of CNN+
CNN+ was live for less than a month before it’s parent company Waner Brothers Discovery decided to shut it down. Low subscriber numbers is part of the equation, but the real story behind the $100 million dollar failure is much more complicated.
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The Rise of Bumble
Today, we embark on a brand new branded season focused on telling more product stories. Today, we'll look at the beginnings of the dating app Bumble, and how CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has grown it to success, becoming the youngest women to bring a company to IPO.
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Web3: TerraUSD
On the final episode of our Web3 season, we take a look at TerraUSD, its counterpart Luna, and its found Do Kwan. Plus, we discuss the risks associated with ventures in the Web3 space.
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Web3: The Mickey Mantle NFT
Today, Mike tells the story of how he and a childhood friend risked a significant chunk of their savings to try and buy a one of one Mickey Mantle NFT. Plus, Mike talks with Topps' ice president and Global General Manager of Digital Tobin Lent about the company's plans for future baseball card-related NFT projects.
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Web3: Woodies
This week, we take a look at the NFT project "Woodies" and how it looks to offer its community gatherings based on outdoor activities. Later on, Woodies' co-founder and community manager Richard Powazynski talks about the power of NFT's to unlock value in community.
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Web3: ConstitutionDAO
Today, we check back in on the ConstitutionDAO situation we covered last season to see how the dust has settled with its investors, and look at how DAO's work within the framework of cryptocurrency.
You can listen to our previous episode on ConstitutionDAO here.
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Web3: The Cameo Pass Party
In this episode, Mike brings us inside the Cameo Pass Party where he talks to community members and even shakes Stanley from The Office's hand. Then, he breaks down the value of real world utilities that come from NFT purchases.
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Web3: Mike joins Cameo Pass
Today, Mike breaks down his foray into Cameo Pass and breaks down the real-world benefits that NFT's can offer.
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Web3: Non-Fungible Thingamajigs
Today we take a look at the many use cases for NFT’s. From access tokens, to rights in a Hollywood movie, NFT’s are being utilized in all different ways in this strange new world of Web3.
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Web3: The Breakneck Speed of SOL Labs
If Web2 is a freight train, Web3 is the hyperloop in terms of the pace and speed of development. Is this the future of work we should all be prepared for? As Sacca begins investing in Solana NFT’s, we take you behind the scenes at Solana Labs with their Head of Design, Joshua Taylor. He describes what it’s like to work on an L1 blockchain inside their Web3 incubation lab.
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Web3: Mike's first NFT
On today's episode, we dive deeper into the Tilt's use of a Creator Coin and NFTs to bring its creator community together. Plus, Mike talks about his experience buying his first NFT.
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Web3: Down the Rabbit Hole
On the first episode of season 12, we start a deep dive into Web3 that will ultimately lead to Mike's first foray into NFT's, cryptocurrency, and the whole nine yards. Today, we talk to members of the Tilt community, including founder Joe Pulizzi, a creator community that uses cryptocurrency called $TILT coin to bring the community together.
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Product Journeys: Drip
When Rob Walling launched Drip, he was doing $7K in monthly recurring revenue. But he quickly realized that his revenue had already flat-lined and that he had a high customer churn problem. He was competing with behemoths like Mail Chimp and Marketo with a team of just 3 engineers.
Drip started as a simple opt-in pop-up with an autoresponder. It then evolved into an email service provider, to finally become a marketing automation platform. That’s when it hit real product-market fit and churn imm
Digital Transformations: Sling TV and Ordnance Survey
On our last installment of our Digital Transformations miniseries featuring Christian Idiodi, we take a look at how organizations both old and new can go through a transformation journey. Plus, Christian reflects on the most important lessons we learned over the last few episodes.
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Digital Transformations: John Deere and Ramsey Solutions
On today's installment of our Digital Transformations mini-season with Christian Idiodi, we're talking about household brands John Deere and Ramsey Solutions, and how they underwent changes among its people and processes in order to achieve their transformation.
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Digital Transformations: Datasite
Today, we're introducing a mini-season featuring Christian Idiodi, where Christian recounts stories of digital transformations within legacy organizations.
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Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)
Today we talk with Ben Foster the Chief Product Officer at WOOP and former product manager at Ebay. Ben is a wealth of Product knowledge and experience and today we discuss the topic of A/B testing and how he's evolved his focus to be vision driven so that he doesn't miss the big opportunities to solve customer problems. This was a hard learned lesson and we hear about his experience A/B testing features with moderate success and what caused him to shift if focus.
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Bonus: Product Failure Quibi
Today on Rocketship.fm, we're diving in on Quibi, covering what the short-form content company got right, and ultimately, what they got wrong. We'll look into some of the innovative technology they created, as well as the internal and external factors that helped lead to its demise.
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A Koch, a Kennedy, and a wind turbine walk into a bar…
Today, we talk with Annie Ropiek, Environmental Reporter working for NPR, about her fascinating work researching offshore winds - from the tech to the politics, there’s a lot to take away.
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Product Lessons from Christian Idiodi
Today, we kick it old school, breaking down a talk by Christian Idiodi from 2020 on the big mistakes he sees companies constantly making, and how not to make them (or fix them) at your organization.
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Antitrust: Bored Ape Lawsuit Club (Season Finale)
This season, we've covered everything from the Facebook Papers to ConstitutionDAO, taking a closer look at how the concept of antitrust, and how technology, for all it’s glorious advancements, has also helped to break down the trust we have with corporations, governments and institutions. On today's episode, we'll recap some of the biggest lawsuits facing companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook, and what the future of web3 looks like following the big year crypto and NFTs had in 2021.
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Antitrust: Asher Luzzatto for Mayor of Los Angeles
Asher Luzzatto is running for mayor of Los Angeles on a platform that is pro-technology, pro-decentralization, and pro-crypto. We've made our full interview with Asher available so you can hear what a near-future platform sounds like - and decide for yourself if this is the future you want.
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Antitrust: CryptoCities
Cities are now producing their own Cryptocurrencies and Mayors are competing to prove they are more Crypto-friendly than the next. But is this a good thing? We break down the hype around the MiamiCoin and then sit down with Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate, Asher Luzzatto, to hear about his plans to use technology as a force for good under his Mayorship.
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John Madden: Product Leader
Today, we’re going to bring you an episode on the incredible product journey of Madden Football - in part, to honor the recent passing of American football legendary coach, broadcaster, and, in a way, product person - today, in this special bonus episode of Rocketship.FM.***This episode is brought to you by:Sendinblue: Visit https://www.sendinblue.com/rocketship/ and use promo code ROCKETSHIP for 50% off your first three months on a premium accountHawke Media: Get a free consultation on
2022 Tech Predictions
On today's episode, we talk about our predictions for 2022 around technology, work, marketing, and general industry trends, and then we’ll wrap up what we’re most excited about and what we’re least excited about.
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Antitrust: Counterfeit Goods (and why your Amazon cart is full of them)
Due to the nature of Amazon's third-party seller system, it's becoming more difficult for for Amazon to actually police products for counterfeit goods. This is creating a problem where customers who get sold a fake product have no recourse. But not all counterfeits are bad. In this episode, we'll discuss the problems customers face with counterfeit items, but also the innovative counterfeit culture, like Shanzhai, which finds ways to improve existing products by working outside of copyright laws
Antitrust: Democratization of Investments
With the advent of apps like Robinhood and laws like Reg CF, people have more access to investments than ever. But with more power comes more responsibility. Today, we'll talk about the groups who made investing more democratic, and we’ll how they may actually be responsible for some very serious things. Because, there’s actually a bit of downside to this democratization of investments as well. All this and more on today's episode of Rocketship.fm.
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Antitrust: Product Addiction (with Nir Eyal)
Products collect more data on us than ever before. While it’s generally used to improve our experience, the algorithms and product experiences have gotten so good it’s near indistinguishable from magic, and we can’t get enough. It’s burning us out, so much so that people are now regularly announcing social media hiatuses and taking fancy remote retreats just to get away. So how did this happen and what can we do - today on Rocketship.fm.
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Antitrust: Engagement Loops (are ruining the world)
Engagement loops themselves are not inherently bad - but at scale they may causing more harm than good when applied to massive social networks. In the context of connecting billions of people around the world on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, they’re having a negative effect on society that is degrading our trust in each other and the system that govern. Today, we talk about the ways that feedback loops are shaping the way we think and how people in positions of wealth and power e
Antitrust: ConstitutionDAO
A consortium of crypto investors pulled together $47 million worth of ether in a week to try to buy a rare, first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution at a Sotheby’s auction — and lost. Today we cover the auction and aftermath of this historical moment.
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Antitrust: Web3, DAOs, ICOs & Protocols
In the evolving world of Web3 there are some incredible developments from the ConstitutionDAO to Solana, a new blockchain that’s faster and more efficient that both Bitcoin and Etherium. But with these new advancements there are scams abound in this unregulated world. Today we take another look at the emerging world of Web3.
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Antitrust: Cryptocurrency
It's been a wild past few years for cryptocurrency. And these days, while Bitcoin still takes up the spotlight — there are so many different alt-currencies that have sprouted up, too. Some of them even spired by memes and television shows. But, is this all a good thing or a bad thing?
On one hand, cryptocurrency has some serious upside. For unstable economies, it provides the stability needed for their market to thrive — despite its own volatility. Its decentralized governance, by design, makes
Antitrust: The Facebook Papers
The internal documents now known as The Facebook Papers, or Facebook Files, are a damning documentation of how the social media giant knowingly causes real world harm. Examples include measures to suppress hateful, deceptive content are lifted after the American presidential election in 2020, as the pro-Trump group “Stop the Steal,” which disputes the legitimacy of the election, experience “meteoric” growth. A dummy test account on Facebook in India is flooded with violent anti-Muslim propaganda
Antitrust: Data Privacy & Ownership
Today, we're diving into the deep and dark world of data and privacy. The internet is filled with bad actors intent on harvesting data with intents varying from selling to the highest bidder to influencing elections. Big tech companies like Facebook and Google are able to track everything we do online (and offline). Do we even have privacy anymore? Thankfully, there are companies actively working to make it easier for us, the consumers, to control our data and governments are not only enacting
Antitrust: Hustle Culture
While we started with the Lawsuits, today I want to take a different look at the concept of Anti-trust, focusing on a place where trust has been broken amongst the entrepreneurial community. Hustle Culture promotes this idea that if you work around the clock and live on 2 hours of sleep a day, the world will be your oyster and you'll be rich, famous and powerful. We now have an entire generation that is living without a safety net and forced into this world of non-stop hustle. In reality, these
Antitrust: (Mis)information
Today we’re going to explore how the internet has evolved to both democratize access to information, leading to incredible breakthroughs, and be a platform for spreading mass misinformation at rates and scales we’ve never seen before.
At times, the internet represents the best part of humanity on display. One country releases the genetic sequence of a virus that’s spreading globally and scientists around the world get to work creating a never-before-created vaccine using technology that has nev
Antitrust: The Lawsuits
Technology’s rapid advance has undermined society’s foundations. As misinformation spreads, privacy vanishes, and counterfeit goods proliferate, science promises us further advances, from stronger artificial intelligence to neuralink implants and quantum computing. More upheaval is on its way.
But the same advances that have created these hard problems have also connected people the world over, democratized information access, and let small businesses expand nationally and even globally. And wit
Bubble Trouble with ex-Chief Economist at Spotify Will Page and independent analyst Richard Kramer
Today, we sit down with the hosts of Bubble Trouble, ex-Chief Economist at Spotify Will Page and independent analyst Richard Kramer, as they lay out some inconvenient truths about how financial markets really work.
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Introducing Compiler
Compiler is an original podcast from Red Hat discussing tech topics big, small and strange. In this episode, Angela Andrews and Brent Simoneaux dive into whether or not managers should learn to code. They speak with Red Hatters who are vocal about what role, if any, that managers have in the code base—and why they fight to keep their hands on keys for as long as they can.
Check out Compiler wherever you listen to podcasts.
The ethics and implications of growth at all costs with consumer advocate Adam Levin
With over 50 years working in consumer protections, Adam Levin has helped to spur some of the largest consumer protection cases and has built some of the largest consumer protection brands throughout his career. Today he joins us to discuss what he’s learned - from the Firestone Tire Recall of 1978 to building Credit.com. Today Adam is the host of “What the hack with Adam Levin,” and the the author of the Amazon Best Seller Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, a
Rapid Research with Sarah Doody
Today we discuss ways that we can learn from our customers and integrate it into the product decision-making process. But. we’re not talking about asking customers what they want. we’re simply talking abou learning from them. Hopefully, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford aren't too disappointed.
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Cracking the Product Management career with Jackie Bavaro
Jackie Bavaro brings her expertise to this episode with some advice for those who are looking to get ahead in their career as a Product Manager, and move into product leadership roles.
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Leading Product Teams with Jules Walter, Product Leader at Youtube
Jules Walter -- a Product Leader at YouTube takes us through the key lessons learned when transitioning from Product Manager to Product Leader.
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JEDI mind tricks with Teresa Torres
Teresa developed her very own Customer Discovery framework, which is central to the work she does today. She recently released a book -- Continuous Discovery Habits that really goes deep into that framework. But today, she's here to talk about how product can to better support Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through her JEDI principles.
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Beyond the MVP: A framework for continued product success with Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya is the author of Running Lean, Scaling Lean, and Creator of Lean Canvas and in today's bonus episode is here to talk about how to build a successful framework for ongoing product success, especially after a launch. There are so many frameworks focused on getting you to market, but what about all the problems that come up after launching? Don't worry, Ash has some ideas for you today.
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Reimagining Mens Health: One founders journey from personal recovery to mass market
Saad Alam, two-time founder, found himself struggling mentally and physically after his first exit and he had no idea how to fix it - and neither did most of the doctors he went to see. This set him on a journey to solve this mystery of what was happening to his body, and as a result set him on a path to reimagining men's access to testing and treatment with Hone Health.***This episode is brought to you by:Vidyard: The Top Video Tool for SaaS Marketing and Sales http://vidyard.com/rocke
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives―with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now. Today we chat with the authors' Bill Carr & Colin Bryar about their time working directly with Jeff Bezos on some of Amazon's biggest product innovations.
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Outer Space Tow Trucks with Rogue.space
Today we welcome Jeromy Grimmet of Rogue.Space to discuss their evolution into a space tow truck company and what the future holds for private companies in space.
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Workplace Confessions with Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur magazine: "My boss can’t write a simple email" & "I ghosted a company, and I don’t feel bad"
Today we welcome Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur magazine, to the show to help us make sense of our final two confessions of Season 10! We hope you've enjoyed this season as much as we have.
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Workplace Confessions with Dan Shapiro the CEO of Glowforge: "My side hustle turned out to be a lot of work" & "Sometimes, I feel like Bill Lumberg"
Today we welcome Dan Shapiro, the CEO of Glowforge. Perviously he was the CTO of Photobucket, sold Sparkbuy to Google and has launched two of the largest Kickstarter campaigns in history with Glowforge and Robot Turtles.
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Workplace Confessions with Thor Ernstsson of Strata: "Am I crazy for wanting to build this?" & "Can somebody tell me when we’ve found product market fit, please?"
This week we welcome Thor Ernstsson of Strata.cc to help us with more product and founder focused confessions around product market fit.
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Workplace Confessions with Amy Hood of Hoodzpah: "I never planned on this" & "Can’t handle the sweatshop"
This week we welcome the one and only Amy Hood of Hoodzpah who is a world-renowned agency with clients such as Disney, Target, ESPN, Redbull, & Nike. We have confessions all about freelancing, knowing your worth, pricing and much more.
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Workplace Confessions with Lolita Taub: "My friends don’t know I’m an angel investor" & "Career speed bump"
This week we welcome Lolita Taub, the cofounder and general partner at the Community Fund. The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund that invests in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. Lolita helps us sort through todays confessions from someone who is a secret angel investor (and wants to keep it that way) and someone who's career hit a speed bump due to Covid.
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Workplace Confessions with Christie Kim of Persona: "We look great to the outside world, but really -- we’re just a mess" & "Sometimes, being a mentor overwhelms me"
This week we welcome Christie Kim, the COO of Persona to the show to help us answer some more burning confessions from listeners. Today we have a confession from someone working at the startup that looks great on the outside, but internally things are a mess. Plus someone who doesn't feel so comfortable being a mentor even though their resume says they have more than enough experience to help others.
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Workplace Confessions with Hossein Azari, CEO of Cmorq: "Trying to get ahead" & "NFTs?"
Is Crypto the answer to all of your money woes? Probably not. We bringing special guest Hossein Azari to help us answer two more listener questions focused on Crypto currencies and NFTs.
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Introducing Creative Elements
After working with creatives for 10+ years, We know that earning a living from your art and creativity can be tough.
That’s why we're such a fan of Jay Clouse and his show Creative Elements. Creative Elements is a highly produced narrative-interview show. Jay interviews high-profile, successful creators about how they built a business from their creativity. Think of it like “How I Built This” for digital creators.
And he talks to these creators about the aspects of their personality or approach
Workplace Confessions with Justin Shriber, CMO at People.ai: "I hide things from our sales team" & "We have fake advisors at our startup"
Today on the show we welcome Justin Shriber, the CMO at People.ai, to the show to help us work through two new confessions "I hide things from our sales team" & "We have fake advisors at our startup"
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Workplace Confessions with Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI: "My friends think I’m a millionaire, but I’m actually struggling" & "I really need to get away from my family"
We welcome Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder & President, of Boast.AI to help us sort through two brand new confessions. Our first is from a founder who's friends think they're doing really well, but they're in fact struggling and not sure how to let everyone know. The second is from someone who can't wait to get back into the office to get some real heads-down time.
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Workplace Confessions with Anna Ratala CEO & co-founder of Zvook.co: "I miss taking work-related vacations" & "I got my product-MBA from podcasts like yours"
Today we welcome Anna Ratala, CEO & co-founder of Zvook.co, to the show to discuss two more confessions. We're all sick of being at home and some of us are missing work trips for various reasons, but this confessor is looking forward to a little break from their family. Another listener asks, what is the value of an MBA?
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Workplace Confessions with Amanda Goetz: "I can’t manage anymore" & "Bad Partner"
What do you do if you just can't manage the juggle of working from home while raising a family? Or how should a CEO handle a partner who crossed a line with one of his employees? We welcome Amanda Goetz, the founder of House of Wise, to the show today.
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Introducing Freelance to Founder
Freelance to Founder features real-time coaching sessions with freelancers who want to scale their service business.
In each episode, show co-hosts Preston Lee and Clay Mosley—who have both scaled their one-person businesses to something bigger—help guests and listeners on their journey to finally achieve “founder” status.
Freelance to Founder is your weekly dose of real-world, practical, actionable advice to take your service-based business to the next level—with occasional surprise guest exper
Workplace Confessions with Ben Parr of Octane ai: "Two layoffs in a global pandemic" & "Priced just right"
One layoff is tough, two are even harder to bounce back from. So how do you get back out into the workforce after two layoffs during a global pandemic? How do you price your product just perfect for a market? We discuss these two problems with Ben Parr, the journalist, author, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur.***This episode is brought to you by:Bespoke Post: With a new line up of essential Box of Awesome collections for guys, Bespoke Post is guaranteed to upgrade your life. Use cod
Workplace Confessions with Mac Conwell of RareBreed Ventures: "I Told You So, Mr. VC" & "I’m not really killing it"
How should a founder handle the urge to show a VC who passed on their round that it was a huge mistake? Or what should you do if you're not actually "always killing it." Is it ok just be doing ok? We bring in Mac Conwell, the founder of RareBreed Ventures, to discuss these confessions and more.
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Introducing Trail Weight
We want to tell you about a new podcast called “Trail Weight,” a show for anyone looking to make a change in their life and maybe go on an adventure.
Starting on April 15th, “Trail Weight” follows host Andrew Steven on an ambitious, surprising, and transformative journey as he tries to get in shape for a month-long backpacking trip through Sierra Nevada Mountains. Through audio diaries, recordings from the trail, and conversations with authors, experts, Olympians, and more, Andrew takes listener
Workplace Confessions with Charli Marie Prangley of ConvertKit: "In-laws over Co-workers" & "My passion is not at my current company"
What happens when a product manager has trouble building rapport amongst the greater product team and how can they turn this situation around? Or when happens when a Creative finds their passion outside of their day job. We discuss this and more with Charli Marie Prangley, the Creative Director at ConvertKit.
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Workplace Confessions with Kandis O'Brien: "Hogging the spotlight" & "The Firing Squad"
What do you do when your coworker commands all the attention? When upper management sees this one person as the main strategic problem solver and the rest of the team as dispensable task monkeys? Or what happens when a company going about layoffs in the most stressful and embarrassing way possible? We talk with Kandis O'Brien, co-founder of the SIX, an experience design and innovation company.
