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Episodes
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554: Founding a Life Saving Business from your dorm room with Luká Yancopoulos
December 19th, 2024 | Season 14 | 30 mins 47 secs
Luká Yancopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO of Grapevine, reveals to Chad how he and his team are working to revolutionise the hospital supply chain system.
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553: The One with Sami and Chad
December 5th, 2024 | Season 14 | 38 mins 9 secs
After 10 years and 550 episodes of Giant Robots, Chad and Sami are ready to discuss what’s next for the podcast. The pair dive into some podcast role-play as they test out some ideas for iterating the show’s formula.
Peak behind the curtain as they discuss the inner workings of the show, the challenges of working on a mature codebase, how thoughtbot tackles impostor syndrome when onboarding new employees and the developing accessibility of AI.
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552: Scaling an Online Telehealth Experience with Aakash Shah
November 28th, 2024 | Season 14 | 34 mins 50 secs
Chad talks with Aakash Shah, Founder and CEO of Wyndly, about how he built a new online telehealth experience to expand convenient access to allergy immunotherapy. The pair discuss the mechanics of building an online healthcare operation from scratch, the challenges that arise as you begin to scale your business, and how Aakash utilised his past experience as a software engineer to support his new venture.
Discover why this area of medicine has been overlooked for so long, how COVID has shifted our view on healthcare as a whole, as well as the odd rules and quirks of the FDA when trying to market a new medical service.
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551: System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson
November 21st, 2024 | Season 14 | 37 mins 6 secs
In this episode, entrepreneur, CTO, and co-founder Tom Johnson joins us to discuss Multiplayer, a collaborative tool streamlining system design and documentation for developers.
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550: Disrupting and Democratizing Private Chefs with Iyabo Bello
November 14th, 2024 | Season 14 | 39 mins 52 secs
Iyabo Bello is a serial founder and entrepreneur, best known for iKooK, an app connecting private chefs to their target audience. Join us as she shares the unlikely story of how she came up with the idea to start iKooK after working in fashion design and food science.
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549: Scaling Startups and AI-Powered Real Estate with Chris Fellows
November 7th, 2024 | Season 14 | 33 mins 48 secs
We're joined by Chris Fellows, founder and CEO of Bold Street, to explore how his AI-powered platform is reshaping residential investment for real estate professionals.
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548: Product Management vs Project Management with Bethan Ashley
November 1st, 2024 | Season 14 | 34 mins 35 secs
In this episode, we're joined by Senior Product Manager at thoughtbot and Founderland Startup Mentor, Bethan Ashley, who shares her insights and advice on how and when to leverage AI tooling, the difference between project management and product management, and much more.
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547: Fight better using AI with CJ Tayeh
October 24th, 2024 | Season 14 | 38 mins 12 secs
We’re joined by Flank founder, CJ Tayeh, a human rights lawyer turned growth marketer turned social innovator. With a mission to address inequalities and power imbalances, especially around money, she explains how Flank’s AI companion acts as a mediator to foster trust and communication.
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546: Class Awareness with Dr. Justin Key
October 17th, 2024 | Season 14 | 41 mins 25 secs
In this special episode, we're joined by Dr. Justin Key, the Founder of Black Theorem Consulting, to discuss societal divisions driven by social and economic status, and how digital products and services can drive change on a global scale, how designers and developers can be a part of that change, and why developers need to check their biases when building digital technology.
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545: Generative AI: How to Leverage its Power and Mitigate the Risks
October 10th, 2024 | Season 14 | 46 mins 18 secs
We're joined by Sema Founder and CEO, Matt Van Itallie. Sema improves outcomes for users, companies, and developers by providing automated tools to assess code. We discuss the five reasons why you should know how much generative AI is used in your code, and much more.
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544: How BonePixel is Redefining Diagnosis and Treatment with Nazgol Tavabi and Mohammadreza Movahhedi
October 3rd, 2024 | Season 14 | 39 mins 36 secs
We're joined by Nazgol Tavabi and Mohammadreza Movahhedi, the co-founders of BonePixel, a healthcare startup focused on using AI and big data for the diagnosis and treatment planning of joint disorders. We discuss the origins of BonePixel, the challenges of building a healthcare startup, and how they are leveraging AI to make patient-specific treatment planning more accurate and efficient.
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543: The Intersection of AI and Recruitment with Brian Glover
September 19th, 2024 | Season 14 | 42 mins 12 secs
We're joined by Brian Glover, Co-founder and CEO of Previewed, an immersive, streamlined, and intelligent solution for recruiters and candidates. We unpack the company’s skill-based assessment method, the ‘gamification’ of recruitment tools, how Previewed’s platform helps with retention, identifying gaps in a candidate’s skills, and much more.
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542: Shaping Company Culture using AI with Elie Rashbass
September 12th, 2024 | Season 14 | 41 mins 16 secs
Elie Rashbass, CEO & Co-founder at ScultureAI, a startup developing innovative solutions that shape organizational culture from the ground up joins the show to discuss the endless interactions that shape company culture, why it matters, and how Elie and his team are helping companies use AI to embed their culture into actualized, organization-wide behavior.
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541: Fixing the way that families hire, manage, and pay in-home care professionals with Jon Levinson
September 5th, 2024 | Season 14 | 42 mins 48 secs
We're joined by Jon Levinson, founder of Clara Home Care, to share his personal experiences with in-home care that led him to research the industry, identify the challenges, and co-found Clara, which is reimagining the way that home care is delivered in America.
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540: The Tech Behind Eslando’s Circular Fashion Revolution with Karishma Gupta
September 4th, 2024 | Season 14 | 37 mins 46 secs
We're joined by Karishma Gupta, the Founder and CEO of Eslando Circular Fashion, a company dedicated to changing the clothing industry through circular economy principles and textile recycling.
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539: Human-Centered Design and Innovation with Sheng-Hung Lee
August 22nd, 2024 | Season 14 | 41 mins 24 secs
Giant Robots On Tour introduces Sheng-Hung Lee, a designer and PhD researcher at MIT AgeLab. He shares his journey into design and emphasizes the evolving role of designers in addressing broader issues like climate change and aging. Sheng-Hung discusses practical applications such as smart homes for aging populations, the importance of designing for different life stages, and his views on well-designed and poorly designed products.