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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291: Intrapreneurial Streak (Heena Purohit)
September 25th, 2018 | Season 7 | 42 mins 5 secs
Heena Purohit, Product Manager of IBM Watson IoT, discusses how they are tailoring custom solutions with IoT data, building business acumen for better product managing, and iterating at scale.
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290: Usage Native (Mike Trotzke)
September 11th, 2018 | Season 7 | 36 mins 20 secs
Mike Trotzke, CEO of Cheddar, talks about the future of billing models, when is the right time to do seed investing, and finding your value pricing metric.
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289: Capture Community Early (Jameson Toole)
September 3rd, 2018 | Season 7 | 35 mins 38 secs
Jameson Toole, founder of Fritz, discusses AI & Machine Learning on mobile, the process & ideology of launching a product from scratch, and the business of developer tools.
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288: Pursuing Customer Delight (Yoav Shapira)
August 27th, 2018 | Season 7 | 51 mins 25 secs
Yoav Shapira, an Engineering Manager at Facebook with a long history in Boston startups, discusses early technology choices for startups, balancing product needs/wants with technical limitations, the role of Capital-D 'Design', and common startup advice.
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287: Disruptive, Exponentially-Innovative, 10x Videos (Sarah Cooper)
August 20th, 2018 | Season 7 | 30 mins 19 secs
Sarah Cooper, comedian, speaker, and author of "100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings", joins Chad to discuss management burnout, the creative process, and her latest book.
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286: A Million Boxes at a Time (Stephan Ango)
August 14th, 2018 | Season 7 | 47 mins 37 secs
Stephan Ango, Co-founder and Head of Product at Lumi, discusses merging creative and scientific mindsets in industrial design, the logistics of packaging, developing custom solutions by slowly replacing 3rd party tools, and building your ideal culture while balancing operational needs.
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285: Deep Counting (Jerry Talton)
August 6th, 2018 | Season 7 | 47 mins 52 secs
Jerry Talton, leader of the Machine-Learning Services team at Slack, talks about picking up after a failed startup, design-thinking for machine learning, and important lessons from managing.
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284: Bringing Vision to Robots (Clara Vu)
July 23rd, 2018 | Season 7 | 41 mins 29 secs
Clara Vu, co-founder & VP of Engineering of Veo Robotics, shares her story getting into the world of robotics, designing perception systems for industrial robots, and 'First-Principles Thinking' in all aspects of business.
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283: Overcoming Awkward Data (Joe Ferris)
July 16th, 2018 | Season 7 | 41 mins 14 secs
Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot, joins Chad to discuss Data Engineering, what it is, when you need it, and some of the challenges thoughtbot has faced while using it.
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282: Robot as a Platform (Tim Enwall)
July 2nd, 2018 | Season 7 | 38 mins 28 secs
Tim Enwall, CEO of Misty Robotics, discusses designing, building, and selling a fully autonomous robot for developers.
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281: Reconnecting With Development (Robby Russell)
June 25th, 2018 | Season 7 | 49 mins 33 secs
Robby Russell, VP of Engineering & Partner at Planet Argon, discusses considering remote work for an agency, strategies for leading a dev team, defining focus for an agency, and the results of the 2018 Rails Hosting Survey.
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280: Design at the Program Layer (Greg Storey)
June 18th, 2018 | Season 7 | 47 mins 19 secs
Greg Storey, founder of Airbag Industries & Executive Director of Design at USAA, discusses the blurring of personal and company identity, helming a budding design group, "safe agile", what it means for design to 'have a seat at the table', and sustainable pace within an agency.
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279: Building a Lifelong Brand (Alex Friedman)
June 11th, 2018 | Season 7 | 24 mins 53 secs
Alex Friedman, co-founder of LOLA, discusses overcoming stigma, launching new products, measuring success, and brand values.
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278: The 'Lights On' Moment (Sam Moorhouse)
June 4th, 2018 | Season 7 | 28 mins 4 secs
Sam Moorhouse, creator of Global Code, discusses the importance of mentorship and how he established a software engineering summer education program in Ghana.
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277: How Do We Work Together? (Michael Sheeley)
May 28th, 2018 | Season 7 | 53 mins 26 secs
Michael Sheeley, former co-founder of Runkeeper, talks about his struggles with scaling, experimentation with prices, finding ways to connect and work together as a larger society, and innovation in health care.
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276: Enable and Serve (Chris Heivly)
May 22nd, 2018 | Season 7 | 47 mins 31 secs
Chris Heivly, author & entrepreneur in residence at Techstars, discusses the early days of MapQuest, Raleigh as a burgeoning tech city, and building up new tech communities.