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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Product Roadmap - Teikametrics
April 20th, 2020 | Season 9 | 50 mins 44 secs
Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, about the history of the platform, staying focused on the needs of your customers, shifting product requirements to meet your ideal buyer-personas, and their newly-minted formal product roadmap.
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Product Roadmaps
April 6th, 2020 | Season 9 | 41 mins 48 secs
Chad and Lindsey discuss their experiences around, and the pros and cons of, product road maps.
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Giant Robots v1
March 30th, 2020 | Season 9 | 18 mins 3 secs
Chad and Lindsey announce Giant Robots' latest evolution as a long-form startup series, following three startups over the course of a year. Throughout the season we will celebrate the wins, learn from the setbacks, explore how they approach high-concept issues, and truly capture the arc of a year in the life of their startup!
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357: Sustainable Growth Hacking (Anuj Adhiya)
March 23rd, 2020 | Season 8 | 50 mins 54 secs
Anuj Adhiya, VP of Growth at Jamber, discusses 'growth' vs 'growth hacking', growing value through your north-star metric, A/B testing, and sustainability.
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356: Start From the Beginning (Scott Miller)
February 24th, 2020 | Season 8 | 46 mins 39 secs
Scott Miller, CEO of Dragon Innovation and co-founder of Bolt, discusses building out manufacturing from a prototype, sustainability & environmentalism, and working with thoughtbot to validate a software idea.
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355: The New Hospitality (Maria Loughlin)
February 17th, 2020 | Season 8 | 35 mins 24 secs
Maria Loughlin, VP of Engineering at Toast, discusses restaurants adaptation to new technology, her approach to building and supporting a team, and providing better business opportunities & education to their clients.
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354: Securing Opportunity (Shelly Bell)
February 10th, 2020 | Season 8 | 36 mins 11 secs
Shelly Bell, CEO & Founder of Black Girl Ventures, discusses working to open up your messaging, what makes for a good pitch, and the current state of the investment landscape.
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353: Built off of Hustle (Ashlee Ammons & Kerry Schrader)
February 3rd, 2020 | Season 8 | 45 mins 4 secs
Ashlee Ammons & Kerry Schrader, co-founders of Mixtroz, discuss the pain points in attending networking events, building an app from a non-technical / non-entrepreneurial background, and share some of their personal challenges along the way.
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352: How Stories Are Told (Matt Daniels)
January 27th, 2020 | Season 8 | 39 mins 50 secs
Matt Daniels, journalist at The Pudding, discusses journalistic editorial funding models, translating ideas through visual communication, their content-creation processes, and measuring 'success' in creative work.
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351: The Forecast Calls For Goals
January 21st, 2020 | Season 8 | 37 mins 50 secs
Chad & Lindsey welcome in the new year at thoughtbot, discussing actually having a budget, setting corporate goals, and the rise and fall of 'Use Your Best Judgement' as thoughtbot's principle zero.
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350: Beyond Transit (Tiffany Chu)
January 13th, 2020 | Season 8 | 31 mins 51 secs
Tiffany Chu, CEO of Remix, discusses the different entities involved in transportation initiatives, pivoting to service an unanticipated user-group, and utilizing open-source in civic tech.
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349: Better Information (Lokesh Dani)
January 6th, 2020 | Season 8 | 34 mins 11 secs
Lokesh Dani, founder of Xopolis, discusses researching the future of work, democratizing opportunity in the labor market, and focusing on the user experience.
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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.