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Workplace Confessions with Laura Roeder: "A Bootstrapper’s Secret" & "Should I stay or should I grow?"
A bootstrapper making $2 million a year doesn't feel bad that VC's aren't interested in them and a founder being pushed out of his own company because his co-founders want to raise money, something they're not comfortable with. To work through these confessions we've invited Laura Roeder, the founder of Meet Edgar and Paperbell.
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Workplace Confessions with Matthew Zachary: "Should I stay or should I go?" & "The secret sauce"
What do you do when your companies secret sauce is nothing more than simple multiplication? I mean, it's technically an algorithm but what do you do if it's not adding any insight or value to your customers? And what do you do if your job is 'just fine' but you stay because your family needs Healthcare? We bring on our special guest Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer and CEO of Offscript, to today's show to help us work through these confessions.
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Workplace Confessions with Brenna Loury of Doist: "Getting back at the system" & "My company doesn’t know I moved"
What do you do when your company tracks your every move? Or if you moved in a fit of pandemic panic and never told your company? We bring on special guest Brenna Loury, the Head of Marketing at Doist, to help us navigate through these uniquely remote confessions.
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Introducing: People of Product
Digital products power our lives, but they wouldn’t exist without the expertise and passion of real people. George Brooks and Dan Linhart co-host People of Product, an innovation podcast that brings together industry experts to share insights around product teams. Using stories and learnings from their time running a digital product agency, they explore how tech continues to transform the world around us.
You can listen to the show today by clicking this link or visiting https://www.crema.us/peo
Workplace Confessions with Lopa van der Mersch Founder & CEO of Rasa: "I stuff the complaint box" & "I'm not Steve Jobs"
What do you do when your leadership team will only act when things are on fire? We have one of our favorite confessions from a PM who is only able to get done what they want to get done if they stuff the complaint box and wait for leadership to demand change. We also have a confession from a product manager who really thought they were Steve Jobs, until their CEO set the bar much higher than planned and the team was able to step up and execute to achieve the seemingly impossible - leaving this P
Workplace Confessions with Helen Tran: "My invisible agent" & "Golden Handcuffs"
Today we answer two burning questions. First off, as a female freelancer, should you pretend to have a male agent for negotiations? Is this the only way to get paid what you're worth? And secondly, what happens when you have golden handcuffs at work, but you're absolutely miserable? We tackle both of these issues with our special guest today Helen Tran, the founder of Jupiter App.This episode is brought to you by:Bespoke Post: With a new line up of essential Box of Awesome collections f
CPO or CPNo [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]
Today we kick off our special five part series, presented by INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, with special guest Ken Norton. Over these 5 special episodes Ken will answer real questions from Rocketship.fm listeners starting with this episodes dilemma - what do you do when the board brings in a CPO who has no product experience and is butting heads with everyone internally. Ken breaks down the options.
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Zoomed Out [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]
Our second episode of this special series, presented by INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, with special guest Ken Norton. One this episode Ken breaks down a confession from a new product leader who's having trouble building relationships with new new product team now that everyone is remote. Ken gives some helpful advice on building new relationships, even when we're not in the same office.Want to attend INDUSTRY Virtual? Use code Rocketship to save $40 off your ticket.***This show is a
Unempowered [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]
Today we hear from a Product Manager who's company develops a very top down roadmap, and they're looking for advice on how to have their voice heard. Ken Norton helps us break down todays confession and offers actionable advice on what you can do to make your opinion matter in important conversations.
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I’m worried I’m biased [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]
A Product Manager is worried that their implicit bias will creep into their work when doing product research and validation. Ken Norton offers some helpful tips on how to recognize your own bias and blindspots and how to overcome them.
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Impostor syndrome [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]
This confession comes from a product manager who's not sure they have what it takes. Ken Norton offers some sound advice and encouragement.
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Workplace Confessions with Randy Silver: "I don’t know what I’m doing" & "I’m helping create a monster, and I don’t know what to do"
Today we tackle two confessions, one about impostor syndrome and the other about someone who is being paid to build an app that they feel is destructive on the greater society. We've brought in Randy Silver, who has held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s and is also the author of what Do We Do Now - a product managers guide to strategy in the time of Covid-19.This episode is brought to you by The Information. The Information has a simple mission: deliver important, deeply re
Workplace Confessions with Sanjiv Kalevar of OpenView Venture Partners: "Our investor-driven roadmap" & "My Million Dollar mistake"
This week we tackle a problem where a Product Manager feels like the board is driving their roadmap and a mistake that cost someone's company a million dollars. Sanjiv Kalevar of OpenView Ventures joins us to tackle two more workplace confessions.
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Workplace Confessions with Dan Olsen: "Climbing the Ladder" & "I Suck at Hiring"
What do you do when you think you deserve your bosses job? Or when you make too many bad hires? We discuss both issues with Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback.This episode is brought to you by The Information. The Information has a simple mission: deliver important, deeply reported stories about the technology business you won't find elsewhere.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a compa
Workplace Confessions with Melissa Perri: "Communication Conundrum" & "More than Just Awkward"
"Last year, before COVID, something happened during one of the all-hands weeks. And it was incredibly awkward." What happens when a co-worker takes an unexpected trip to your hometown... halfway across the country? We talk with product leader, author of "The Build Trap," and founder of Produx Labs, Melissa Perri about this perplexing situation.
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Workplace Confessions with Jay Clouse: "Ethical Dilemma" & "A little porn-y"
What happens when your freelance client wants you to cross a line you're not comfortable crossing? Or when a freelance client uses your work in unintended and nefarious ways? We discuss these confessions with Jay Clouse, host of Creative Elements podcast.
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Workplace Confessions with Christian Idiodi: "Running with an idea" & "I Don’t talk to Customers"
What happens when you have an idea so good you want to quit your company? Or what about a product manager who refuses to talk to customers? We discuss both confessions today with our guest Christian Idiodi.
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Workplace Confessions with Dheerja Kaur of Robinhood: "Workplace High" & "Underpaid"
What happens when your workplace is more like a high school? Or when you find out you're making 30% less than a peer, simply because you're a woman? We discuss these two confessionals with Dheerja Kaur of Robinhood.
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Workplace Confessions with Rich Mironov: "Crossing the Line" & "The Interview Roadshow"
What happens when your new boss wants you to share everything you know about your past employers' future plans? Or what about an interview process that never seems to end? We discuss our two confessions today with Rich Mironov, the author of The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator.
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Workplace Confessions with Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: "Team Bonding" & "The all-knowing CEO"
Today we tackle awkward team bonding and an overbearing CEO with Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman.
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Workplace Confessions with Ben Foster: "Our Needy Customer" & "Roadmap Hell"
Today we explore our first two confessionals with Ben Foster, CPO at WOOP and author of Build What Matters.
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Product Journeys: Earth Class Mail & Flikshop UPDATES!
Season 9 of Rocketship.fm featured a lot of great stories, however, two stood out to us and we wanted to put together a follow up to find out what has happened since we first aired. Earth Class Mail, the early 2000’s startup that was featured on it’s own reality TV show, staring Ron Weiner which has now been twice sold, has now found a new home and clear direction. We hear from Casey Shaeffer about what has been happening at the company since 2017.
Plus, we sit down with Marcus Bullock of Fliksh
Product Journeys: The history of Podcasts
How meta is this?! From the first audio broadcast on the internet to the explosion of Serial, we explore the history of the Podcasting medium in our season finale.
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Product Journeys: Signal
Signal is having a moment.
The pandemic drove unprecedented sign-ups on the encrypted messaging app, as people started communicating more online. Then, nationwide protests over police brutality prompted another round of records. Signal saw about one million downloads world-wide in May, according to analytics firm App Annie.
Protesters have flocked to the app. Even though people who organize and participate in protests are protected by the First Amendment, they often seek secure communication, ou
Season 10 Trailer: Workplace Confessionals
In Season 10 of Rocketship.fm, we’re turning the microphone on you - thats right. We’re making this entire season about your workplace confessions. Season 10 of Rocketship.fm is set to launch on February 11th.
The new season will focus around workplace confessions. We all have that workplace story that's so hard to believe we're nervous to tell it in public. Sometimes we're not sure if this is normal behavior or if we're the crazy ones for thinking it's not. In Season 10 of Rocketship.fm, we’re
Product Journeys: Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt Red. The story takes place in Night City, an open world set in the Cyberpunk universe. Players assume the first-person perspective of a customizable mercenary known as V, who can acquire skills in hacking and machinery with options for melee and ranged combat.
First introduced in 2012 and touting it's ability to be the leading RPG game, Cyberpunk 2077 built a huge cult following which was magnified when
Mental Models for Product Leaders
Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumulated over time by an individual and used to make faster and better decisions. Today to explore Mental Models for Product Leadership and how to use them with your team every day.
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Mental Models for Product Managers
A mental model is any concept that helps explain, analyze, or navigate the world. As product managers, our mental models drive our decision-making, the way we communicate and collaborate with others, and how we prioritize.
Today we explore some essential mental models for Product Managers. From opportunity cost to confirmation bias to Semmelweis reflex and even key failure. There are countless mental models that are essential for Product Managers to understand.
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Charlie Munger's Mental Models
Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see. Mental models are how we simplify complexity, why we consider some things more relevant than others, and how we reason.A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable
Product Journeys: BioNTech (Covid-19 Vaccine)
The fastest vaccine ever developed was the mumps vaccine and that took four years, from collecting viral samples to licensing the drug in 1967. This year, we watched as BioNTech, in partnership with Pfizer, developed the Covid-19 vaccine is under 11 months. Today we tell the story of how this revolutionary technology and partnership allowed for such rapid development at a time when the world needed it most.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, dist
Product Journeys: Nintendo
The history of Nintendo traces back to 1889, when it was founded to produce handmade hanafuda. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry, being the world's largest video game company by revenue.Today we explore their 130 year history from making handmade playing cards to one of the largest video game co
Product Journeys: Zappos
Zappos was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn who launched the company with Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin who invested $2 million through their investment firm Venture Frogs. The company was officially launched online in 1999 as "ShoeSite.com."
In July 1999, the company's name was changed from ShoeSite to Zappos after "zapatos," the Spanish word meaning "shoes." In 2000, Venture Frogs invested in the business and Zappos moved into their office space. In 2001, Hsieh came on board as co-CEO with Nick Sw
Product Failures: eBay
In the early 2000's eBay was in direct competition with Amazon but they had very different methodologies when approaching the market. Today we dive into some of the mistakes eBay made in this time where they caught themselves focusing on the wrong metrics and ultimately the wrong side of the market. These mistakes ultimately led to the huge differences in the trajectory of where these companies are today. We talk with Ben Foster, the CPO at GoCanvas, about his time at eBay from 2001-2005 where h
Product Journeys: Youtube
When it was launched in 2005, according to co-founder Steve Chen, Youtube was designed as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams. Co-founder Jawed Karim also talked about YouTube’s romantic origins. “We even had a slogan for it: Tune in, Hook up.”
Despite offering to pay women $20 to upload videos of themselves to YouTube, nobody came forward, forcing Chen, Karim and co-founder Chad Hurley to adopt a different strategy.
Today we explore the epic
Product Journeys: Airbnb
Long before Airbnb persuaded strangers to sleep in one another's homes and became a $31 billion company, it was just an idea to earn a bit of extra money to make rent.
After their first guests, Airbnb's founders realized they were on to something bigger than a stopgap for rent. They faced rejection plenty of times — and created their own version of Obama O's cereal — but the three founders of Airbnb have built a big business in the past nine years.
Here's how they turned their idea to rent out a
Product Journeys: Stark
Stark, a New York-based startup that lets designers others building with design software run their files through an integrated tool that checks it and provides color edits and other suggestions to help them meet guidelines for people who see less well, has picked up $1.5 million. Stark plans to use the funding to continue building integrations into commonly-used design apps and create integrations for developers (where it will read and provide guidance on code: next up is a Github integration),
Product Journeys: SEMrush
Back in 2008, SEMrush started as a small group of SEO and IT specialists united by one mission — to make online competition fair and transparent, with equal opportunities for everyone. In 12 years, they've grown into one of the world's leading competitive research service for online marketing. Today we tell the story of that journey.
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The 10 Dysfunctions of Product Management
Rapid iteration, A/B testing, and growth hacking—these buzzwords have everyone’s attention in product management today. But while they dominate the current discussion, something even more significant has been lost in their limelight: long-term value creation for the customer.
Product advisors Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster believe that consistently delivering meaningful outcomes requires a deep understanding of your customer’s definition of success. Combine a bold customer-centric vision with a
Product Journeys: Stripe
Millions of businesses of all sizes—from startups to large enterprises—use Stripe’s software and APIs to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their businesses online. Today we explore, how their founders, Patrick and John Collison started from humble beginnings in County Tipperary, Ireland to becoming the worlds youngest self-made billionaires.
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Introducing: The Teamistry podcast by Atlassian
In the aftermath of World War II, Japan must rebuild its economy. Certain products become vital exports in the revitalization effort, including the wristwatch. Seiko leaps to the forefront of the recovery, but there's a problem: their watches aren't good. The company decides to bring R&D in-house to take advantage of constructive competition between its factories, and winds up going from industry failure to time-honored player on the world stage.
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Product Journeys: Flow
Flow was launched in 2012 as a side-project from Andrew Wilkinson's creative agency Metalab, who work with companies such as Uber, Slack and Coinbase, in order to improve their own internal productivity.
They faced a huge challenger in Asana who launched just after them after raising $28 million dollars. Asana may have out spent them on marketing, but Flow stayed one stop ahead in terms of product and design for the first five years or so.
Most recently, after downsizing the company, they brough
Product Journeys: Gimlet Media
From his first awkward pitch to investor Chris Sacca, to their acquisition by Spotify, Alex Blumburg has built one of the most influential companies working in Podcasts today.
The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's CEO and president respectively. In February 2019, Spotify announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million.
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Product Journeys: Nikola
Hindenburg Research also alleges Nikola chairman Trevor Milton misled partners into signing agreements by falsely claiming to have extensive proprietary technology, as well as fabricating promotional material to give the impression rolling-chassis mockups were fully operational vehicles, but instead used a third-party powertrain rather than in-house technology.
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Product Journeys: Black Product Managers
The Black Product Managers (BPM) Network is a community of diverse product leaders who are passionate about advancing in their careers and increasing representation. Learn how they were founded and the impact they've had on the Product Management community as a whole.
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INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Dun & Bradstreet goes digital [ Part 2 ]
Dun & Bradstreet make a digital transformation and it's all on one Product Managers shoulders. We also discuss Yardley's founding of Women in Product. For more information go to womenpm.org.
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.
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INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Dun & Bradstreet goes digital [ Part 1 ]
Dun & Bradstreet make a digital transformation and it's all on one Product Managers shoulders.
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.
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INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Netflix's BLM Collection [ Part 2 ]
Netflix pulls 120 of it's employees together after George Floyd's death to provide answers customers were seeking.
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.
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INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Netflix's BLM Collection [ Part 1 ]
Netflix pulls 120 of it's employees together after George Floyd's death to provide answers customers were seeking
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.
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INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Transparent Collective [ Part 2 ]
Rohini Pandhi, Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, faces a major choice when a blank check is presented from from an unlikely source. In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.***This show is a part of the Pod
INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Transparent Collective [ Part 1 ]
Rohini Pandhi, Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, faces a major choice when a blank check is presented from from an unlikely source.
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square and founder of Transparent Collective, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.
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Introducing: INDUSTRY 2020 Product mini-series
In celebration of the upcoming INDUSTRY Virtual product conference, we're bringing you 3 amazing stories from Rohini Pandhi - Product Lead at Square, Jon Bell - Senior Product Manager at Netflix, and Yardley Pohl - Former Product Manager at Dun and Bradstreet.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches,
Product Journeys: Waze
While carpooling isn't new, Waze Carpool is a fresh way to share the road and the cost of commuting. A cost-effective alternative to rideshare services, Carpool lets you choose to drive or ride with people already going your way. Use the Waze app to drive, and the Waze Carpool app to catch a ride.
Today we talk with Rapha Cohen about the development of Carpool.
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Product Journeys: Tesla
Tesla, Inc., formerly (2003–17) Tesla Motors, American electric-automobile manufacturer. It was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and was named after Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla.Tesla Motors was formed to develop an electric sports car. Eberhard was Tesla’s chief executive officer (CEO) and Tarpenning its chief financial officer (CFO). Funding for the company was obtained from a variety of sources, most notably PayPal cofounder Elon
Product Journeys: Veil
Veil is a near-future climate change techno thriller, but how does a high researched, science based fictional book like this come into existence? Today we follow Eliot Peper and through his process of building a physical product and releasing something that can't be updated with a hot fix pushed to production.
We walk through his writing, editing, rewriting process and the discipline it takes to 'make progress everyday.' We also explore his philosophy around releasing a book and how he knows whe
Product Journeys: Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo (shortened to Echo) is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which will respond when you say "Alexa". Users may change this wake word to "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". The features of the device include: voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, and playing audiobooks, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time inform
Product Journeys: Drip
When Rob Walling launched Drip, he was doing $7K in monthly recurring revenue. But he quickly realized that his revenue had already flat-lined and that he had a high customer churn problem. He was competing with behemoths like Mail Chimp and Marketo with a team of just 3 engineers.
Drip started as a simple opt-in pop-up with an autoresponder. It then evolved into an email service provider, to finally become a marketing automation platform. That’s when it hit real product-market fit and churn imm
Product Journeys: Tenor
Tenor is an online GIF search engine and database that was acquired by Google in 2018. Over the life of the company they instilled a culture in relentless pursuit of growth - forgoing even putting their company name on their office door. Today we talk with David McIntosh about how he built a product and company that now hosts over 300 Million monthly active users to use their pop culture and social information gif search engine.
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Product Journeys: Apple's iPhone (The Purple Project)
In 2003, Apple was working on new types of inputs for the Mac. The plan was to get rid of the mouse and keyboard, and the team began to experiment with multitouch — rotating and zooming on-screen with a few careful flicks of the finger. One of the first prototypes of a finger-controlled tablet was known as Model 035, a large white tablet that looked something like a clunky precursor to the iPad. But at the same time, the mobile phone race began to take over and Apple made an important decision t
Product Journeys: Flikshop
From Maximum Security Prison To CEO, Marcus Bullock, is now building Flikshop as a way for incarcerated individuals to stay connected to their families and loved ones. He knows first hand the impact a picture from the outside can make on those incarcerated. But this story is as much about our criminal justice system as it is about Marcus's journey.
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Product Journeys: Kairos
Facial recognition startup Kairos, founded by Brian Brackeen, was one of the only companies in it's space with a black CEO, and it turned out to be their secret weapon... until the Trump Administration came knocking and wanted to use their ability to more accurately recognize illegal immigrants and deport them. Brian refused, but his board revolted and sued him to remove him as CEO. This is the story of a founder who refused to compromise on his values.This episode is brought to you by:
Product Journeys: Hey!
Hey! a new email platform, many opinions...and it's creators, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson (known to the internet as DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails) and the Basecamp team, have even more.Hey! launched just a couple weeks ago to a flurry of controversy. From it's firm stance on tracking pixels (perceived as spy devices) to it's pre-launch fight with Apple over revenue splits, Hey! is probably the most exciting thing to happen to email since the launch of gmail over 16 years a
Product Journeys: Live from Tomorrow!
How did Matt Hooper build a company singing about Blockchain? Today we explore the product journey of Live from Tomorrow! a live show that's been running in New York City for the last two years and has recently been turned into a podcast as an epic musical comedy about innovation in tech and business.
There's really nothing like it out there. Recorded in the style of a cast album, the show seamlessly combines studio recordings with live performances and interviews. The five-episode, two-act inau
Product Journeys: Walker & Co
Walker & Company Brands, a startup making health and beauty products for people of color, was acquired by consumer giant Procter & Gamble in 2018.
The company was founded in2013 by Tristan Walker, who previously led business development for Foursquare, and who aimed to create products that would better serve the needs of people of color with coarse or curly hair. Walker & Co. started out with its Bevel shaving products for men, then launched Form, a collection of hair products for women.
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Michael Sacca on side projects, creative outlets and the beauty of constraints from Creative Elements
This episode originally aired on Jay Clouse's podcast Creative Elements.Rocketship.fm Host Michael Sacca is the VP of Product at Dribbble and cohost of Rocketship.fm. He started his career 15 years ago as a Product Designer, eventually founding a cutting-edge product agency that built applications for Scholastic, GE, Nike, Siemens, Kobe Bryant and more. In this episode we talk about building an agency, launching software products, working a 9-5 job, creative outlets, and the role that C
Product Journeys: Backstage Capital
Hamilton founded Backstage Capitol, a venture capital firm, in 2015, when she was homeless. The firm seeks to address funding disparities in the technology industry by investing in companies started by undervalued but high-potential entrepreneurs who are women, people of color, and/or LGBTQ. To date, Backstage Capital has raised more than $10 million and invested in more than 130 startup companies.
