Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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348: Tailor to the Experience (Karen Rubin)
December 30th, 2019 | Season 8 | 44 mins 49 secs
Karen Rubin, CRO at Owl Labs, discusses embracing playful aspects of your product, tailoring their marketing focus, managing growth in a B2B e-commerce company, the landscape of remote work, the complexities of building and selling a physical product, lessons learned from launching products at Hubspot, and building a team with strong female leadership.
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347: Deliver Better Services (Robin Carnahan)
December 9th, 2019 | Season 8 | 29 mins 5 secs
Robin Carnahan, Director of State & Local Practice at 18F, discusses introducing tech into government as the Missouri Secretary of State, facilitating tech-education within the federal government, and the types of needs to which 18F responds.
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346: Empower Users (Geoff DiMasi)
December 2nd, 2019 | Season 8 | 41 mins 4 secs
Geoff DiMasi, founder of Punk Ave. & Apostrophe, discusses his drive to build a CMS, balancing maintaining a service company while building a product (as well as the thought-process of spinning out a product into its own company), the Philadelphia tech-scene, and transitioning to a remote company.
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345: Conviction in the Problem (Alex Cornell)
November 25th, 2019 | Season 8 | 43 mins 3 secs
Alex Cornell, co-founder of Cocoon, discusses opportunity cost, prototyping methodology, having design skills as a founder, designing for intuition, and being invested in the problem you want to solve.
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344: Facilitating Innovation (Heather Ames)
November 18th, 2019 | Season 8 | 32 mins 25 secs
Heather Ames, co-founder and COO of Neurala, discusses automated visual-inspection, balancing research with deployment, the challenges of productizing AI, and finding the right product/customer fit.
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343: A True Movement (Pariss Athena)
November 4th, 2019 | Season 8 | 27 mins 45 secs
Pariss Athena, Hiring & Product Team Member at G2i, creator of #BlackTechTwitter, and founder of Black Tech Pipeline, shares her journey from never hearing about code to viral awareness campaign creator, as well as discusses visibility, finding value on twitter, and life online with thousands of followers.
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342: The People Stuff (Jennifer Dary)
October 28th, 2019 | Season 8 | 45 mins 19 secs
Jennifer Dary, founder of Plucky, rejoins the podcast to discuss the rarity of listening, what it feels like to have a six year-old company, and conducts a 1:1 for managers with Lindsey & Chad.
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341: From Survival to Growth (David Kaplan)
October 21st, 2019 | Season 8 | 36 mins 40 secs
David Kaplan, head of engineering at Policygenius, discusses joining an established company in a leadership role, factors for long-term success, choosing Flutter over React Native, and challenging assumptions when building out an MVP.
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340: Accessible, Ethical, Inclusive (Cat Noone)
October 14th, 2019 | Season 8 | 32 mins 6 secs
Cat Noone, CEO of Stark, shares an overview of accessible design, dreams for shaping a more accessible future, helming custom support with a small team, and her motivation to create.
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339: Process Goals (Andrew Steele)
October 7th, 2019 | Season 8 | 38 mins 16 secs
Andrew Steele, Olympic Medalist & Head of Product at DNAfit, discusses providing actionable wellness utility from DNA data, goal setting, "blame culture", localization, and his time at the Beijing Olympics.
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338: Automating SaaS (Bryan Helmig)
September 30th, 2019 | Season 8 | 39 mins 53 secs
Bryan Helmig, cofounder & CTO of Zapier, discusses extending tooling to small businesses through API integration, scaling, early marketing successes, and the future of automation.
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337: Outcomes, Not Outputs (Adam Scroggin)
September 23rd, 2019 | Season 8 | 42 mins 18 secs
Adam Scroggin, CEO of CardBoard, discusses user story mapping, consulting vs product work, the importance of goal setting, product market fit, and his favorite tools & services for building web apps.
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336: There's No Manual (Chris Coyier)
September 16th, 2019 | Season 8 | 40 mins 36 secs
Chris Coyier, cofounder of CodePen, creator of CSS-Tricks, & host of Shop Talk Show, candidly shares how a weekend project turned into a full-time business, aspirations for the future, and areas for improvement.
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335: Discipline & Creativity (Jonathan Cutrell)
September 9th, 2019 | Season 8 | 30 mins 52 secs
Jonathan Cutrell, host of Developer Tea and Senior Engineer at Clearbit, discusses the history of the podcast, motivation for creation, learning to say 'no', and what it means to truly be 'remote-friendly'.
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334: Preserve and Extend (Devon Zuegel)
September 2nd, 2019 | Season 8 | 41 mins 23 secs
Devon Zuegel, Product Manager at GitHub, discusses her transition from researcher to product manager, and shepherding the funding, communication, and tooling of open source sustainability.
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333: Do Fewer Things Better (Matt Massicotte)
August 26th, 2019 | Season 8 | 38 mins 21 secs
Matt Massicotte, creator of Chime, discusses the landscape of text editors, the complexities of writing your own parsers, building a new product while building a new family, and alternative app platform & pricing models.