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Product Journeys: Go Together
Kimberly Moore, CEO and Co-Founder of Go Together, is an entrepreneur completely passionate about building one of the most exciting companies in the mobility space. Go Together, an early stage startup, is on a mission to get people where they need to go through their trusted networks and via any transportation option available. First starting with education and political engagement. Two industries ripe for disruption in the transportation space.
Go Together’s first product in the market is in 49
Diversity in Tech [Part 1]
Diversity can be a difficult issue to discuss, but the truth is the tech industry has a problem.
Even a brief look at the data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reveals huge racial disparities in the tech workforce compared to the private sector overall.
Tech companies and investors should be concerned: Evidence strongly suggests that a racially diverse tech sector could translate into stronger financial performance. A McKinsey report on diversity showed a correlation betw
Diversity in Tech [Part 2]
In Part Two of our look at Diversity in Tech we hear from how Stripe increased their percentage of underrepresented candidates in their internship program from 10% to 40% in one year. How Crowdfunder fixed their gender pay gap problem and how VC Arlan Hamilton is investing millions into underrepresented founders at Backstage Capital.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and
Product Journeys: Shift
Shift is an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Founded in 2014, Shift is an American company based in San Francisco’s Mission District. As of 2019, the company offers its services in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and San Diego, California as well as Portland, Oregon.The leadership team includes Co-CEOs George Arison and Toby Russell, also co-founders of Taxi Magic; Sean Foy chief operating officer; and Christian Ohler chief technology officer.Shif
Product Journeys: PayPal
PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Confinity, a company that developed security software for handheld devices. In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online banking company founded by Elon Musk.After watching PayPal become the premier choice of Internet auction shoppers, online marketplace giant eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion in October 2002, then in 2015 PayPal was spun off into an independent company, but it
Product Journeys: Earth Class Mail
Earth Class Mail was founded over 16 years ago with the ambitious mission of “taking over the post office of the world." They were one of the first startups to launch on national television with their own slickly produced 8 part TV series focused on their CEO Ron Wieners fund-raising journey. But the journey hasn't always been smooth, they company was acquired in 2014 through a Bankruptcy resolution and then again in 2016. Today the product and team appear stronger than ever, publicly reporting
Product Journeys: Instagram
The story of Instagram’s explosive rise reads like a Silicon Valley fairy tale, with the company gaining staggering momentum within a few short months. The app itself took only eight weeks to develop before launching on the iPhone, and within a year and a half Facebook had acquired the company for $1 billion in cash and stock. But like all good tales, the process involved many twists and turns, failures and successes, conflicts and synergies, and a dose of fortuitous happenstance. Want
Product Journeys: Asana
Founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-Google-and-Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook. They took their internal Facebook tool and commercialized it, launching publically in 2011. Since they, they've been trying to simplify the "work about work in Moskovitz's own words.
Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. Follow along as Anna Marie Cli
Product Journeys: Square
Square was founded to solve the pain point of a well known glass blower in San Francisco who lost a sale because he couldn't accept a credit card transaction. The prototype was built in a month, and Jack raised $600 just by charging VC's to hear his pitch. Today we walk you through the Product Journey that is Square with their Hardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, who left Apple to join the team in 2011.
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Product Failures: MoviePass
The stock was tanking, and the company kept hemorrhaging cash. Investors sued. Some users even filed a suit. It was a losing battle from the start but what really went wrong at the beloved startup MoviePass. Today we tell the story of MoviePass's rise and ultimate fall on the season finale of Rocketship.fm's Product Failures.
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Product Failures: It's not you, it's your team
Today we discuss another type of failure that is all too common, especially in young companies - team failure. We talk with Latif Nanji, the founder and CEO of Roadmonk, about his first startup Pokerspace.com and the many mistakes they made trying to move in the same direction as a team, but often failing miserably.
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Product Failures: Acquisitions
The Exit. Liquidity. Acquihire. Merger. No matter the name, it’s a milestone in any entrepreneurs life.
Today we take a look at the real stories behind acquisitions, when the outcome isn’t quite what you read about in Techcrunch with stories from Andy Sparks, former COO of Mattermark, Courtland Alves VP of Product & Mentorship at Bloc and Morris Wheeler, DrummondRoad Capital founder and principal.
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Product Failures: Path
Path was created in 2010 by former Facebook employee Dave Morin as a sort of anti-Facebook. It stood out with one good idea: limits for friends. You couldn’t add more than 50 people to your network when it first launched.As Facebook ballooned in size and our friend lists grew with it, Path sought to be the place where you chatted with only the people you were closest to. And for a little while, the idea seemed to work. Quickly, Google reportedly tried to gobble it up. By mid-2013, Morin
Product Failures: Blockbuster
In 2000, Reed Hastings, the founder of a fledgling company called Netflix, flew to Dallas to propose a partnership to Blockbuster CEO John Antioco and his team. The idea was that Netflix would run Blockbuster’s brand online and Antioco’s firm would promote Netflix in its stores. Hastings got laughed out of the room.
Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 and Netflix is now a $28 billion dollar company, about ten times what Blockbuster was worth. So what happened that led Blockbuster's demise? We expl
Product Failures: Audible
From creating unsafe driving conditions to aggravating spouses across the globe, todays failure is a lesson in what happens when your team lacks diversity, especially of lived experiences that help build empathy for your customers. Today, we take you behind the scenes of Audibles iOS7 redesign that overhauled the design of the app, but forgot to take several key use-cases into consideration.BIG NEWSWe've officially launched the Rocketship Premium Podcast feed! Join today for $5/month or
Product Failures: American Airlines
On September 11, 2001 two American Airlines airplanes were hijacked. One was flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center and the other crashed into a field on it's way to the White House killing everyone onboard. As people scrambled to find out what happened to their loved ones, the American Airlines automated phone systems failed as they refused to included what is known as the Mayday codes.
Today we talk with Blade Kotelly, who built the automated phone system for several Airlines, in
Product Failures: The Psychology of Failure with Jerry Colonna
We've been talking a lot about well known product failures, but at this point in the series, we're going to take a little pause. Today, we remember that there are very real people behind these failures. These people have feelings and the failures they’ve experienced, they’ve probably affected them in different ways.
Today we sit down with Jerry Colonna. Jerry is an American venture capitalist and professional coach who played a prominent part in the early development of Silicon Valley. He is kno
Product Failures: Color
Raising $41 million dollars before launch, Color should have been an instant hit, but instead met a swift demise. When it launched, the application had around 1 million downloads. By September 2011, the service had a little under 100,000 active users. Founded by serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen and successful operator, Peter Pham, Color had one of the best teams in the business.
However, in the weeks following Color's initial launch, controversy surrounded the startup's $41 million funding and mi
Product Failures: Google+
Google+ was an ambitious project to take down the social networking giant Facebook, unfortunately we all know how it ended. What went wrong along the way that prevented a company like Google, with seemingly endless resources and internet reach, fail to create a product users actually wanted to use?
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Product Failures: eBay
In the early 2000's eBay was in direct competition with Amazon but they had very different methodologies when approaching the market. Today we dive into some of the mistakes eBay made in this time where they caught themselves focusing on the wrong metrics and ultimately the wrong side of the market. These mistakes ultimately led to the huge differences in the trajectory of where these companies are today. We talk with Ben Foster, the CPO at GoCanvas, about his time at eBay from 2001-2005 where h
Product Failures: TurboTax
It was November of 2014 and Brian Crofts was preparing for a meeting with two senior executives at Intuit. One was his boss, CeCe Morken, who ran Intuit’s Professional Tax (ProTax) business line, the $422 million business that sold tax preparation software to professional accountants. The other was Sasan Goodarzi, who ran Intuit’s $1.8 billion TurboTax business (TurboTax) that sold software to consumers.
Crofts had devoted three years to a new product-- TurboTax PersonalPro -- that was a steppi
Product Failures: Webvan
Business schools around the nation study Webvan’s overly ambitious rush to the biggest IPO to date in Silicon Valley, as a prime example of what to avoid doing while scaling.While it’s true that the impatience to go public helped steer Webvan off a cliff, the once darling company made three critical, but often overlooked mistakes when it came to revolutionizing home grocery deliveries. We'll talk with Ben Foster about his experience leading product teams at Webvan.BIG NEWSWe've official
Product Failures: Skeletons in Our Closet
Everyone fails at some point in their career. Small failures, big failures. We're going to cover them all on this season of Rocketship. Today Michael Sacca and Mike Belsito are going to discuss some of their own product failures - from eFunneral, to Crew to Brandisty they've learned a lot from these mistakes.
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400 Episodes 😱
Right before we kick off Season 8 of Rocketship, we wanted to go back and look at some of our favorite episodes of the past 6 years. From relationships to product love, the history of the baseball cap to the first ever e-commerce website on the internet today we have something for in this episode.
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The implications of the surveillance economy
With companies such as Google and Facebook we are trading our data in exchange for the benefits of their product, is the solution to stop giving big companies our information, or is it about recognizing how companies are using our data and making a conscience decision of what information we give away? We tackle these questions and more on this week's episode.
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The Incredible Evolution of Big Data
In the second part of our series on data we talk about the origins of Hadoop, the technology that formed the very foundation of what we know as “big data”. The emergence of Hadoop represents perhaps the single most important development in our lifetimes for storing, processing, and retrieving big data. And not only is this technology behind just about everything you touch on the web, it’s now even being used in the medical field to save lives.
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Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)
Today we talk with Ben Foster the Chief Product Officer at GoCanvas and former product manager at Ebay. Ben is a wealth of Product knowledge and experience and today we discuss the topic of A/B testing and how he's evolved his focus to be vision driven so that he doesn't miss the big opportunities to solve customer problems. This was a hard learned lesson and we hear about his experience A/B testing features with moderate success and what caused him to shift if focus.
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The (Abbreviated) History of Product Management
Today we explore the history of the Product Manager from it's early ideation by Neil McElroy to it's growth at Hewlett-Packard thru it's maturation at Microsoft and into today. We talk with former Microsoft Project Manager, Ellen Chisa, Former Microsoft Engineer (and 55th hire), Mark Zbikowski and Matt LeMay, the Author of Product Management in Practice, about this evolution over the past 80 years.
For Neil McElroy the Brand Men were essentially his manifesto on what would become a product mana
Blind Spots
We all think we know everything there is to know about our customers, but data shows that we often know a surprising little amount about who our customers really are. We tend to get complacent and continue building for the personas that we think use our product, but is there a better way?
We talk with Laura Klein, author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products, about methods for better user research practices we can all start doing today.
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Twitter Confessionals
Love isn’t rational. It doesn’t always make sense. But when love is in the air, nothing can come between you and a public tweet.
Today we talk to people who’ve professed their love, publicly, for products they love. We discuss why they love the products they love, and what about these companies and brands gets them so excited.
We dove into tech brands like Slack and Intercom as well as roll-on deodorant brand Phresh and personal fashion brand Stitch Fix.
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The Brilliance of WeTransfers Brand
What would it look like if your company built a boat? Would your customers know what to expect?Launching your first product is punishingly hard. Getting to the second one often even more so, as everything will change: Distribution, brand, product strategy, organization and psychology. Learn about the challenges of growing your product family and how to overcome them. Georg Petschnigg, Chief Innovation Officer from WeTransfer, and co-founder of FiftyThree, the company behind the popular
Overcoming Cognitive Bias
You've probably made a bad call at some point in your career, that's ok. Today we'll talk about ways to prevent it moving forward and how to recognize and avoid the many belief, behavioral, and social biases, which flaw much human decision making, in your role as product manager. Confirmation bias, authority bias, reputation risk, survival bias and sunk-cost fallacy are rife in organizational decision making and during customer and product validation. Today we will include examples and practical
The Trick That Supercharged Superhuman's Growth
Often times, finding true product-market-fit can be the most difficult part of the process in launching a new product. In this talk, Rahul shares his predictable and repeatable process for finding and optimizing product-market-fit for SaaS products.
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Powerful Product Positioning
Positioning can make or break a new product, yet it rarely gets the attention it deserves. On todays episode, April Dunford the CEO at Ambient Strategy, outlines a product positioning process that will shine a spotlight on your product’s best features. We will also give re-positioning examples and show the impact on the overall business that resulted from that shift in context.
You can check out April's book, Obviously Awesome, to dive deeper.
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How Sendlane Created Huge Growth Through User-Centered Design
Marketing automation platform, Sendlane, hit a plateau in both revenue and ideas until they tried using user-centered design to unlock growth. The solution was a surprising effective one that helped to set their roadmap moving forward.
Today we talk with Eric Weiss about his experience implementing user-centered design in practice and how it changed the trajectory of the business.
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What type of Product Manager are you?
Catherine Ulrich, a Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, invests in a broad range of enterprise and consumer start-ups. She has a deep passion for and expertise in health and wellness, AI, and behavior change. Prior to joining FirstMark, she was the Chief Product Officer at Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) where she was responsible for product strategy and execution across all of Shutterstock’s offerings and brands including the company’s move into machine learning/computer vision and creative editi
How Airbnb approaches SEO
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, comes in many forms. There’s the classic blog post optimization where one would write a piece of content and try to get the right combination of usefulness, keywords, and length to see if Google will rank it high enough to get discovered. but that’s not what Tommy Griffith was doing at Airbnb when he led their SEO team from 2013 - 2017.
Today, we take you behind the scenes of the SEO team at Airbnb. How did they approach such a massive problem? What worked? Wh
The Best Product Advice We've Ever Received....
Over the past 6 years we've had some amazing conversations with product people and entrepreneurs. Today we're going to bring you some of our favorite bits of product knowledge to help you with everything from diversity, recruiting, tough product decisions, understanding business goals and more.You'll hear from some of our favorite guests like former Facebook PM Alison Go, Jobs to be Done architect Bob Moesta, VP of Product & Strategy at Box Jeetu Patel and even Adii Pienaar.BIG NEWS
Product Vision
We explore what it really means to be a product-driven company. More than anything, it's an exercise in restraint. Don't just build because you can, or because technology allows, but because you're advancing a larger vision. Laura Roeder of Edgar shares just what that means for their company, and how it's helped them follow a guiding light to success.
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Product-Led Growth
We are in the middle of a massive shift in the way people use and buy software.
It’s been well over a decade since Salesforce brought software to the cloud. Apple put digital experiences in people’s pockets back in 2009 with the first iPhone. Blake talks about how we’re in “The End User Era” -- which is a new era that we’re now living in. We may be using applications for business purposes, but even those applications are adopted not because of some procurement manager signing a contract, but ado
Perfecting Product Marketing
Product Marketing. The subtle art of describing your product in a way that excites everyone around you. This isn’t just for entrepreneurs pitching investors, this is for product managers and product leaders to inspire their teams to push themselves to build the best possible solution.
We walk through examples from Figure One, Facebook and Sono’s with us as we attempt to break down what makes a powerful product description and what are the elements you need to improve yours.
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Building Products People Want
Jobs to be done will change the way you think about product. It will change the way you approach user personas and influence your product decision process. It is one of the most important developments in product thinking in our time, so today we're going to dive right in.
In this episode we talk with Jeetu Patel of Box, Bob Moesta co-creator of the Jobs to be done framework, Benedikt Lehnert of Wunderlist (now Microsoft) and Eric White.
The theory of jobs to be done was developed in part as a co
Death of a Product Feature
Daria Axelrod Marmer, a Product Lead at Hubspot wrote about Killing it by Killing Features and we explore that more today. It's never fun to sunset a feature we worked so hard to bring to life, but sometimes growth comes from creating focus and removing unused features to either build something new or take a new approach to solve the problem they were meant to solve.
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Shape Up with Ryan Singer of Basecamp
Ryan Singer and the Basecamp team have developed their own methodology for product planning. For one, they don't do waterfall or agile or scrum. For two, they don’t line walls with Post-it notes. For three, they don’t do daily stand ups, design sprints, development sprints, or anything remotely tied to a metaphor that includes being tired and worn out at the end. No backlogs, no Kanban, no velocity tracking, none of that.
What they do instead is six week product builds followed by two weeks of c
Mental Models for Product Leaders
Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumulated over time by an individual and used to make faster and better decisions. Today to explore Mental Models for Product Leadership and how to use them with your team every day.This episode is also brought to you by Airtable, which is the all-in-one platform for product managers. Rocketship listeners can receive $50 in credit by signing up at Airtable.com/rocketship.This episode is also b
Achieving Deep Work
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill, because of our modern times, that is becoming increasingly more difficult to achieve. Today we outline some helpful practices for staying focused and achieving deeper concentration on the work that matters.
This episode is also brought to you by Airtable, which is the all-in-one platform for product managers. Rocketship listeners can receive $50 in credit by signing up at Airtable.com/rocketship.
In Bezos we trust
Today we bring you the story of eBay and Amazon in the early 2000s, and how their fierce competition for market share came down to two very different product approaches. There's a winner, a loser and lots of product lessons in-between. We'll also share something that Jeff Bezos does to this day to ensure the customer is always represented in product meetings.
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Mental Models for Product Managers
A mental model is any concept that helps explain, analyze, or navigate the world. As product managers, our mental models drive our decision-making, the way we communicate and collaborate with others, and how we prioritize.Today we explore some essential mental models for Product Managers. From opportunity cost to confirmation bias to Semmelweis reflex and even key failure. There are countless mental models that are essential for Product Managers to understand.This episode is brought to
Charlie Munger's Mental Models
Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see. Mental models are how we simplify complexity, why we consider some things more relevant than others, and how we reason.
A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks.
Data Driven Product Development
Data is powerful because it is concrete. For many entrepreneurs and product people, empirical data can trump everything else – and it’s been an important tool in helping startups solve problems in new and innovative ways.In today's episode we talk with Richard White, the CEO of UserVoice, and what it means to be "data-informed" and how to better use data inside your organization.This episode is also brought to you by Airtable, which is the all-in-one platform for product managers. Rocke
Build vs Buy
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of where of those projects where you just go, I wish we’d seen how this would end at the beginning of the project? Often times this is the result of a build vs buy decision gone wrong. Today we discuss recognizing what isn’t your core competency. This can be difficult to admit for organizations, but getting this right could save you a ton of time, money and headache.Balancing your company’s immediate needs with its long-term growth is both para
The History of Product Management
Today we explore the history of the Product Manager from it's early ideation by Neil McElroy to it's growth at Hewlett-Packard thru it's maturation at Microsoft and into today. We talk with former Microsoft Project Manager, Ellen Chisa, Former Microsoft Engineer (and 55th hire), Mark Zbikowski and Matt LeMay, the Author of Product Management in Practice, about this evolution over the past 80 years.
For Neil McElroy the Brand Men were essentially his manifesto on what would become a product manag
Storytelling for Product People with Connie Kwan
Connie Kwan walks us through her philosophy on storytelling for Product people, teaches us the essential elements of product storytelling and gives relatable use cases.
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How Adobe transformed itself into a $135 billion dollar SASS company
Adobe's transition into a SASS company wasn't easy. It took two painful years of losses to transition their entire business from one-time upfront pricing to a monthly subscription. For a publically traded company, this could have been the death of them. But long-term thinking and well-executed plan set them up for success into the foreseeable future.This episode is also brought to you by Airtable, which is the all-in-one platform for product managers. Rocketship listeners can receive $5
PM to VC with Hunter Walk
Today we got a chance to sit down with Hunter Walk and discuss his career, what he looks for in founders and products that he’s investing in and, perhaps the most interesting, how he analysis someone’s career path when looking to invest in them… and it’s not exactly what you would expect.
Hunter Walk is a founder and partner at Homebrew. He also has extensive experience in product development and played a key role in making YouTube one of the internet's largest websites.
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Creating Loyal Customers with Dheerja Kaur of theSkimm
What’s the best kind of customer? A loyal customer.
Today with breakdown how theSkimm has built and maintained am excited audience of dedicated fans. Dheerja Kaur is the Chief Product Officer at theSkimm and walks us through how they keep their audience of largely female millennials (and Belsito) and the challenges of having a passionate audience scrutinizing your every decision.
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How to tell meaningful product stories
You may be tired of writing product stories and pitching product ideas that fall flat. Here we break down how to tell compelling product stories by understanding the basic of storytelling itself.
Jack and beanstalk may not be part of your everyday standups, but its the perfect way to breakdown the essential elements of a story. From screenwriter Michael Jamin to Product Manager and former Technical Director at Pixar, Josh Anon, we show you how you can use basic story writing techniques to better
Making Time
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings! or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why? In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you cou
Product People vs Product Leaders
Today, we’re going to dive into the concept of Product Leadership, and specifically the differences between Product People and Product Leaders. We'll go over proven methods to move up inside of an organization and common pitfalls to watch out for once you've been given the opportunity. Here to discuss with us is Rich Mironov. Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and agile development organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO to addr
Interview: Ash Maurya of Lean Canvas on Scaling Lean
Today we talk with Ash Maurya, the creator of the Lean Canvas and most recently the author of Scaling Lean. His posts and advice have been featured in Inc., Forbes, and Fortune and we're incredibly excited to share his insights with you on scaling through the lean methodology.
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The Downsides of Data
On today's show we talk with Clive Thompson, the author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World." We discuss why Coders were such a focus for him, and given all the recent news about Facebook and our personal data, it wasn't hard to figure out why he has such an intense focus on them. Data and surveillance are one of the biggest issues of our time. Product teams, product leaders, coders, designers, data scientists - these are the people that can help fix it.
Blockland: Moving Forward (Season Finale)
Well, we’ve taken quite a trip these past few weeks, haven’t we? This whole Blockland journey took us to quite a few places. Starting outside of Cleveland, in places like Miami, Puerto Rico and Las Vegas. Then into the boardrooms of Cleveland’s civic elite and to the Convention Center where Blockland’s Solutions conference took shape. Then the luxury car dealership where the architect of this whole thing makes himself at home. But, where does this journey take us all next? Not just for the lis
Blockland: Finding Bernie Moreno
As we drive along this nondescript suburban street -- dotted with your standard fare of KFC’s and Pizza Hut’s and CVS Pharmacies, it seems like most other main suburban neighborhood thoroughfares here in Northeast Ohio. But as we pull in to the Mercedez Benz of North Olmstead dealership, I wonder to myself if everybody else knows that there’s something a little special to this place. I don’t mean the shiny glass structure itself or the ambient waterfall that cascades inside. That’s prob
Blockland: Naysayers
Today we’re going to let the skeptics speak. Today we’re going to hear from people who are doubting the initiative. People who have questions. People who may not be buying into all that Blockland has to sell.
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Blockland: The Blockland Conference
As we're sitting here taking in the first ever Blockland Solutions conference, it’s pretty wild to see what’s unfolding. To many, it might not be that mind-blowing. It really seems like… plenty of other professional conferences. It’s in a nice convention center. The coffee and snack stations scatter abound. There are panels… and main-stage speakers. And a mix of suit-and-tie types and hoodie-clad, beard-faced technologists wandering around.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate netw
Blockland: Blockchaining Cleveland, Ohio
In the first few episodes of the Blockland series, we learned a bit about what the Blockland initiative was all about, why it started and who started it, and even rewound a bit to learn a bit more about Blockchain in general… and its impact on businesses. But today, we dive into Blockland, the initiative. There are so many tentacles to this so… it’s best you just buckle up and get ready… to enter… Blockland.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, dis
Interview: Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Building an Encyclopedia on a Blockchain
Everpedia is the world's largest encyclopedia on the blockchain. It's decentralized, democratic, censorship-resistant and offers a financial incentive for those participating in creating and editing content. It also has a secret weapon. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joined the company in 2017, nearly 3 years after it's formation after spending much of his life pursuing a high-quality crowdsourced database of knowledge. Sanger said, "Everipedia is the encyclopedia of everything, wher
Blockland: A Brief History of Blockchain
Blockchain is a system in which a record of transactions that are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network.
It’s a database or public ledger that can be used in a whole multitude of ways. And along with this overview of what it is, it’s probably useful to have a brief primer on the history of blockchain.
Blockchain technology was first developed by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or people who develope
Blockland: Blockchain today
By now you’ve heard all the buzz, and criticism, of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.
The constant fluctuations of the Bitcoin market. One minute it’s going to the moon, the next it’s tanking and will never come back.
This isn’t a story all about Bitcoin, because as Bitcoin and it’s siblings Litecoin, Etherium and the thousands of other alt-coins that have come and gone over the years, the underlying technology, Blockchain, is becoming the real star of the show with Banks and Financial institutio
Blockland: Welcome to Blockland
Something is happening in Cleveland, Ohio. A movement, unlike anything it's seen before, has taken over the city. Cleveland’s top business leaders, civic leaders, politicians and lawmakers, people running educational institutions have all dedicated to making Cleveland the Blockchain Capital of the world. And this initiative, as strange as it may sound, is led by none other than a local car salesman, Bernie Moreno. On season six of Rocketship.fm, we're taking you behind the scenes of a m
Blockland: Season 7 Trailer
Something is happening in Cleveland, Ohio. A movement, unlike anything it's seen before, has taken over the city. Cleveland’s top business leaders, civic leaders, politicians and lawmakers, people running educational institutions have all dedicated to making Cleveland the Blockchain Capital of the world. And this initiative, as strange as it may sound, is led by none other than a local car salesman, Bernie Moreno. On season six of Rocketship.fm, we're taking you behind the scenes of a m
Building the right product team
One of the most import roles as a product owner is building the right product team. In part two of this two-part mini-series, we take a look at what high performing product managers and product leaders are doing inside of their organizations to manage and lead a high-performing product team. In this episode, we dive into the strategies that managers use to lead their teams successfully.
It's not easy and we're not all Steve Jobs (although most of us think we are from time to time) so what do hi
Interview: Jeetu Patel of Box on leadership and strategy in the new age of enterprise product
We welcome Jeetu Patel, the Chief Product Officer, and Chief Strategy officer at Box to the show today. He leads the company's overall product and platform strategy, driving Box's long-term roadmap and vision for cloud content management in the enterprise.
Have you ever wondered how companies like Box approach emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence? Well, today is the day you find out.
He also gives amazing advice on building effective product teams, the magical
Interview: Teresa Torres of Product Talk on Continuous Discovery
Teresa Torres helps digital product teams adopt continuous product discovery practices including a regular cadence of customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and assumption testing. She emphasizes strong critical thinking a strong connection between what the teams are learning in their research activities with the product decisions that they are making.
Mike Belsito interviews her today to discuss how teams can begin practicing continuous discovery, how to get buy-in from management and why the
Disruption vs Innovation
It seems like all we hear about today is disruption, disruption, disruption. Everybody is disrupting something -- from Transportation to Hospitality -- all anyone wants to do is blow everything up.
So what is the difference between Disruption and Innovation? Well, Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors.
Disruption and Innovation are often different sides of the same coin. Today we explore how companies are approaching innovation and disruption in the Healthcare industry
Why do you love the products you love?
Love isn’t rational. It doesn’t always make sense. But when love is in the air, nothing can come between you and a public tweet.
Today we talk to people who’ve professed their love, publicly, for products they love. We discuss why they love the products they love, and what about these companies and brands gets them so excited.
We dove into tech brands like Slack and Intercom as well as roll-on deodorant brand Phresh and personal fashion brand Stitch Fix.
Huge thanks to our guests today:
Lindsey
Storytelling for Product People
You may be tired of writing product stories and pitching product ideas that fall flat. Here we break down how to tell compelling product stories by understanding the basic of storytelling itself.
Jack and beanstalk may not be part of your everyday standups, but its the perfect way to breakdown the essential elements of a story. From screenwriter Michael Jamin to Product Manager and former Technical Director at Pixar, Josh Anon, we show you how you can use basic story writing techniques to bette
Meetings don't have to suck
We take a deep dive into how to prepare for and run better meetings, and some tricks to make sure that what was discussed at the meeting, actually gets done. We'll hear from Mamie Kanfer Stewart of Meeteor, Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Cameron Herold the author of Meetings Suck and Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and
A Job To Be Done: Building Products People Want
Jobs to be done will change the way you think about a product. It will change the way you approach user personas and influence your product decision process. It is one of the most important developments in product thinking in our time, so today we're going to dive right in.
In this episode we talk with Jeetu Patel of Box, Bob Moesta co-creator of the Jobs to be done framework, Benedikt Lehnert of Wunderlist (now Microsoft) and Eric White.
The theory of jobs to be done was developed in part as a
The Untold Story of Books.com [Part 2]
In the second and final episode of our look at Books.com, we discover what happens when Charlie Stack is faced with competition from Amazon.com and a multi-million dollar buy out offer on the table. We also learn more about what Charlie is up to currently and how the Books.com legacy has lived on.
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The Untold Story of Books.com [Part 1]
The year was 1992. The location… Cleveland, Ohio. The birthplace of online commerce. That’s right. Cleveland Ohio. Not Silicon Valley, Not San Francisco. Not even Seattle Washington. This is the story of Books.com, the internet’s very first e-commerce store, its founder, Charlie Stack, a lawyer-turned-self taught software developer — and what happened when they created internet history… and later… faced a new entrant in Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com.
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Interview: Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital on Diversity, Hustle and Playing to Win
We talked with Arlan Hamilton, theFounder & Managing Partner of Backstage Capital. Backstage Capital has invested more than $2M in 50+ companies led by underrepresented founders. Arlan is a venture capital fund manager, but she got her start publishing the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. Arlan is dedicated to minimizing funding dis
Interview: Vidya Dinamani on Conducting Effective Customer Interviews
Vidya Dinamani has a passion for coaching product leaders and teams. Vidya has over 18 years of experience specializing in business & technology strategy development and product design, development and management.
Vidya has held multiple executive roles at leading companies, including executive positions leading Innovation and Product Management at Mitchell International, Director of Customer Experience for TurboTax, Intuit. She also served as Director of Business Operations and Chief IT Archite
Interview: Seth Godin on Achieving Greatness
We talk with Seth Godin about his view of the 10,000 hour rule, his own concept behind achieving greatness, The Dip, and his personal journey to success.
After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promot
Interview: Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront on finding product market fit
Rachleff co-founded Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm, in 1995. The firm invested in companies including eBay, OpenTable, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber. Rachleff personally led investments in Blue Coat Systems, Equinix and Juniper Networks.In 2008 Rachleff co-founded Wealthfront, an automated investment service, with Dan Carroll. As of March 2018, Wealthfront had more than $10 billion of assets under management.Today we talk with Andy about finding product-market fit (a term he coi
Interview: Scott Harper of Dialexa on Transforming your Companies Product Practices
Scott is a serial entrepreneur who has launched multiple technology product companies. He is the winner of the Ernst & Young Emerging Technology Entrepreneurs Of The Year 2016, and in this episode, Scott is sharing his experience around transforming companies internal product production processes.
Dialexa is an internationally acclaimed technology and product development company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company helps organizations, government agencies, and businesses conceptualize, d
Rebroadcast: We F*cked Up: Stories about Product Mistakes
Mistakes. We all make them. We all learn from them.From a food delivery startup who's users couldn't find their menu, to Amazon's redesign of Audible and even an emergency support system on 9/11, today we bring you mistakes Product Mangers made, and how, in some cases, they fixed them.Stories from Melissa Perry, Alison Go Product Manger at Facebook and Blade Kotelly Leader of Experience Strategy at Sonos. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distr
Interview: Todd Olson of Pendo on the 5 key metrics you should paying attention to
Todd Olson is Founder and CEO of Pendo.io. Olson served as Vice President of Products at Rally Software Development Corp. where he lead the evolution of Rally's proven Agile ALM platform for enabling software and product-driven enterprises to deliver 50% faster to market. Todd talks with us today about the 5 metrics you should be paying attention to and the motivation behind founding Pendo. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and mon
Interview: Jackie Bavaro of Asana on Cracking the Product Management Interview
We talk to Jackie Bavaro about cracking the Product Manager interview, or any interview for that matter. Jackie has amazing tips from the hirers perspective on how you can make a big impact no matter what your situation is. Learn what experiences you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great Product Management resume and cover letter look like along with some essential do's and don'ts of interviews you won't want to miss.
Jackie Bavaro is currently the Head of PM at Asan
Interview: Claire Vo of Optimizely on Product Testing and Experimentation
This week to chat with Claire about Product Experimentation, how to advocate for it in your organization and how to ask the right questions to get your team thinking about what and how they should be testing.Claire is the VP of Product Management at Optimizely, the world’s leader in customer experience optimization. Previously, she was the CEO and co-founder of Experiment Engine which was acquired by Optimizely in 2017. Prior to launching Experiment Engine, Claire led product developmen
Sprint Week Bonus: Day 4 Retrospective with Michael Smart
In our final episode of this Sprint Week series, we follow along as the team tests their prototypes with real users. We caught up with Michael Smart after the full day of user testing to find out what they found and more about how they think about user testing, what they're looking for in terms of feedback, and what their next steps will be.
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Sprint Week: Day 4 "User Testing"
In our final episode of our Sprint Week Series we listen in as Michael Smart and the AJ&Smart team test their prototype with real users. Over the past week, they have ideated, lightening demoed, sketched and prototyped their way to this point in the project journey for Kevin Rose's Zero App. But, after all of this work, what will real users think? Find out on today's episode.
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Sprint Week Bonus: Day 3 Retrospective with Michael Smart
Go behind the scenes as we catch up with Michael Smart of AJ&Smart after their day of Prototyping Kevin Rose's fasting app, Zero. Michael talks with us about how they approach prototyping, what to look for in a testable prototype and what could go wrong tomorrow when they put this prototype in front of real users.
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Sprint Week: Day 3 "Prototyping"
Follow along as we bring you behind the scenes as AJ&Smart prototypes the next version of Zero, Keven Rose's fasting app, to test with real users in under 8 hours. There is no room for failure. The user tests are scheduled so a prototype must be completed.
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Sprint Week Bonus: Day 2 Retrospective with Michael Smart
In this bonus episode, you'll hear more from Michael Smart of AJ&Smart about how he and the team think or organize storyboarding sessions. All week they're working with the Zero App team to determine what their next 6 to 24 month roadmap could be.
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Sprint Week: Day 2 "Storyboarding"
Join us for day two of Zero apps design sprint with AJ&Smart.
Today is all about storyboarding. Listen as the team from AJ&Smart take the ideas generated on day one and start to solidify them. The goal is to sketch an actual UI showing how a user would move through this part of the story — where they click, what info they enter, what they think, etc. This is the step before prototyping and one of the most exciting days of the sprint process.
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Sprint Week Bonus: Day 1 Retrospective with Michael Smart
At the end of day 1, we caught up with Michael Smart, co-founder of AJ&Smart, to get his inside take on how the first day went. We learn more about how he thinks about Design Sprints and their process for ensuring everything stays on track each day.
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Sprint Week: Day 1 "Gathering Ideas"
In this episode, we drop a microphone into the first day of Zero, Kevin Rose's Intermittent fasting app, design sprint with agency AJ&Smart. The goal of the first day is to encourage everyone to share what they already know and develop a common understanding with the rest of the group. Everyone involved in a sprint has different perspectives and different information about the problem they're trying to solve. This is generally done through a series of ideation and sketching exercise
Sprint Week: Getting Ready to Sprint
Follow along as each day this week we take you behind the scenes of an entire design sprint for Kevin Rose's app Zero led by Design Agency AJ&Smart.
AJ&Smart is a design agency focused exclusively on helping companies innovate through the design sprint process and they let us drop our microphones into the room as they conducted a week-long Design Sprint with Mike Masur, the CEO of Zero.
If you haven't heard of a design sprint before, it's based on the book, Sprint, by Jake Knapp and John Zerats
Next week is Sprint Week!
Every day next week we will be going behind the scenes of a design sprint for the intermittent fasting app, Zero, which was founded by Kevin Rose. The design sprint is lead by AJ&Smart, the design agency focused exclusively on helping companies innovate through the design sprint process. You'll be behind the scenes as the team plans, iterates, and prototypes until finally getting their ideas in front of real users.
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Interview: Latif Nanji of Roadmunk
Latif Nanji is the co-founder and CEO of Roadmunk, the road mapping software that helps companies create and share their products strategy and roadmaps.
Roadmunk is a roadmapping enterprise SaaS platform serving over 75,000 product innovators including Amazon, NY Times, Nike, The Coca-Cola Company, Bloomberg, Adobe & Citibank.
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Chapter 10: Finale
In today's episode, we say farewell to Lee, Gonto, and Krish after checking in with the one last time on the progress of their launches.
Krish heads to Salt Lake City, Gonto gives us the initial feedback on their A/B test and Lee continues his journey into startup sales.
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Chapter 9: The Launch
This week we follow Lee as he launches leadproof.app and starts to face the tough reality that he's going to need to get on the phone in order to make more sales. He also sets some ambitious goals for new customer acquisition.We also catch up with Krish as Chargebee launches Revenue Story, a brand new app that helps customers answer the hard questions about their businesses. This is something Chargebee has been doing manually for many of their enterprise customers for the last 4 years,
Chapter 8: Pre-Launch
In today's episode, we follow Lee, Krish and Gonto as they finalize their pre-launch plans. We learn the name of Lee's two new products as he gets closer to launch, listen in on a planning session for the launch of Revenue Story and follow Gonto to an Auth0 executive offsite for planning their quarterly OKRs.
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Chapter 7: Relationships
On today's episode, we explore the important topic of relationships. We follow Krish, Gonto, and Lee and look beyond business for just one week to see how they balance family, friends, girlfriends and work/life balance while pushing for greatness, and what some might call the impossible.
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Chapter 6: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
In this episode, we hear from Lee Tengum about his first customer interview for his new project and new project directions. It may or may not send him spiraling in a new direction. We also catch up with him about the other side projects that he is supporting on an ongoing basis.
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Chapter 5: First Steps
In today's episode, we learn more about the projects that Krish CEO of Chargebee, Gonto VP of Growth at Auth0 and Lee of 7am.ca will pursue for the next 2 months. You'll hear about them directly from them and their team as they discuss and plan the initial phases of each project.
What will they get right and what will they get wrong? Find out as we follow along step by step to see what it's like to bring a new product idea to life.
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Chapter 4: Krish goes to Paris
In Chapter 4, we learn about the origins of Krish Subramanian, Co-founder and CEO of Chargebee's, love for travel and discovery.
This curiosity has manifested itself in a philosophy he takes into his company and product, Chargebee. We learn how Krish's first trip outside of India opened up his world in ways he would never have expected.
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Chapter 3: 5am in Cranbrook, BC
It's 5 am in Cranbrook, BC and Lee Tengum is already making his way into the office. The catch is, he'll be done by 10 am, free to use the rest of his time anyway he'd like to.
Lee runs a successful marketing agency, 7am.ca, which helps local Cranbrook small businesses achieve their marketing goals. But Lee doesn't stop there. In the next 30 days, he's building a who new app from start to finish. An app he's hoping will increase the revenues of the small businesses in Cranbrook, BC.
We'll foll
Chapter 2: 380 people take over a small town in Panama
We take you behind the scenes to Auth0's 2018 offsite where there 380 employees converge on a small town in Panama and take over the Westin hotel for three days of presentations, team bonding activities and deep product discussions.Listen in on impromptu jobs to be done discussions, cross-team discussions about how they can better communicate and how teams should be testing the features they're building and releasing.These discussions lead to a product breakthrough that will dictate the
Chapter 1: An engineer, a CEO and a VP of Growth walk into a bar...
In season 5 of Rocketship.fm we will be following the lives of three entrepreneurs and product people, going behind the scenes to the team off-sites, product conversations, executive dinners and customer interviews.
We'll be focused on the stories of Lee Tengum, a solo-entrepreneur, with a passion for helping small businesses. Martin "Gonto" Gontovnikas, the VP of Marketing and Growth at Auth0, with 380 employees, who is a global leader in Identity-as-a-Service, and Krish Subramanian the CEO of
Continuous Product Discovery
Teresa Torres helps digital product teams adopt continuous product discovery practices including a regular cadence of customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and assumption testing. She emphasizes strong critical thinking a strong connection between what the teams are learning in their research activities with the product decisions that they are making.Mike Belsito interviews her today to discuss how teams can begin practicing continuous discovery, how to get buy-in from management and
Interview: Eric Boduch of Pendo
Eric Boduch is the Chief Evangelist and co-founder of Pendo.io. Boduch was formerly the Vice President of Marketing.Pendo delivers a complete platform for product teams that helps companies create products that customers love. With Pendo, product teams can understand product usage, collect feedback, measure NPS, onboard users, and announce new features in app - all without requiring engineering resources. Founded in 2013 and backed by Meritech Capital, Spark Capital, and Battery Venture
Season 5 Trailer
In Season 5 of Rocketship.fm, we'll to be profiling three product people at various stages in their business.
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Jobs to be done: "The Full Moesta" Pt 3
We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017.
In part three we discuss what Mike Belsito learned from this interview and what they've changed because of it.
Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.
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Jobs to be done: "The Full Moesta" Pt 2
Part two of our JTBD Bonus content. We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017.
Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.
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Jobs to be done: "The Full Moesta"
We go behind the scenes as Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Framework completes a full interview with Matt Ragland of ConvertKit on why he attended INDUSTRY 2017.
Whether you’re interested in JTBD or you’re already conducting JTBD interviews, learning from one of the masters is one of the best ways to improve your technique.
Listen to part one of two of the completely uncut JTBD interview.
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Two Steps Forward, One Look Back: Season 4 Finale
In our Season 4 finale, we revisit some of our favorite stories from Audibles product redesign debacle to interviewing people who confessed their love for a product on Twitter. Season 4 was not short on stories, inspiration or insight.
We hear from Alison Go of Facebook, Blade Kotelly of Sonos, writer Michael Jamin, Josh Anon and more.
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Building a killer product team: How great managers lead their team to success
One of the most import roles as a product owner is building the right product team. In part two of this two-part mini-series, we take a look at what high performing product managers and product leaders are doing inside of their organizations to manage and lead a high-performing product team.
In this episode, we dive into the strategies that managers use to lead their teams successfully. It's not easy and we're not all Steve Jobs (although most of us think we are from time to time) so what do hig
Interview: Jeetu Patel of Box on leadership and strategy in the new age of enterprise product
We welcome Jeetu Patel, the Chief Product Officer, and Chief Strategy officer at Box to the show today. He leads the company's overall product and platform strategy, driving Box's long-term roadmap and vision for cloud content management in the enterprise.
Have you ever wondered how companies like Box approach emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence? Well, today is the day you find out.
He also gives amazing advice on building effective product teams, the magical
Building a killer product team: pipeline tips from high-performing managers
Have you ever wondered how VP's at Facebook, Directors at Nike or Product Managers at Asana approach hiring? We did too. So we hit the streets to find out.One of the most import roles as a product owner is building the right product team. In this two-part mini-series, we take a look at what high performing product managers and product leaders are doing inside of their organizations to hiring and lead a high-performing product team.In this episode, we dive into pipeline strategies and ho
Interview: Austin Bales of Facebook on Building and Managing Product Teams
Today we welcome Austin Bales, Director of Product Design at Facebook, to talk about leading product teams, building trust with your teammates andgives us poignant tips on how to interpret data through real product stories from Facebook.
In his career to-date, Austin has worked has worked for Do.com, Odopod, and Carnegie Mellon.
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Interview: Laird Hamilton on Big Risks and Big Rewards
Today on the show we welcome the infamous big wave surfer, Laird Hamilton. We talk to Laird about his journey to greatness, the struggles along the way and what it’s like to take huge risks, for huge rewards.
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Interview: Blair Reeves of SAS on Enterprise Product Management
We welcome Blair Reeves to the show to discuss Enterprise Product Management tips and techniques from over 15 years working in product. Blair Reeves is a Principal Product Manager at SAS Software, and has previously held senior product and leadership roles at Demandware (now a Salesforce company) and IBM. He speaks, writes, and consults on product management in enterprise software, remote workforces, and other topics. Follow him on Twitter at @BlairReeves.***This show is a part of the P
Mastering Jobs To Be Done Interviews: The Results
In part three of our mini-series on Jobs To Be Done we dive into the results of the interviews. What did Mike ands Paul end up changing as a result and did they learn about their product?
We turn the mic on them to learn what impact Jobs To Be Done had on their planning of Industry 2018 and the most surprising things they learned from the interviews.
Adding Jobs to be Done to your bag of tricks gives you a leg up in the product world. We breakdown Bob Moesta’s exclusive interviews with actual cu
Interview: Alison Go of Facebook on product mistakes and the disciplines that make up strong product teams
Alison Go is a season Product Manager currently working at Facebook and formerly of Amazon where she worked on Audible.
Alison shares with us the recipe for a perfect product team. What disciples do you need to bring together as the product leader to create a powerhouse product team? Alison shares with us how teams are structured at Facebook, one of the most product-driven organizations today.
She also shares with us some mistakes she’s made (as we all do) as a product manager and how she quickl
Mastering Jobs To Be Done Interviews: The Interview
Part two of our mini-series on Jobs To Be Done today. We welcome back Bob Moesta who spent hours with us recording real interviews with Industry attendees and unpacking the conversations to answer the question - what Job does Industry serve for it’s attendees.
Today, we get to hear one of those interviews as Bob shows us some of the essential techniques of Jobs To Be Done interviews.
Adding Jobs to be Done to your bag of tricks gives you a leg up in the product world. We breakdown Bob Moesta’s
Interview: Melissa Perri of Product Institute on Managing Up and other Essentials Strategies for PMs
Melissa Perri is the CEO of Produx Labs and the creator of the online product management school ProductInstitute.com. Her mission is to help make Product Managers and their organizations awesome.She talked to us today about how she manages both the CEO relationship and her relationships with the rest of the team to create clear communication across all disciplines, an essential skill for product managers.She also shares lessons she’s learned as a PM consultant from working with companie
Interview: Brent Tworetzky of The Knot on The Product Manager Superpower User Science
Brent Tworetzky is the Executive Vice President at the XO Group (The Know, The Bump) where he leads XO Group's 50 person product group (product mgmt, design, user research).
Today we talk with Brent about User Science. User Science includes the vast fields of User Research and Analytics. Product User Research encompasses a range of tools to directly learn from users: hands off observation, direct inquiry, putting products in users hands, and the many forms in between. Product Analytics ranges fr
Mastering Jobs To Be Done Interviews: The Preparation
There is no substitute for the real thing. Today on the show we welcome back Bob Moesta who spent hours with us recording real interviews with Industry attendees and unpacking the conversations to answer the question - what Job does Product Collective's Industry do for it’s attendees.
Adding Jobs To Be Done to your bag of tricks gives you a leg up in the product world. We breakdown Bob Moesta’s exclusive interviews with actual customers of Industry conference. The best way to learn is by unpacki
Interview: Dan Olsen on The Lean Product Playbook
Dan Olsen is an entrepreneur, consultant, author, speaker, and expert in product management and Lean Startup. At Olsen Solutions, he works with CEOs and product leaders to help them build great products and strong product teams, often as interim VP of Product.Dan has worked with a range of businesses, from small, early-stage startups to large public companies, on a wide variety of web and mobile products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Microsoft, YouSendIt (now HighTail), Epocrates,
Interview: Noah Kagan of Sumo on product mistakes and playing the long game
Today we talk with Noah Kagan, the founder and CEO of Sumo. Noah has a long a long career working in startups and he shares some of his mistakes, and how he quickly turned things around.
In late 2005, Kagan joined Facebook as employee #30 where he served as product manager for eight months. After being fired from Facebook, he then joined Mint as the director of marketing. At Mint, Kagan developed the initial marketing strategy for the launch of the website. Noah was with Mint.com for 10 months
Disruption vs Innovation
It seems like all we hear about today is disruption, disruption, disruption. Everybody is disrupting something -- from Transportation to Hospitality -- all anyone wants to do is blow everything up.
So what is the difference between Disruption and Innovation? Well, Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors.
Disruption and Innovation are often different sides of the same coin. Today we explore how companies are approaching innovation and disruption in the Healthcare industry
Persona Alchemy: What we learned bringing user personas to life
A user persona is a fictional representation of your ideal customer. Today, we take two of those fictional representations and bring them to life.
Mike Belsito has ventured out to find several real-life personas, interview them and bring you what we've found. How accurate are our personas? What are we often missing from them that would help us build better products?
A persona typically has a name, a picture, relevant characteristics such as age or income group, behavioral traits, common tasks,
Interview: Oli Gardner of Unbounce on Product Awareness Month
Oli Gardner has dedicated this Janurary to writing 30 articles in 30 days, all about Product, Product Marketing and Unbounce. We caught with him to see how this all got started, what he was hoping to get out of it and what's next.
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How to tell compelling product stories
You may be tired of writing product stories and pitching product ideas that fall flat. Here we break down how to tell compelling product stories by understanding the basic of storytelling itself.
Jack and beanstalk may not be part of your everyday standups, but its the perfect way to breakdown the essential elements of a story. From screenwriter Michael Jamin to Product Manager and former Technical Director at Pixar, Josh Anon, we show you how you can use basic story writing techniques to bette
Interview: Dennis Crowley of Foursquare on Startups, Achieving Greatness and the Early Days of Foursquare
We sat down with Dennis Crowley of Foursquare to talk about the early days of Foursquare, what really happened after their historic SXSW launch and the sacrifices it takes to achieve greatness.
In 2003, Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student Alex Rainert while attending New York University. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005. After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai co-founded Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare, known for its location intel
Interview: Sam Goertler of Kickstarter on Leading Product Teams, Navigating Redesigns and Building Teams from Scratch
Sam Goertler has led product teams at Yammer, Asana and now Kickstarter. She talks with us about what she's learned leading teams through product redesigns and new platforms.
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Product Poetry: The secret to perfect product descriptions
Product Poetry. The subtle art of describing your product in a way that excites everyone around you. This isn’t just for entrepreneurs pitching investors, this is for product managers and product leaders to inspire their teams to push themselves to build the best possible solution.
Walk through examples from Figure One, Facebook and Sono’s with us as we attempt to break down what makes a powerful product description and what are the elements you need to improve yours.
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Interview: Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital on Diversity, Hustle and Playing to Win
We talked with Arlan Hamilton, theFounder & Managing Partner of Backstage Capital. Backstage Capital has invested more than $2M in 50+ companies led by underrepresented founders. Arlan is a venture capital fund manager, but she got her start publishing the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. Arlan is dedicated to minimizing funding dis
Twitter Product Confessions: Why do you love the products you love?
Love isn’t rational. It doesn’t always make sense. But when love is in the air, nothing can come between you and a public tweet.
Today we talk to people who’ve professed their love, publicly, for products they love. We discuss why they love the products they love, and what about these companies and brands gets them so excited.
We dove into tech brands like Slack and Intercom as well as roll on deodorant brand Phresh and personal fashion brand Stitch Fix.
Huge thanks to our guests today:
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Interview: Blade Kotelly of Sonos on Design Thinking and Product Poetry
Blade Kotelly is a senior lecturer at MIT and the leader of the advanced concepts lab at Sonos. We talk with Blade about how he defines the problem he solves at Sonos, and how to articulate that at an emotion level using design thinking. At Sonos he is driving the process to determine what experiences Sonos can and should build next. Researching trends in the technology landscape, customer behavior, music creators, and Sonos partners, and creating and testing advanced concepts.At MIT he
We F*cked Up: Stories about Product Mistakes
Mistakes. We all make them. We all learn from them.
From a food delivery startup who's users couldn't find their menu, to Amazon's redesign of Audible and even an emergency support system on 9/11, today we bring you mistakes Product Mangers made, and how, in some cases, they fixed them.
Stories from Melissa Perry, Alison Go Product Manger at Facebook and Blade Kotelly Leader of Experience Strategy at Sonos.
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Interview: Seth Godin on Achieving Greatness
We talk with Seth Godin about his view of the 10,000 hour rule, his own concept behind achieving greatness, The Dip, and his personal journey to success.
After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promo
Interview: Ty Ahmad-Taylor of Facebook on lessons from the VP of Product-Marketing at Facebook
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the VP of Product Marketing at Facebook. Ty has worked in product for over 20 years and has two acquisitions under his belt. At THX, he led the media and consumer-electronics company into new sectors. Prior to that, he held roles including vp of Smart TV services at Samsung, founder and CEO of FanFeedr and Senior VP of product development and strategy at Viacom.
Ty talks with us about leading large product teams, helping individuals growth under his leadership and how his entr
A Job To Be Done: Building Products People Want
Jobs to be done will change the way you think about product. It will change the way you approach user personas and influence your product decision process. It is one of the most important developments in product thinking in our time, so today we're going to dive right in.
In this episode we talk with Jeetu Patel of Box, Bob Moesta co-creator of the Jobs to be done framework, Benedikt Lehnert of Wunderlist (now Microsoft) and Eric White.
The theory of jobs to be done was developed in part as a co
Interview: Ellen Chisa on Product Management Lessons from Microsoft
Ellen Chisa, a former Product Manager at Microsoft and current CEO of a stealth product focused startup, talks to us about the history of product management, how she learned about the role at Microsoft and what lessons product managers should take away today.
Ellen is one of the few individuals who has worked in product her entire career. It's a unique perspective as most product managers have generally held other positions within an organization. This led Ellen to research the history of Produ
Interview: Everette Taylor of GrowthHackers on going from homeless to Forbes 30 under 30
Marketing executive and serial entrepreneur, Everette Taylor, talks to us about being homeless in high school to becoming one of the most sought after marketing minds in todays tech world.
When it comes to marketing, Everette Taylor knows his stuff. The Los Angeles-based entrepreneur is the founder and CEO of PopSocial, co-founder of marketing community GrowthHackers, and the Chief Marketing Officer for the transportation startup Skurt.
His journey wasn’t always easy. At 17, Taylor, he was force
The (Abbreviated) History of Product Management
Today we explore the history of the Product Manager from it's early ideation by Neil McElroy to it's growth at Hewlett-Packard thru it's maturation at Microsoft and into today. We talk with former Microsoft Project Manager, Ellen Chisa, Former Microsoft Engineer (and 55th hire), Mark Zbikowski and Matt LeMay, the Author of Product Management in Practice, about this evolution over the past 80 years.
For Neil McElroy the Brand Men were essentially his manifesto on what would become a product mana
Interview: Ash Maurya of Lean Canvas on Scaling Lean
Today we talk with Ash Maurya, the creator of the Lean Canvas and most recently the author of Scaling Lean.
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Productivity: Meetings Suck
In our final episode of this productivity series we take a deep dive into how to prepare for and run better meetings, and some tricks to make sure that what was discussed at the meeting, actually gets done.
We'll hear from Mamie Kanfer Stewart of Meeteor, Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Cameron Herold the author of Meetings Suck and Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK.
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Interview: Mamie Kanfer Stewart of Meeteor on how to do meetings better
Mamie Kanfer Stewart, founder of Meeteor, talks with us about how to do meetings better. It's not just about being productive, but about getting higher quality work done as a result of that meeting.
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Productivity: Achieving Deep Work
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill, because of our modern times, that is becoming increasingly more difficult to achieve. Today we outline some helpful practices...
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Interview: Ron Wiener of Thermogenesis Group on the science of working while walking
Ron Wiener, the CEO of the Thermogenesis Group who runs the site Workingwhilewalking.com talks with us about the benefits of standing desks and walking desks and the science behind what happens when you get on the move during your work day.
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Interview: Matt Hunckler of Verge
Matt Hunckler is the founder and CEO of Verge, an event company that helps startup communities produce pitch events in their local towns. Matt spent the better part of 2016 on the road building his company and these communities and shares with us some of the techniques and tools he used to keep himself and his team productive while traveling.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the web
Productivity: Email is dead! Long live email!
Slack, Hipchat, Campfire - Chat applications have taken over our modern work communication. While they have certainly reduced our need for internal email they have caused their own set of productivity distractions. How do we deal with this distractions before they completely kill our productivity? Oh, and email isn't really going anywhere so let's learn some triage techniques that some of our favorite CEO's use every day.
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Interview: Natalie Nagele of Wildbit
Today we talk with Natalie Nagel Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit. Wildbit is known for it's popular products Beanstalk, Postmark and Deploybot. We talk about productivity and how they've built it into the culture at Wildbit.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on ho
Productivity: The Future of Workspace Design
In the second episode of our productivity series we dive into what makes a productive workspace. Spoiler alert - there’s no single answer. We get different perspectives on open vs. closed offices, clean vs. messy desks, and sitting vs. standing (and even walking) while you work. While we can’t tell you what’s best for you, you’ll definitely walk away from this episode with some food for thought on your current setup.
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Interview: Amir Salihefendic of Todoist
Amir Salihefendic talks with us about his inspiration for creating Todoist, a productivity app for individuals and teams. he walks us through some of his personal habits that help him stay sharp, focused and productive as well as how he's empowered his team to be more productive day after day.
Todoist keeps track of all your tasks, projects, and goals in one beautifully simple place. It syncs across all your devices and integrates with all your favorite apps. For people who need less chaos and m
Productivity: Why are we obsessed with productivity? (Ep 1)
“How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week?” That was the question that actually worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in 1930. Over the next century, he predicted, the economy would become so productive that people would barely need to work at all. So what happened? Why are we so obsessed with productivity today?***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that pr
Powering your growth engine (Growth Ep 5)
In this episode we break down our talks with Casey Winters, Andrew Chen, Dmitry Dragilev and Ryan O'Donnell about what it was like to be a one person growth team and how they grew the teams at Grubhub, Pinterest, Zurb & SellHack.
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Interview: Ryan O'Donnell of Sellhack
Mike Belsito (@belsito) talks with Ryan O'Donnell about being a CEO focused on growth and how he prioritizes growth and growth experiments at his company. Ryan also has a special announcement for Rocketship.fm listeners so stay tuned! SPONSOR: Prezi Bus
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Finding Traction (Growth Ep 4)
Today we break down how to find traction with none other than Duck Duck Go's Gabriel Weinberg. Gabriel wrote the book on Traction (literally) and today we're going to explore how you can use his method to find Traction for your business.
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Interview: Ash Maurya creator of the Lean Canvas
Today we talk with Ash Maurya, the creator of the Lean Canvas and most recently the author of Scaling Lean. His posts and advice have been featured in Inc., Forbes, and Fortune and we're incredibly excited to share his insights with you.
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A look inside two high-growth Startups (Growth Ep 3)
Casey Winters and Joel Gascoigne have created massive growth for their respective companies. Today we take a look at what it was like on the marketing team during the early days of Grubhub and what it looks like when a high growth company hires too fast.
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Interview: Teju Owoye on viral loops and growth hacks
Teju Owoye of the Sulte Group built a million dollar business in under six months by utilizing her own principals of viral loops and growth hacks. Today on the show we interview Teju and find out what exactly are her steps to achieving high growth.
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Interview: Casey Winters of Pinterest
Casey Winters was the first marketing hire at GrubHub. He helped the company grow from three cities to over 500, and created and implemented strategies for SEM, SEO, email marketing, conversion, mobile, loyalty, offline marketing, and M&A.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For m
Interview: Dmitry Dragilev of Just Reach Out
Dmitry is known as one of the most prolific growth hackers today. He was the first growth hire at Zurb. He's grown his own blog, criminally prolific, to earn over 100k in 9 months. He's now the founder of Just Reach Out, a PR startup to help small businesses.
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Interview: Justin Mares author of Traction / Fomo
Justin Mares talks about acquiring (and changing the name of) his latest venture, the Shopify app, Fomo. He talks about taking what growth looks like from here. SPONSOR: Prezi Business. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, plea
Growths Guiding Light (Growth Ep 2)
Today on the show we look into two main concepts of growth, the guiding light and your products magic moment. We hear from Alex Shultz, Tim Draper, & Andrew Chen. Michael Sacca and Mike Belsito also discuss some of the growth efforts they've been experiencing.
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The Strange Origin of Growth Hacking (Growth Ep 1)
In the first episode of our Growth series we dive into the history of Growth and Growth Hacking with clips from Sean Ellis (who coined the phrase) and Andrew Chen (who wrote one of the seminal articles on the topic).
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Interview: Andrew Chen of Uber on Growth
Andrew Chen, who wrote one of the seminal articles on growth, "Growth in the new VP of Marketing," talks with us about the early days of the growth community, what he's currently focused on and measuring at Uber and some of the important metrics you need.
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Interview: John Warrillow Founder of The Value Builder System
John Warrillow, founder of the Value Builder System, talks with us about the optimizations companies need to make in order to maximize their value and get the best multiples when they try to sell their businesses.
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Interview: Kyle Poyar of OpenView Partners on a simple framework for pricing your SaaS product
Today Mike Belsito talks with Kyle Poyar about SaaS Pricing and his simple framework for determining your product pricing. Kyle is a market strategies for OpenView Venture Partners and put together this simple framework based on his observations.
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Scaling SaaS (SaaS Ep 5)
In our fifth and final episode we dive into scaling a SaaS business with clips from talks by Jason Cohen of WPEngine and Gail Goodman of Constant Contact. We'll discuss the emotional side of scaling and managing a team.
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Interview: Ed Shelley on SaaS Pricing Models
Ed Shelley of ChartMogul talks with us about different aspects of SaaS pricing, and what the current trends in the industry look like. Ed discusses the benefits of having a free demo version of your product and common thoughts behind different pricing models.
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Winning the Market (SaaS Ep 4)
On today's episode we talk about what it takes to win the market, and what it takes might not be what you think. We dive into hiring a diverse team, retaining that team and empowering them to do amazing work - without having to micromanage every decision.
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Interview: Bobby Martin on the 4 stages of SaaS growth
Bobby Martin, author of The Hockey Stick Principles, talks with us about the 4 stages of growth. He gets real with what you really should expect at each phase, and shares some real-life examples. The big lesson: stick with it.
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What the CAC?! (SaaS Ep 3)
We take a look at SaaS metrics that actually matter. LTV, ARR, CPA, CPC, CAC and help you break them down so you know what to focus on.
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Interview: Clay Collins on Perfecting Your Pricing Model
Clay Collins, founder of Leadpages, talks with us about the pricing journey that his company has gone through. He talks about the importance of nailing down the right pricing model for your company, and shares how his company approaches their own pricing.
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Building a pricing model that works (SaaS Ep 2)
In the second episode of our SaaS series, we discuss the ever evolving topic of SaaS pricing. Now we know it happens recurring, monthly or yearly generally, but how do you determine the value of your product.
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The History of SaaS (SaaS Ep 1)
In the first episode of this SaaS series we talk about the history of SaaS, and how it evolved from ASP's ashes to become one of the largest and most profitable business formats. We talk with SaaS expert Rick Chapman as he discusses the history and keys to SaaS.
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Interview: Laura Roeder Of Edgar
Laura Roeder, founder of Edgar, talks with us about what it's like to build a product-driven company. She discusses the strategies her team uses to build a simple, clear road map that focuses on saturating a core market before looking broader.
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Leading with a Vision (Product Ep 5)
In our final episode of the product series we explore what it really means to be a product-driven company. More than anything, it's an exercise in restraint. Don't just build because you can, or because technology allows, but because you're advancing.
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Interview: Ryan Singer of Basecamp
Ryan Singer the Product Manager at Basecamp, talks with us today about what the process looked like when designing and then releasing the newest version of Basecamp.
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In Bezos we Trust (Product Ep 4)
In the fourth episode of our product series we bring you the story of eBay and Amazon in the early 2000s, and how their fierce competition for market share came down to two different, specific product approaches. It's a great story that few know, with some key lessons baked in. We'll also share something that Jeff Bezos does to this day to ensure the customer is always represented in product meetings.
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Interview: Benjamin Gilbert on Continuous Experimentation
Benjamin Gilbert Co-Founder of Pioneer Square Labs, talks with us about what it is like to be apart of a company that constantly creates, tweaks, and publishes products.
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Building Better products through data (Product Ep 3)
In this third episode of our Product series, Ben Foster and Bob Moesta share stories and insights about how the key to gathering customer feedback is through the deeper, often unstudied observations. Leslie Bradshaw then joins in with the idea it's never too early to start prototyping.
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Interview: Bob Moesta on Jobs-to-be-done
Bob Moesta President of The ReWired Group and one of the architect's of the JTBD framework, talks with us about how the Job's To Be Done framework was developed, and how he has used it throughout his work to be successful.
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It's more than a Milkshake #jtbd (Product Ep 2)
In this second episode of the Product series, we dive into some practical examples of the Job's To Be Done (JTBD) framework. With Eric White we look into how Bob Moesta was able to transform the selling ability of condominiums.
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Interview: John Vars, Chief Product Officer at TaskRabbit, on Product Vision
John Vars a project manager at TaskRabbit, talks with us about he has was able to come into a relatively new company and create a structure to achieve higher results. He shares some tools that he uses to keep things organized and on track such as the OKR.
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The Evolution of the Baseball Cap (Product Ep 1)
In this first episode of our Product series we track the start, evolution and explosion of growth that occurred in the baseball cap industry. We look at how a few key people and decisions caused a once non-existent product to bloom into a two billion dollar industry.
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Interview: George Santino from Microsoft
George Santino musician and author of Get Back Up: From the Streets to Microsoft Suites, shares with us his story and how he used his street smarts and hard work to maneuver through multiple career changes to eventually end up as a Microsoft partner.
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Interview: Raghav Bahl of Quintype on Partnerships
Raghav Bahl, Co-Founder of Quintype and The Quint, talks with us about how he launched himself into the TV and Media market which made him a crucial part in bringing in multiple networks such as CNBC to India.
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Interview: Author Eliot Peper on Data Privacy
Eliot Peper author of Neon Fever Dream and Cumulus, talks with us about how we are signing over our data in exchange for free services, and what questions we should be asking before signing the dotted line.
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Big data, privacy and the implications of the surveillance economy (Data Ep 6)
In this final series episode, we summarize how big companies are using our data as a new currency. With companies such as Google and Facebook we are trading our data in exchange for the benefits of their product. Is the solution to stop giving big companies our information, or is it about recognizing how companies are using our data and making a conscience decision of what information we give away? We tackle these questions and more on this week's episode.
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Interview: Author JR Little on data for brands
JR Little, author of Listening Brands, and is the Global Head of Innovation at Carat, talks with us about how brands can leverage social data to increase the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
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Unique and interesting ways companies are using data (Data Ep 5)
In this fifth episode of the data series we look into some examples of companies using big data in unique ways.
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Interview: Derrick Harris of Mesophere
Derrick Harris of Mesosphere talks with us about how data is changing the way businesses operate. The ability to capture data at quantity and analyze it at speed has enabled companies to create much more personalized experiences and develop competitive ad experiences.
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Achieve big, ambitious goals with OKRs (Data Ep 4)
In this episode we take a deep dive into OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and why you should consider setting them up at your company. We learn how to use OKRs to achieve large, ambitious company goals, while keeping everyone on track at the team and individual levels. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows,
Interview: Author SC Moatti of Facebook on Mobile Data
SC Moatti, author of Mobilized, talks with us about what the mobile revolution really means both for companies and for consumers.
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How to build a systematic growth engine (Data Ep 3)
In part three of our series on data, we explore how three incredible companies, Hubspot, Codeship, and Shopify, leverage data to inform growth. We'll take you through each of their stories and break down the key elements they use to drive systematic growth.
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Interview: Amr Awadalla of Cloudera
Amr Awadalla, co-founder of Cloudera, talks with us about how they originally thought their customers would just be tech/web/telecom/financial industries, but the advent of the "internet of things" completely changed the game.
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The History of Hadoop and the incredible evolution of big data
In the second part of our series on data we talk about the origins of Hadoop, the technology that formed the very foundation of what we know as “big data”. The emergence of Hadoop represents perhaps the single most important development in our lifetimes for storing, processing, and retrieving big data. And not only is this technology behind just about everything you touch on the web, it’s now even being used in the medical field to save lives.
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Interview: Vas Natarajan of Accel Ventures on VC Data
Vas Natarajan, Partner at Accel Ventures, talked with us about how data has impacted not only their industry, but businesses of every size all over the globe. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.
What are organizations doing with all this 'big data' anyway?! (Data Ep 1)
We dive into two case studies, one on how the Cleveland Cavs use big data to keep in touch with their fans and how Mirum, a global marketing agency, helped one startup implement some data tracking anyone can do today.
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Interview: Elegant Entrepreneur author Danielle Tate
Danielle Tate, founder of MissNowMrs and author of Elegant Entrepreneur, talks with us about why more women need the skills to confidently start and scale a business of their own.
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Interview: Brett Hagler of New Story on Strategic Partnerships
Brett Hagler, founder of New Story, talks with us about keeping focus on the things they're really good at, and choosing strategic partners to help them achieve a larger vision.
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Interview: Jason Lankow of Visage
Jason Lankow, founder of Visage and Column Five, talks with us about finding your own personal style to sales. With years of experience under his belt he has some great advice for finding your voice, keeping it authentic, and developing a healthy perspective.
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Why you're never done selling (Sales Ep 5)
In the final episode of our sales series we talk about the notion that you’re never really done selling. Sales doesn’t end when you close a deal. Nurturing the relationship, encouraging engagement, and following through on your initial promise is an ongoing process.
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Interview: Andy Paul author of Zero-Time Selling
Andy Paul, author of Zero-Time Selling and Amp Up Your Sales, talks with us about how it doesn't matter what you're selling, but how you sell it.
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Closing the Deal (Sales Ep 4)
In part four of our sales series we talk about the art of actually closing the deal you've worked so hard to nurture. We cover the questions you need to ask in order to get the key pieces of information necessary to make a close.
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Interview: Mel Gordon of Tap Hunter on Building a Sales-Driven Company
Mel Gordon, co-founder of TapHunter, talks about what it takes to build a sales-driven company. From building a pipeline, to perfecting your pitch, handling objections, and hiring great salespeople—we cover it all.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Po
The Art of the Pitch (Sales Ep 3)
In part three of our sales series we dive deep into the techniques that separate good sales pitches from great ones. We walk through the traits of great sales people, from how they handle objections to how they stay resilient.
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Interview: Ryan O'Donnell of Sellhack on How to Become a Prospecting Machine
Ryan O'Donnell, co-founder of Sellhack, shares his tactics for setting up a pipeline of qualified sales prospects. He covers everything from building strong segments to developing an automated outreach strategy and moving leads through your funnel. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events.
The secrets to building a sales pipeline (Sales Ep 2)
In part two of our sales series we talk about pipelines. What is a pipeline? How do you build one? What tools and techniques can you leverage to make sure you're on the right track? You'll hear expert tips from the people who live this stuff day in and day out.
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Interview: Joel Holland, founder of Video Blocks
Joel Holland, founder of Video Blocks, talks with us about building his idea into a $25 million business. He walks us through decisions about moving toward a subscription sales model, and how he's been able to scale up volume. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information
Sales is not a dirty word (Sales Ep 1)
In part one of our series on sales we dive into the variety of ways you may approach sales (inside sales, outside sales, inbound leads, etc.), and how to identify what type of pipeline might be right for you.
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Interview: Timo Rein, CEO of Pipedrive
Timo Rein, CEO of Pipedrive, talks with us about what small teams can do to to make a big difference in their sales through a couple key tactics. Timo is an entrepreneur and founder with a background in sales and has built Pipedrive from zero to cash flow.
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The State of Venture Capital Today (Funding Ep 4)
You've probably heard the growing sentiment coming out of Silicon Valley that there is a bubble about to burst. We just had one of the lowest quarters of startup funding in the last year and a half and unicorn valuations are getting slashed. But what does that mean for businesses today?
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Generating Returns – Liquidity Basics for Startups (Funding Ep 3)
In today's market there are lots of ways to liquidate returns for your investors. In this episode we talk through some of the more common ways companies are doing this, and what route you may consider depending on the type of business you want to build.
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The First Silicon Valley Venture Deal (Funding Ep 2)
Ever wonder how Silicon Valley became the venture capital and technology capital of the world? In this episode we'll take you back to the 1950s and share the story that kicked it all off.
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What does a funding round mean anyway? (Funding Ep 1)
In part one of our series on funding, we explore the various ways in which startups raise, sources of financing, and the terminology you need to know when it comes to raising a round.
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Interview: John Shumate on Negotiating an Investment Deal
John Shumate, CEO of Venture First, talks with us about how to navigate the negotiation process when you're raising a round. He highlights terms to be on the lookout for, and basic strategies for leveraging a good deal for everyone involved.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For mor
Interview: John Livesay on The Secrets of How, What, and Who to Pitch with
John Livesay, funding strategist, talks with us about the things you need to consider when it comes to pitching your product. Beyond covering the elements of a great pitch, he shares advice on how to find and approach the right investors based on your business.
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Interview: Andy White on The State of Venture Capital Inside (and outside of) Slicon Valley
Andy White discusses the state of venture capital and how it's changing inside and outside of Silicon Valley and what he has brewing in San Diego currently.
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Interview: Bryce Roberts of Indie.vc
Bryce Roberts, founder of OATV and Indie.vc, talks with us about their new model for investing in seed stage companies. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Rocketship,
Interview: Jay Chernikoff on Building Entrepreneurial Communities
Jay Chernikoff, founder of co-working space(s), DeskHub, talks with us about building entrepreneurial communities and changing the way even established, large organizations work. **If there's a DeskHub location in your city, mention this episode of the Rocketship.fm.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, lau
200 Episodes! Reflections, Lessons, and What's Next
After two years and 200 episodes, we take a step back and reflect on some of our favorite lessons learned, surprising conversations, and what we're working on next. Enjoy!
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Interview: Jason Fried of Basecamp on Going the Distance: How to Stick Around for the Long Run
Jason Fried, founder of Basecamp, talks with us about what it takes for a company to stay around for the long run. From the importance of early habits to the most impactful ways to iterate, he shares some incredible insights in this episode.
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Interview: Steli Efti of Close.io on Emotional Alchemy: Taking Sh*t and Turning it Into Gold
Steli Efti, founder of Close.io and co-host of The Startup Chat podcast, talks with us about the emotional side of entrepreneurship and sales, and how he overcomes failures, rejections, and slumps.
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Interview: Jon Nastor of Hack the Entrepreneur on Stop Procrastinating, Build a Business, and Do Work That Matters
Jon Nastor, host of Hack the Entrepreneur and author of How to Stop Procrastinating, Build a Business, and Do Work That Matters, talks with us about the experience of interviewing over 170 entrepreneurs and writing a book to share the most impactful lessons he's learned.
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Interview: Jeff Epstein of Ambassador on The New Era of Affiliate Marketing
Jeff Epstein, founder of Ambassador, talks with us about three distinct umbrellas of affiliate marketing, and how each can help boost your business. He shares some insights into their sales processes and culture, as well as how they use their own product.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and e
Interview: Will Hench of ThreadLab on Shopping by the Numbers
Will Hench, founder of ThreadLab, talks with us about their unique approach to ecommerce selling, designed to reduce the buyer's cognitive load by making choices for them, and using data to guide these choices.
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Interview: Gregg Parise of Events.com on Prioritizing Culture to Fuel Growth
Gregg Parise, CEO of Events.com, talks with us about how they’ve prioritized culture above all else, and how impactful that has been on their ability to grow and win in the marketplace.
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Interview: Craig Wortmann of Sales Engine on Entrepreneurial Selling vs. Professional Selling
Craig Wortmann, founder of Sales Engine and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago, talks with us about the difference between professional selling and entrepreneurial selling.
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Interview: Rob Walling of Drip on Prioritizing Customer Success/Onboarding as a Growth Strategy
Rob Walling, founder of Drip, talks with us about his recent focus on customer success. He believes there is a middle-ground between 100% self-serve, and high-touch onboarding, and he's hired help to find it.
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Interview: Michael Jamin on How to Structure Your Story
Michael Jamin, long-time Hollywood screenwriter for shows such as Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and most currently, Maron, talks with us about what a story really is. He walks us through key structural elements that you can use to help tell your story.
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Interview: David Hauser of Grasshopper on Back to Basics, Building a Business the Old-School Way
David Hauser, Founder of Grasshopper, talks with us about his angel investing philosophy. They don’t invest in companies without at least $500k-$1 million annual revenue and no intention of raising another round.
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Interview: Paul Bradley of Eventric on Waiting for the Market to Catch Up
Paul Bradley, founder of Eventric, shares his story of bootstrapping for 10 years before raising money and shifting their business model.
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Interview: Nick Disabato of Draft on Get the Most out of Your A/B Tests
Nick Disabato, founder of Draft and author of Cadence & Slang, talks with us about the intricacies of A/B testing that he uses with his clients.
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Interview: Alex Berman of InspireBeats on Stepping Up Your Cold-Email Game
Alex Berman, Chief Marketing Sumo at InspireBeats, talks with us about how they’ve built their business by sending over a million targeted, personalized cold emails. He shares some great tips for improving your emailing efforts and closing more deals.
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Interview: Adam Saint of Bench on How to Design for the Motivation of Your Customers
Adam Saint, co-founder and VP of Design at Bench, talks with us about what design really means to him. It’s far beyond how something looks, and much more about the function of a system, and how that system works best for the intentions of the user.
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Interview: Dave Munson of Saddleback Leather on Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship
Dave Munson, founder of Saddleback Leather, talked with us about the importance of having a purpose behind whatever it is that you do.
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Interview: David Cancel of Drift on The Value of Marketing to Current Customers
David Cancel, founder of Driftt, shares the fears and excitement of starting his 5th startup, and lessons he's carried with him from one to the next.
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Interview: Matt Schlict of ZapChain on Using Micro Transactions to Try and Create the Next Big Social Network
Matt Schlict, founder of ZapChain, talks with us about building a new kind of social network of communities, where bitcoin is exchanged, or 'tipped out' as a way of acknowledging great content and commentary.
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Interview: Tim Fargo of Tweet Jukebox on Don’t Worry About Getting Ready, Get Started
Tim Fargo, founder of Tweet Jukebox, talks with us about starting over in the SaaS space after a $20 million dollar exit in the service space. He's figuring it out as he goes, and jumping right in the deep end. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podgl
Interview: Jonathan Eppers of RadPad on Supply before Demand - How to Grow a Marketplace
Jonathan Eppers, CEO of RadPad, talks with us about the unique tactics they’ve used to approach growing a marketplace, where it can be difficult to bring both sides to the table.
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Interview: Thomas Knoll on Entrepreneurship for Couples
Thomas Knoll, serial entrepreneur and personal advisor, talks with us about his new venture, Knoll Consulting. He teamed up with his wife, a licensed psychotherapist to create a 6-week course designed to help entrepreneurs and their partners succeed.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events
Interview: Brett Hagler of New Story on Putting Venture Capital to Work on a Good Cause
Brett Hagler, Co-Founder and CEO of New Story, and his team have built a unique donation model, with 100% of donated funds being put to work building homes in Haiti, and with operational costs being funded by their investors.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on
Interview: Michael Amburgey of hiVolume Media on Moving the Karaoke Industry into this Century
Michael Amburgey, Founder and CEO of hiVolume Media Co. and KaraoQ, talks with us about rolling out their karaoke app and replacing old, tedious processes with new technology.
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Interview: Ian Crosby of Bench on How to Build Something People Want to Buy
Ian Crosby, co-founder and CEO of Bench, talks with us about their journey from a totally manual process to something vastly more efficient and scalable.
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Interview: Chris McMurtry of Dart Music on Why You Should Tackle the Hardest Problems First
Chris McMurtry, founder of Dart Music, talks with us about the problems they’re tackling in the metadata and distribution of classical music, and how the genre is growing.
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Interview: Chris Lucas of Formstack on How to Experiment with, Measure, and Optimize Marketing Channels
Chris Lucas, VP of Marketing at Formstack, talks with us about how they experiment with, measure, and optimize various marketing channels. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listen
Interview: Jason Amunwa of Filament on Iterating Your Way to Product-Market-Fit
Jason Amunwa, Director of Product for Filament, talks with us about their process for iterating their way to product market fit.
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Interview: Ken Davenport of Mission Edge on How to Embed Giving Back into Your Company
Ken Davenport, CEO of Mission Edge, talks with us about how they’re helping non-profits run the business side of their organizations.
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Interview: Andrei Soroker of Sameroom on Identifying the Right Pivot Opportunity, and Seizing It
Andrei Soroker, CEO of Sameroom, talks with us about the early days of their chat app and what it was like competing with Slack and other early players in the space.
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Interview: Gabriel Weinberg of Traction on How to Find, Test, and Double Down on Scalable Growth Channels
Gabriel Weinberg, Co-Author of Traction, shares what's changed since the first release of his book. He covers the Bullseye Framework and how it's changed over time.
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Interview: Brian Trauschold of Ambition on How to Prospect and Close 50% of Your Deals
Brian Trauschold, Co-Founder of Ambition, talks with us about their entire approach to sales. He covers the importance of identifying the right person at the right company to talk to, and shares various techniques for cold reachouts and followups.
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Interview: Florian Dorfbauer of UsersnapHow on to Use Growth Experiments to Accelerate Your Startup
Florian Dorfbauer, Co-Founder and CEO of Usersnap, shares their internal process around using growth experiments to methodically scale their customer base.
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Interview: Jason Zook of Buymyfuture.com on Building a Business that Makes You Happy
Jason Zook, creator of Buymyfuture.com, talks with us about lessons he’s learned over the past decade of entrepreneurship. His perspectives and goals have changed a lot during that time, and have affected the way he runs and operates his business.
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Interview: Ben Uretsky of Digital Ocean on How to Strengthen Culture During Rapid Growth Spurts
Ben Uretsky, CEO of Digital Ocean, talks with us about maintaining a strong and positive culture through explosive growth (they went from 40 employees to over 120 in less than a year).
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Interview: Greg Beaufait of Dundee Venture Capital on The New Landscape of Seed Funding
Greg Beaufait of Dundee Venture Capital talks with us about the trend of seed rounds becoming more like traditional A rounds in size and early company valuations.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Polic
Interview: Nathan Chan of FoundrMag on How To Grow a Massive Tribe on Instagram
Nathan Chan, creator of FoundrMag, talks with us about how they’ve grown their Instagram following to over 300,000 followers, and how the channel is drastically more engaging (and profitable) than any other social outlet.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how
Interview: Allie O’Connell of Bellhops on 5x-ing Growth Through Traditional Channels
Allie O’Connell, Director of Marketing for Bellhops, talks with us about how they’ve 5x-ed their revenue since last year, with a focus on PR, TV, Print, and word-of-mouth.
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Interview: Jane Portman of UI Breakfast on Getting off the Ground Without a Designer
Jane Portman, creator of UI Breakfast and author of The UI Audit, talked with us about common mistakes founders make when they approach design and feature integration with their app. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please
Interview: Michael Conley of The Cleveland Cavaliers on The Incredible Marketing Machine Behind the Cleveland Cavaliers
Michael Conley, VP of Digital at The Cleveland Cavaliers, talked with us about the kinds of digital campaigns they're running to create an ultra personal experience for fans both inside and outside of the stadium.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Pod
Interview: Cynthia Jamin of TwirlyGirl on Building a Truly Authentic Business
Cynthia Jamin, Founder of TwirlyGirl, talked with us about the very personal reasons for starting the business. She shares how she’s remained true to her purpose at every step along the way, even when it went against the grain of what everyone else said.
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Interview: Ai Ching Goh of Piktochart on Starting Up in Southeast Asia
Ai Ching Goh, Co-Founder of Piktochart, talks with us about what it’s been like starting the company in Southeast Asia. From the support of the government to finding talent, there are a ton of opportunities to take advantage of.
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Interview: Aman Mann of Procurify on Fake it Until You Make it...Perception is Everything
Aman Mann, Co-Founder/CEO of Procurify, shares stories from their early days and the relentless hustle that got them off the ground.
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Interview: JD Graffam of Simple Focus on A Different Approach to Scaling a Product Business
JD Graffam, Founder of Simple Focus, an agency which also acquires SaaS products like Ballpark and Pulse App, talked with us about his product acquisition process.
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Interview: Mitch Wainer of DigitalOcean on How to Build a Content Growth Engine
Mitch Wainer, co-founder and CMO of DigitalOcean, talks with us about how they’ve grown to over 150 people and the one of the top hosting providers, second only to AWS, in just a few short years.
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Interview: Marti Wolf of Mailchimp on How Mailchimp Adds Process Without Sacrificing Culture
Marti Wolf, the Chief Culture Officer at Mailchimp, talks with us about how they’ve maintained their culture of fun and weirdness as they’ve grown to over 400 people.
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Interview: Jeremy Reeves on Crafting a Value-Based Sales Funnel
Jeremy Reeves, direct response copywriter, talks with us about how to methodically put together a sales funnel that provides real value to your potential customers.
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Interview: Ankur Nagpal of Fedora on The Hidden Costs of Building a Feature
Ankur Nagpal, founder of Fedora, talks with us about growing his marketplace. He shares ways he helps make customers successful, how he leverages Product Hunt to drive traffic back to the Fedora platform, and lessons he learned after building too many features.
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Interview: Ryan Negri of Laicos on Building a Foundation Optimized to Scale
Ryan Negri, co-founder of Laicos, talks with us about his first company, Negri Electronics, and how he learned the importance of working with the right people and being able to delegate. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, ple
Interview: Tom Leung of Poachable on Avoiding False Positives in the Pursuit of Product-Market Fit
Tom Leung, co-founder of Poachable, talked with us about how Poachable got started out of a pivot from a previous company.
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Interview: Richard White of UserVoice on Using Behavioral Analytics to Drive Product Direction
Richard White, CEO of UserVoice, talks with us about using behavioral data to help drive product decisions and feature iterations. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to R
Interview: Flo Motlik of Codeship on Scaling a Focused & Productive Engineering Team
Flo Motlik, co-founder of Codeship, talked with us about focus and productivity within their engineering team. Wherever there’s an opportunity to remove a task pay for another piece of software to handle it, it’s a no-brainer.
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Interview: Eliot Peper of Uncommon Stock on Your Strategy is Your Story
Eliot Peper, author of the Uncommon Stock fiction series, talks with us about the critical importance of nailing your story. From communicating with customers, to investors, to employees, your story has to matter.
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Interview: Saadia Muzaffar on Why Transparency is More Urgent than Ever
Saadia Muzaffar discusses with us her recent article, "I Told a Dude How Much I Made and it Changed My Life." She shares her take on the larger conversation of transparency and equality in the workplace, specifically in regards to equal pay.
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Interview: Jonathan Schor of CodeMonkey on Using a Distribution Partner to Scale Revenue
Jonathan Schor, founder of CodeMonkey, talks with us about scaling their distribution through strategic partnerships. He talks about the ed-tech space and the interesting challenges of starting this company in Israel.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The
Interview: Susan Steinbrecher on The 6-Step Process to Conflict Resolution
Susan Steinbrecher, executive coach and mediator, talks with us about key elements to conflict resolution. She illustrates the types of conversations you need to have around values alignment, mutual expectations, and clearly defined roles.
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Interview: Khaled Naim of OnFleet on How Saying "No" Kept this Startup on Track
Khaled Naim, CEO of OnFleet, talks with us about their long-term approach to building their business. He shares why they choose to turn away eager customers, even handing them over to the competition, and why it’s the right thing for them in the long run.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and e
Interview: David Ciccarelli of Voices.com on Building a Company That’s Set up to Scale
David Ciccarelli, CEO of Voices.com and weekly contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur.com, and others, talks with us about building a company that's systems-oriented, and making sure you're set up to scale without sinking in a ton of time and money.
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Interview: Jock Purtle of DigitalExits on How to Prepare for an Exit
Jock Purtle, owner of DigitalExits, talks with us about value investing and how companies are valued before a sale. He also talks about some basics you need to be prepared for before going through the sales process.
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Interview: Kat Bobbitt of Stand In on The Impact of Acquiring Qualified Beta Users
Kat Bobbitt, Co-founder and CEO of Stand In, talks with us about acquiring beta users and qualifying their feedback. She also talks about the importance and impact of adding prototyping to your workflow.
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The Four Core Areas You Should Focus on When Raising
Peter Wilkins, Managing Director of Hyde Park Angels, talks with us about how entrepreneurs determine if they really should go for a round of capital. And if they go for it, the key things they should consider across any industry.
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Interview: Onno Faber of Taptalk on Use Your Core Values to Differentiate Your App
Onno Faber, founder of Taptalk, shared his story of how Taptalk evolved into it’s current form. He talked a lot about baking their core values and intentions in the app and the UI, and creating limitations to differentiate the app from others.
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Interview: Ryan Kuder of TechStars on The Very Near Future of Robotics
Ryan Kuder, Managing Director of the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, talks with us about making robotics more accessible. He also talks about the difficulties in defining exactly (or philosophically) what a robot is.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more in
Interview: Peter Reinhardt of Segment on The Two Early Pivots of Segment
Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment, talks about the early days and finding their way to the current iteration of Segment. It’s a great lesson in testing your ideas in the market.
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Interview: Sean Wise of The Naked Entrepreneur on Friends Don't Let Friends Start Stupid Startups
Sean Wise, co-author of "Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job" and host of The Naked Entrepreneur, talks with us about questions entrepreneurs need to ask before diving head first into a startup idea.
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Interview: Dilawar Syed of Freshdesk on Scaling Globally with an Inbound Model
Dilawar Syed, President of Freshdesk, talked with us about how they've scaled globally form their headquarters in Chennai, India. He shares his personal passion for helping people outside of Silicon Valley achieve the dream of a global entrepreneurship.
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Interview: Joelle Emerson of Paradigm on Why You Need to Diversify Your Team
Joelle Emerson, co-founder of Paradigm and former women’s rights attorney, talks with us about their approach to helping companies recruit and nurture more diverse talent, and the studies behind the benefits of putting together more diversified teams.
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Interview: Carlos Eduardo Espinal of Seedcamp on Why You Need to Leverage Your Local Ecosystem's Relationships
Carlos Eduardo Espinal, partner at Seedcamp talks with us about the state of tech, what they're looking for in companies, and what he's looking forward to in the future.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privac
How to Nail the Perfect Pitch (and more conf. highlights)
In this special episode we bring you some of our favorite parts of CollisionConf. In particular, we break down a talk by Nicole Glaros, Partner at Techstars Ventures, where she hits on the main points of how to absolutely nail your pitch.
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Interview: Benedikt Lehnert of Wunderlist on Designing Software for Everyday Life
Benedikt Lehnert, Chief Design Officer at Wunderlist, talked with us about how they approach design. They consistently go back to consider the thing they're replacing (in the case of Wunderlist, it's pen and paper), and design for the best possible experience.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches,
Interview: Des Traynor of Intercom on The Product Strategy Behind Intercom
Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom, talks with us about how they make difficult product decisions in respect to adding and removing features, changing pricing, and packaging the product.
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Interview: Justin Mares of Traction on The Technical Hacks Your Marketing Team Needs to Learn
Justin Mares, co-author of Traction and creator of SQL for Marketers and Programming for Marketers, talks with us about the whole new world of opportunities that open up when a non-technical marketer learns just enough to be dangerous.
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Interview: Herbert Moore and Vicki Zhou of WiseBanyan on Bringing Automated Investing to the Masses
Herbert Moore and Vicki Zhou, co-founders of WiseBanyan, talked with us about the barriers to entry of the financial/investment space and the regulatory red tape they’ve had to navigate.
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Interview: Maciej Zawadziński of Piwik on How to Monetize an Open Source Project
Maciej Zawadziński, CEO at Piwik, talks with us about how they turned Piwik, an originally open source product, into a full-fledged enterprise business.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since
Interview: Liz Wessel of WayUp on Scaling a Marketplace Through Quality Curation
Liz Wessel, co-founder of Campus Job, talked about how they're growing both sides of their marketplace - appealing to both students and companies looking for part-time employees.
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Interview: Tucker Max on Life After Fratire
Tucker Max, bestselling author of "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell", and founder of Book in a Box, talks with us about how he and his team help entrepreneurs tell their stories in publishable form.
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Interview: Sara Chipps of JewelBots on So You Want to Build a Hardware Company
Sara Chipps, co-founder of JewelBots, talks with us about the endeavor into building a hardware company, after spending so many years just focused on the software side.
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Interview: Kate Matsudaira of PopForms on How to be Deliberate and Reach Your 5-Year Goal
Kate Matsudaira, founder of PopForms, Spark Notebook, and keynote speaker at this year’s Future Insights Conference, talks with us about taking ownership over your future.
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Interview: Matt Schlicht of ZapChain on The Winning Formula for Viral Content
Matt Schlicht, founder of ZapChain, talked with us about growing a community and keeping the quality of participation high. He also breaks down his uniquely effective, and usually funny, content strategy.
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Interview: Geoffrey Radcliffe of Post Launch on SEO Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Content
Geoffrey Radcliffe, co-founder of Post Launch, walks us through their content strategy process that they use with clients, and teaches us easy ways to get the most SEO juice out of each and every piece of writing.
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Interview: Amit Viswanathan of Doctible on Unconventional Ways to Scale a Marketplace Product
Amit Viswanathan, co-founder of Doctible, talks with us about how their approach to a marketplace product.
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Interview: Mike Brown Jr. of Bowery Capital on A Complete Guide to Startup Sales Tools
Mike Brown Jr., partner at Bowery Capital, talks through his comprehensive list of SaaS tools for every stage of the sales funnel. He discusses why certain tools are necessary at different stages, and differences between similar software.
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Interview: Paul Murphy of Dots on The Marketing Strategy that Made Dots #1 Worldwide
Paul Murphy, co-founder and CEO of the #1 game Dots, talks with us about the strategies and processes they follow when creating and launching new games.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since
Interview: Willis Jackson of Dev CoPilot on Customer Interviews Done Right
Willis Jackson, Founder and CEO of Dev CoPilot, talked with us about validation techniques for early-stage companies. He walks us through a sample sales call and illustrates key points to hit on business development calls.
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Interview: Michael Selepec of Pick on Gaining Early Adoption Within the Enterprise
Michael Selepec, co-founder of Pick, talks with us about their strategies to infiltrate enterprise companies and gain adoption among employees. He shares sales tactics and lessons learned from his early years at Yammer.
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Interview: Cap Watkins of BuzzFeed on Two Ways BuzzFeed’s Design Team Collaborates. (The Second One Will Blow Your Mind.)
Cap Watkins, VP of Design at BuzzFeed, talks with us about how they're trying to bridge the design and communication gap between the many departments of BuzzFeed, from the editorial side to marketing, branding, social, and more.
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Ryan Bettencourt of Cursive Labs on Letting Metrics Determine When to Kill and When to Grow Your Startup
Ryan Bettencourt, managing director of Cursive Labs, talks with us about their venture model and evergreen strategy to running their studio.
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Interview: Dave Nevogt of Hubstaff on Easy SEO Strategies for Startups
Dave Nevogt, cofounder of Hubstaff, talked with us about their heavy focus on SEO. He shares their techniques and some easy wins to help get the most juice out of all your content.
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Interview: Andy Sparks of Mattermark on The Pipeline Tactics of Mattermark’s Sales Team
Andy Sparks, co-founder of Mattermark, talks about Mattermark's sales strategy and culture of their sales team.
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Interview: Mike Belsito of Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us on Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us
Mike Belsito, author of Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us, talks about his experiences raising over $1 million in Ohio. He also shares the story of his first startup, eFuneral and the lessons he learned about raising capital, and spending it wisely.
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Interview: George Diab of WorkingOn on Navigating the Dynamics of Co-founder Relationships
George Diab, cofounder of WorkingOn, talks with us about the importance of communication in cofounder (and team) relationships. Specifically, he focuses on techniques you can do up front to make sure you’re partnering with the right person for you.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events.
Interview: Neil Patel of KISSMetrics on How to Build Your Content Strategy
Neil Patel, co-founder of Crazy Egg, KISSMetrics, and Quick Sprout, talks with us about all things marketing and sales. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Rocketship,
Interview: Nathan Barry of ConvertKit on How to Know When to Invest in Your Company
Nathan Barry, founder of ConvertKit and author of Authority, talked with us about the struggles of getting a SaaS app off the ground.
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Interview: Semyon Dukach of TechStars Boston on How to Know You’re Not the Right CEO
Semyon Dukach, managing director of TechStars Boston, talks with us about what they look for in founders that are applying to the program. He also talks about the qualities of a good CEO, and how difficult it is to find.
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Interview: Jon Nastor of Hack the Entrepreneur on The Secret That Changed One Entrepreneur’s Life
Jon Nastor, host of the Hack the Entrepreneur Podcast, talks with us about his journey as an entrepreneur and what he's learned interviewing some incredible people.
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Interview: George Eiskamp of GroundMetrics on Cracking Into the Old Boys Club
George Eiskamp, CEO of GroundMetrics, talked with us about the struggles of breaking into the Oil and Gas industry.
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Interview: Tony Cappaert of Contactually on How to Build a Sales Team from the Ground Up
Tony Cappaert, co-founder of Contactually, talks with us about how they methodically grew their sales team and refined their sales process over the past few years. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Pol
Interview: Sahil Lavinia of Gumroad on Prioritizing Product Features Based on OKRs
Sahil Lavinia, founder and CEO of Gumroad, talks with us about their philosophy for product development and creating something that serves a variety of verticals well without niching down too much.
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Interview: Jordan Gutierez of Wishpond on Managing a Million Dollar Company on the Side
Jordan Gutierez, founder of Laleo and COO of Wishpond, talks with us about his entrepreneurial adventures, starting when he was just 4 years old. At the age of 17 he started Laleo, which quickly grew to be a Million+ dollar business.
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Interview: Dan Martell of Clarity.fm on The 3rd Exit
Dan Martell, Founder of Clarity.fm, talks with us about his incredible journey to entrepreneurship. He also shares his latest big news with us...the sale of his third company, Clarity, to the Fundable team.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomera
Interview: Steli Efti of Close.io on Follow Up or Die: Why "Maybe" is Killing Your Business
Steli Efti, founder of Close.io, talks with us about his philosophy for sales. He believes in following up indefinitely until you get a hard yes or no.
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Interview: Evan Mendelsohn of TipsyElves on The Shark Tank Effect
Evan Mendelsohn, Founder of TipsyElves, talks with us about his experience appearing on the show Shark Tank.
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Interview: Lance Walley of Chargify on Navigating the Highly Competitive Payment Space
In part two of our two-part interview with Lance Walley, CEO of Chargify, we talk about his early days with the company. He talks about what the payment space was like in 2009 and how things have changed over the past few years.
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Interview: Lance Walley of Chargify on Pioneering the Rails Community with Engine Yard
In part one of our two-part interview with Lance Walley, CEO of Chargify and former CEO of Engine Yard, we talk about the early days of Engine Yard, pioneering the RoR movement, and lessons learned about hiring friends.
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Interview: Thomas Schneider of Kxter on How to Raise "Smart" Money
Thomas Schneider, serial entrepreneur and founder of Kxter, talks about his approach to helping entrepreneurs raise money from the right people for the right reasons.
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Interview: Chuck Longanecker of Digital Telepathy on Company Culture is More Than a Ping Pong Table
Chuck Longanecker, Founder of Digital Telepathy, talks with us about how they’ve built one of the absolute coolest cultures around. He’s completely open about the effort it takes and the tactics that help them build, maintain, and evolve their culture.
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Interview: Allan Branch of LessAccounting on The Truth about Work/Life Balance
Allan Branch, Founder of LessAccounting, talks with us about the myth of work/life balance and what he’s done to create the best combination of the business he wants to run and the family life he strives to protect.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The P
Interview: Laura Roeder of Edgar on The Advantages of an Invitation-Only SaaS Onboarding Flow
Laura Roeder, founder of Edgar, talks with us about limiting early-access to your product in order to build demand. Laura has combined invitation-only access, and drip marketing emails, to attract initial (paying) customers and refine Edgar along the way.
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Interview: Zack Onisko of Creative Market on The Most Important Part of Your UX isn’t in Your App
Zack Onisko, Chief Growth Officer at Creative Market, talks with us about his favorite non-scalable growth tactics. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Rocketship, we'd
Interview: Samuel Hulick of UserOnboard on User Onboarding: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Samuel Hulick, creator of UserOnboard and author of The Elements of User Onboarding, joins us a second time to discuss the aftermath of his first book release, lessons learned, and plans for the future.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate t
Interview: Janine Holsinger of NextChapter on Offline Strategies for Building a Customer Base in a Non-Technical Space
Janine Holsinger, Founder of NextChapter, talks with us about the challenges of getting started in the legal tech space.
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Interview: Sam Soffes on Staying Motivated While Juggling Multiple Projects
Sam Soffes, founder of many awesome apps such as Cheddar, Roon, Whiskey, and Shares, talks with us about how he splits his time between freelancing and all his other projects. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our
Interview: Josh Braun of Jellyvision on Stop Pitching and Close More Deals
Josh Braun, VP of Biz Dev at Jellyvision, talks with us about getting into the mindset of being a good salesman, which is really being a good servant. His process is all about treating people like people, and he shares his techniques for research, development and the art of the sale.
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Interview: Abhi Lokesh of Fracture on Post-Honeymoon Marketing
Abhi Lokesh, Co-Founder and CEO of Fracture, talks with us about the struggles of starting up a company that makes a physical product. The early days of prototyping and finding a market were incredibly interesting to hear about.
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Interview: Al Bsharah on Fantastic Techniques to Motivate Your Team
In this special compilation episode, we talk with the founders of three very different companies about the unique (and effective) ways they motivate their teams. No matter your stage, there's something valuable for everyone to take away from this episode.
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Interview: Eliot Peper of Uncommon Stock on Disrupting the Publishing Industry
Eliot Peper, author of Uncommon Stock and the newly released sequel Power Play, talks with us about his unconventional approaches to marketing and selling his second book.
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Interview: Abby Covert of How to Make Sense of Any Mess on Making Sense of Any Mess
Abby Covert, Information Architect and Author of "How to Make Sense of Any Mess", talks with us about the integral role IA plays in every aspect of our lives.
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Interview: Josh Anon of Visioneer Studios on Storytelling for Startups
Josh Anon, Founder of Visioneer Studios, talks with us about the importance and the impact of storytelling.
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Interview: Andrew Dumont of Betaworks on Leveraging Business Development for Early Growth
Andrew Dumont, EIR at Betaworks, talks with us about his experiences building and selling Stride CRM, all while running business development at Moz.
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Interview: Stefan Martinovic of Create.io on Growing a Startup One City at a Time
Stefan Martinovic, Co-Founder of Create.io, talks with us about automating the very time intensive, archaic process of pricing projects and estimating the economic outcome of real estate development projects.
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Interview: Rob Meadows of Originate on Find and Leverage Your Unfair Advantage
Rob Meadows, CEO of Originate, talks about how the barrier to entry to starting a new venture has never been lower, and why finding the one thing that’s unique to you is more important than ever.
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Interview: Robert Mueller of FastMail on Why You Should Charge from Day One
Robert Mueller, Co-Founder of FastMail, talks with us about growing the company since 1999 and surviving the first dot com bust.
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Interview: Mattan Griffel of OneMonth Tools and Techniques for Optimizing Your Acquisition Channels
Mattan Griffel, growth expert and founder and CEO of OneMonth, talks about customer acquisition and activation. He discusses what metrics you should be tracking and tweaking, and common mistakes he sees people make time and time again.
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Interview: Ryan Carson of Treehouse on Treehouse's Approach to Changing the World Starts from Within
Ryan Carson, Co-Founder and CEO of Treehouse, talks with us about following his passion and the drive to do something big. He also shares with us how he was able to restructure his company into a flat organization with no managers or executives.***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For
Interview: Adda Birni of Skillcrush on Digging Your Way Out of the Trough of Sorrow
Adda Birni, Founder and CEO of Skillcrush, talks with us about the “trough of sorrow” and how she fought and clawed her way to significant month over month growth in revenue.
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Interview: Chris Shepherd of HashRabbit on The Risks and Rewards of Bitcoin Startups
Chris Shepherd, Founder of HashRabbit, talks all about a building a startup around Bitcoin. He’s facing some really interesting challenges and shares unique insights into the whole Bitcoin movement and what it’ll take to reach mass adoption.
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Interview: Thomas Knoll of PrimeLoop on Why Your Company Should Ban Email
Thomas Knoll, Founder of PrimeLoop, talks about why he’s baked the “no internal email” rule into his company.
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Interview: Ian Heidt of Housecall on Hustling for Traction and Doing Things That Don't Scale
Ian Heidt, Co-Founder and CEO of Housecall, talks about the extreme lengths they’ve gone to build early traction in their local market.
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Interview: Eliot Peper of Uncommon Stock on Looking Beyond the Blog Entry
Eliot Peper, author of tech startup fiction thriller Uncommon Stock, talks with us about the carry-over lessons between tech startups and publishing a novel.
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Interview: Leslie Bradshaw of Made by Many on Test Early, Test Often: The Power of Qualitative Data
Leslie Bradshaw, Managing Partner at Made by Many NY, talks about how they capture and use both qualitative and quantitative data to make key product decisions, like what features to build.
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Interview: Brian Balfour of HubSpot on How to Methodically Build a Growth Machine
Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at HubSpot and author of the Coelevate blog, talks with us in-depth about his process for building a growth machine. He walks us through each step of their experiments and how they determine what to focus on.
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Developing Stronger, Smarter Startup Communities
We attended Tech Cocktail's Celebrate Conference in Downtown Las Vegas and put together an absolutely killer episode with the very best highlights of the event. The overarching theme is all about building strong startup communities.
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Interview: Jeff Berg of Planning Center on Three Principles of Success From a Killer Self-Funded Company
Jeff Berg, Founder and Developer at Planning Center, talks about how he's grown his self-funded company to over 30 employees and over 3 million users across their suite of apps.
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Interview: Rob Mallery of Originate on Attracting Top Quality Talent in the Early Stages
Rob Mallery, VP of Talent at Originate, talks with us about attracting top-notch technical and creative talent.
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Interview: Pieter Levels of Levels.io on How to Pull Off 12 (Well Executed) Startups in 12 Months
Pieter Levels, Founder of Levels.io, talks about how he’s building 12 startups in 12 months. Not only do we cover how he’s able to pull that off (and to with awesome quality), but he has really interesting reasons why he’s approaching startups this way.
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Interview: Gordon Wintrob of StackLead on How to Increase Activation Through Awesome Onboarding
Gordon Wintrob, Co-Founder of StackLead, talks about their unique approach to onboarding and activation. He walks us through their flow and shares the effectiveness of different techniques.
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Interview: Jason Roberts of Uber on How to Screw Up a Google Acquisition
Jason Roberts, serial entrepreneur, one of the first developers at Uber and host of the TechZing podcast shares some great stories about his experiences on both sides of the funding table.
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Interview: Scott Nixon of Happy Herbivore on Retargeting Tactics That Unlocked $40,000 in Revenue
Scott Nixon, Co-Founder and CTO of Happy Herbivore, talks about the incredible growth he and his wife have seen over the past few years. He dives deep into the strategies and benefits of retargeting, and shares some staggering numbers.
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Interview: Kosta Gara of Vionic on Physical Goods vs. Software: The Key Differences That Will Change Your Strategy
Kosta Gara , Founder & CEO of Vionic, talks about the differences between a traditional consumer-product environment (like cosmetics or energy drinks) versus a B2B software company.
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Interview: Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures on What Investors Really Look For in Founders
Navid Alipour, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Analytics Ventures, talks with us about the changing landscape of investment, and how the emergence of syndicates opens up a whole new world of investment opportunities for the average joe.
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Interview: Brad Flora of Perfect Audience on Lessons Learned From a $25 Million Dollar Acquisition
Brad Flora, Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience, talks about the recent acquisition of his company. He shares the ups and downs of the entire process, the unexpected points along the way, and how things have changed post-sale.
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Interview: Josh Long on How to Go Beyond Simple Execution and Go After a Huge Opportunity
Josh Long, designer, writer, and creator of many awesome products, talks with us about his balance between multiple projects and income streams, and his passion for learning through all his different projects.
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Interview: David Warren of LIA on Things You Never Considered About Enterprise Sales
David Warren, Founder and CEO of LIA, talks with us about his endeavors in the enterprise sales space. He shares some amazingly intuitive advice and some great stories.
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Interview: Zach Holman of Github on How GitHub Scaled Past Dunbar's Number Without Losing Their Culture
Zach Holman, one of the first engineers at GitHub talks about how their culture and process have changed as they’ve grown from about 10 employees to over 250, (about 2/3 or which are remote).
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Interview: Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo on Getting Past Your Biases to Unlock Unimaginable Growth Channels
Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, talks about his guide to building sustainable and lasting traction throughout the lifetime of a business, and how you can be testing traction channels even before you launch.
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Interview: Rob Walling of Drip on When to Stop Focusing on Building an Audience and Start Pounding the Pavement
Rob Walling, Founder of Drip, Co-Host of Startups for the Rest of Us, and Co-Creator of MicroConf, talks all about how they’ve used their podcast and conference to build an incredibly loyal audience, and how that has affected his product at various stages.
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Interview: Manuel Weiss of Codeship on How to Make, Test, and Iterate on Marketing Assumptions
Manuel Weiss, Co-Founder and CMO of Codeship, shares how they apply the scientific method to everything they do, particularly in their marketing pipeline.
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Interview: Lee Jacobson of Apmetrix on When to Stop “Powering Through” and Pivot
Lee Jacobson, CEO of Apmetrix, talked with us about getting past the “power through it” mentality and opening yourself up to pivoting. By trusting in and listing to the data you collect you can follow various paths to revenue.
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Interview: Ryan Singer of Basecamp on Why You Should Forget Pre-Defined Product Categories
Ryan Singer, Product Manager at Basecamp, talked with us about stripping away pre-defined product categories and focusing on the niche you’re filling and the problem you’re solving.
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Interview: Cat Noone of Liberio on How to Raise Money Outside of San Francisco
Cat Noone, Co-Founder of Liberio, talks with us about their journey raising a seed round in Berlin. She shares strategies they’ve discovered in building their pitch deck, meetings with VCs, and the thought behind raising money in the first place.
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Interview: Sean Ellis of Qualaroo on How to Find Unique Growth Channels Beyond Content
Sean Ellis, Founder and CEO of Qualaroo and GrowthHackers talks about how he massively increased growth at Qualaroo just by changing up their pricing model. He also talks about his motivations behind creating and growing the community at GrowthHackers.com.
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Interview: Owais Peer of Global App Testing on Time Management Tips to Make Your Team Insanely Productive
Owais Peer, Co-Founder of Global App Testing, talks about his unique productivity hacks he uses with his entire team.
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Interview: Brian Zeurcher of Seen on Attracting Enterprise Customers Through Inbound Leads
Brian Zeurcher, Founder and CEO of Seen, talks about the challenges of building a SaaS app for large-scale brands to help promote their social marketing channels through powerful influencers and brand advocates.
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Interview: Melanie Gordon of TapHunter on Bulletproof Sales Techniques That Scale
Melanie Gordon, Co-Founder and CEO of TapHunter, shares the cold-calling and sales techniques they’ve used to scale to profitability within a year of taking a seed round of funding.
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Interview: Carolyn Kopprasch of Buffer on Buffer's Secret to Killer Customer Service and Strategic Hiring
Carolyn Kopprasch, Chief Happiness Officer at Buffer, talks with us about how they’ve kept up quality as they’ve grown their support team, and the unconventional ways they’ve scaled.
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Interview: Robert Williams of LetsWorkshop.com on How to Identify a Pain Worth Solving and Turn It Into a Profitable Business
Robert Williams, Founder of LetsWorkshop.com, talks about how he focused on solving a huge pain point that he personally experienced, and grew it into a super successful startup.
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Interview: Alex Moore of Boomerang on The Ultra-Creative Viral Hooks Boomerang Used to Scale
Alex Moore, Founder and CEO of Boomerang, talks with us about viral tactics he used to grow a product that most people didn’t want others to know they were using. He also shares a hilarious story of how he got his first investor, Dave McClure.
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Interview: Elliot Schneier of Fundable on What Investors Consider When Deciding To Invest In You
Elliot Schneier, COO of Fundable, talks with us about the key factors that investors look for when deciding to invest in you. He shared incredibly thorough insights on topics ranging from idea to traction to funding.
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Interview: Christine Lu of Affinity China on Christine Lu Speaks Out About Startup Founder Depression
Christine Lu, Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity China speaks out about mental health and founder depression. She not only shares her own personal story, but her perspective on why depression is so prominent among startup founders.
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Interview: Conrad Egusa of Publicize on How To Get Featured in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and More
Conrad Egusa, former Venture Beat writer and founder of Publicize, shares his incredibly effective process for getting press in big publications. None of it requires hiring a pr firm, having existing relationships with journalists, or any other myths you
Interview: Garrett Dimon of Sifter on Getting Over the Fear of Starting a Business
Garrett Dimon, founder of Sifter, talks about some of the silliest excuses people make to not start their own company (including his own). He also shares the unexpected benefits that came down the line from running his own business.
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Interview: Nick O’Neill of Startup Stats on Marketing Your Products through Event Planning
Nick O’Neill, Founder of Startup Stats, talks with us about event planning. He shares his process for deciding what kind of event to plan, lining up speakers and ticket sales. There’s an amazing amount of similarities to launching a product.
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Interview: Jesse Mecham of YNAB on Vertical Marketing Strategies and Designing a Company Culture
Jesse Mecham and Taylor Brown of You Need a Budget share their strategies for taking a product with broad appeal and segmenting it down to market to different verticals.
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Interview: Colin Nederkoorn of Customer.io on “Fundstrapping” Your Way to Profitability
Colin Nederkoorn, Founder and CEO of Customer.io, talks about the tactics he used to build early traction and how they converted that traction to an unconventional round of funding that rocketed them to profitability.
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Interview: Scot Chisholm of StayClassy on Raising outside of San Fran and Leveraging The Right Mix of Advisors
Scot Chisholm, Co-Founder and CEO of StayClassy, talks with us about his unusual route to raising 1.5 million seed funding over the course of 2 years.
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Interview: Paul Farnell of Litmus on Creative Funding Strategies For Early Growth
Paul Farnell, Co-Founder and CEO of Litmus, talks about their early growth and how they were able to reach profitability without ever raising “traditional” rounds of funding.
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Interview: Ben Sardella of Datanyze on Sales Tactics That Actually Work
Ben Sardella, sales guru and co-founder of Datanyze, talks about specific sales tactics like personalized emails, social media outreach and more. He shares his “6-touch-point process” and digs into the mistakes he sees companies make over and over again.
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Interview: Nick Francis of Help Scout on How to Fundraise without Venture Capital
Nick Francis, co-founder and CEO of Help Scout, brings a unique, middle-ground, perspective on funding and growth. He also talks about how going through TechStars Boston had a huge impact on their trajectory.
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Interview: Aaron Ross Predictable Revenue on Sales Tactics Aimed at Tripling Revenue
Aaron Ross, best-selling author of Predictable Revenue, talks with us about how he build an outbound sales program at Salesforce that increased recurring revenues by over 100 million dollars.
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Interview: David Sherry of Death to the Stock Photo on The Power of Authenticity
David Sherry, Founder of Death to the Stock Photo, talks about the importance of authenticity. He shared his techniques for keeping high-touch engagement at the forefront of all their community-building efforts.
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Interview: Nathan Gilmore of TeamGantt on Streamlined Planning for Small Teams
Nathan Gilmore, Co-Founder of TeamGantt, shares how they bootstrapped their way to thousands of monthly customers. He also talked to Michael about how this team at Brandisty could benefit from something like Gantt vs. other methodologies.
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Interview: John Sheehan of Runscope on Marketing to Developers and Releasing Free Tools for Lead Generation
John Sheehan, Co-Founder and CEO of Runscope talks about how to market to developers. He shares how they've both aqcuired and built an arsenal of free tools, and how those tools have become the primary source of qualified lead generation for Runscope.
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Interview: Mark Roberge of HubSpot on How to Setup a Painless Content Production Processes
Mark Roberge, Chief Revenue Officer of HubSpot, talks about really easy ways to turn your company into a content machine and drive more inbound leads.
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Interview: Jason Cohen of WP Engine on Growth, Pricing, and the Realities of Funding
Jason Cohen, Founder and CTO of WP Engine, talks about why you shouldn’t be afraid to make ambitious changes to your strategy or pricing, and what those enhancements may look like.
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Interview: Drew Strojny of The Theme Foundry on The Importance of Getting Sh*t Done vs. Striving For Perfection
Drew Strojny, former NFL player and Founder of The Theme Foundry and Memberful, talks about how Memberful was built internally out of necessity and later opened to the public.
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Interview: Thomas Schranz of Blossom.io on Product Philosophy: JTBD & Minimum Marketable Features
Thomas Schranz, Co-Founder & CEO of Blossom.io talks about how he thinks differently about product management. He doesn’t blindly follow standard agile practices - he picks the right tool for the job and avoids unnecessary process.
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Interview: Danielle Morrill of Mattermark on Fundraising, Metrics, and Phenomenal Twitter Rants
Danielle Morrill, Co-Founder and CEO of Mattermark, talks all about funding - when companies should consider seeking it, and the metrics you should be monitoring to know if/when the time is right.
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Interview: Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics on Early-Stage Growth Tactics and Finding Your Focus
Hiten Shah, Founder of CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics, talked about the pros and cons of funding vs. self-funding, and the impact each can have on your focus and early-stage strategy.
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Interview: Cat Noone of Liberio on Leaving the Valley to Start Up in Berlin
Cat Noone, Co-Founder and lead designer for Liberio, talks with us about leaving San Francisco to start a startup in Berlin. She shares some really interesting stories about the experience, both from the social perspective as well as the fundraising side.
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Interview: Perri Blake Gorman of Archive.ly on Relationship Building, The Art of Sales, and Balinese Gurus
Perri Blake Gorman, Founder of Archive.ly and one of the Co-Founders of Unroll.me, talks about how she went from being a head-hunter on Wall Street to a solo, non-technical startup founder.
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Interview: Brendan Schwartz of Wistia on The Rollercoaster Journey of Wistia
Brendan Schwartz, Co-Founder and CTO of Wistia, shares some hilarious stories about his journey going from bootstrapped to raising a round of funding, to not making sale for months after raising that money.
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Interview: Steve Young of Mobile App Chat on Building (and Balancing) Multiple Revenue Streams
Steve Young, host of Mobile App Chat, talks with us about leaving his cush job in the Bay Area to build his own revenue streams through iOS applications, podcast sponsors, and a membership site.
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Interview: Brant Cooper of The Lean Entrepreneur on Market Disruption and Getting Your First Customer
In this episode we talked with Brant Cooper, author of The Lean Entrepreneur. He talks about the common misconceptions around the Lean Startup and how to use early customer interviews to discover the emotional connection that people can have with your product.
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Interview: Yashar Ahmadpour of CrowdClock on Taking a B2B Approach to a Marketplace App
Today we talked with Yashar Ahmadpour, founder of CrowdClock. He talks about his B2B style approach to what’s really a marketplace app, and how he's leveraging partnerships like never before.
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Interview: Oli Gardner of Unbounce on From 0 to 100,000 Users
Oli Gardner, co-founder of Unbounce, talks about the marketing and integrations they did in the early stages to grow their product, and about the transition that he’s making from being Creative Director of the company to more of a public speaking role.
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Interview: Tawheed Kader of ToutApp on Quitting a 6-Figure Job to Bootstrap a Startup
TK, founder of ToutApp, talks about leaving his six figure job to pursue his startup dream, and how he kept trying to build the wrong product— even when the right one was staring him in the face.
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Interview: Moritz Plassnig on Creating "Wow" Moments and the Impact on Engagement
We talked with Moritz Plassnig, co-founder and CEO of Codeship. He talked about how their passion for education, teaching through video and blog posts, is baked into who they are as a company.
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Interview: Gregory Ciotti of Help Scout on Leveraging Content Marketing Materials (Even at Scale)
Today we talked with Gregory Ciotti, the man behind Help Scout’s inbound marketing. He breaks down his process for producing his unique, research-backed content, and he also talks about the recent decision to pull down the email wall to all their guides.
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Interview: Mark Fidelman of Raynforest on How to Get Content Published in the Majors
In this episode we talked with Mark Fidelman, Forbes columnist and founder of Raynforest. He shared some incredible tips for how to get content published and your company promoted in big publications like Forbes. They’re techniques that anyone can use.
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Interview: Brennan Dunn, founder of Double Your Freelancing Rate on An Eye-Opening New Take on Email Lists
Brennan Dunn, founder of PlanScope, author of Double Your Freelancing Rate and a number of other books and courses, talks with us about how he uses one "list" to market all of his products.
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Interview: Adii Pienaar on Taking on New Ventures and Establishing a New Life Balance
Adii, founder of WooThemes and Public Beta talked with us about launching a completely new venture from scratch and some of the controversial techniques he used when validating his idea.
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Interview: Jeremiah Gardner of The Lean Brand on How to Use Lean Branding to Find Product Market Fit
In this episode, Jeremiah Gardner, author of The Lean Brand, shares his techniques for helping companies get to the root of what they're really about (not just what they're selling).
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Interview: Mikael Cho of Crew on The Unexpected Power of "Tool Marketing"
Mikael Cho, founder of Ooomf, talks with us about how they've used "tool marketing" (aka built a few simple, free tools) to help solve problems for their target audience and build a bridge to their main service. His unique approach has paid off big time.
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Interview: Dan Norris of WP Curve on The Failures that Led to the Success of WP Curve
Dan Norris, founder of Informly and WP Curve talks about mistakes he's made in the past, and how he and his partner have learned to "fail fast" and pay closer attention to behavior than verbal feedback.
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Interview: Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch on The Power of Integrating Your SaaS With Other Apps
Ruben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch, shares how he was able to leverage integrations with other apps into promotional opportunities that skyrocketed Bidsketch’s early growth.
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Interview: Chris Hexton of Vero on 3 Simple Rules For Early-Stage Email Lists
In this episode Chris Hexton, founder of Vero, talks about how he was able to grow Vero over the past 18 months. He also shares his 3 simple tips for anyone who's just starting out building their list and not sure how to begin with email marketing.
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Interview: Todd Garland of BuySellAds on The David & Goliath Story of BuySellAds
Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds talked with us about how you don't need to be the first to market, and about how old fashioned hustle and personal touch still pay off in a big way.
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Interview: Samuel Hulick of UserOnboard.com on Growing an Audience from 0 to 3,000 in Less than 2 Months
Samuel Hulick, curator of UserOnboard.com shared how he was able to grow his audience from 0 to over 3000 in less than 2 months, just by creating his own brand of unique content.
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Interview: Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt on How Product Hunt was Launched in Less than 1 Week
Ryan shares how he and his partner, Nathan Bashaw, realased the smallest possible version of their product, Product Hunt, in less than a week. You'll also learn his secrets for getting content published on sites like Pando Daily and Fast Company.
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