Social Good Podcast
By Soo Jung Han
This podcast covers the intersection of social issues and technology. I interview high impact leaders in the nonprofit and business world and explore what it means to be a good citizen in today's world ㅡ of the internet, society and the planet ㅡ and the challenges we face on the road to becoming more socially conscious citizens.
Social Good PodcastNov 04, 2021
00:00
40:33
#16 Alana Karen of Google on leading teams
Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the early days at Google and leading the Google Fiber and Search platform teams. She also discusses finding work-life balance and documenting stories of women in tech along with their successes and challenges in her book The Adventures of Women in Tech.
Links:
twitter.com/alanatkaren
www.alanakaren.com
www.adventuresofwomenintech.com
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twitter.com/alanatkaren
www.alanakaren.com
www.adventuresofwomenintech.com
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Nov 04, 202140:33
#15 Shriya Nevatia of On Deck on inspiring leaders
Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welcoming the second cohort of the On Deck Catalyst program, learnings from the first cohort including hitting ceilings and growing from Build Weekend and catering to an ambitious and younger audience.
Links:
twitter.com/shriyanevatia
www.beondeck.com/catalyst
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www.beondeck.com/catalyst
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Sep 07, 202135:43
#14 Catherine Winfield of CZI on designing for social impact
Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions and creating opportunities for students to thrive in education design. She gives us the scoop on what inspires her day-to-day design work, her philosophy on design leadership, measuring success in a nonprofit plus building Along, a tool for remote learning during the pandemic.
Links:
twitter.com/winfield_c
www.catherinewinfield.com
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www.catherinewinfield.com
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Sep 07, 202136:21
#13 Julian Rachman on investing in data science and human innovation forward companies
Julian Rachman (@julrach) discusses Two Sigma Ventures’ investment in Remote including the benefits of remote hiring in companies like managing data governance and healthcare across countries. He also touches on data-driven companies working to improve everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative machine learning principles and open source data projects, as well as data privacy issues vs the democratization of data science.
Aug 16, 202141:33
#12 Taylor Burton of Till Financial on creating a collaborative family banking app
Taylor Burton (@TBurton86) discusses creating smarter spenders through a collaborative banking app for kids. He talks over (3:05) how his experience with his first lease motivated him to create an app that increases your credit history, (15:45) creating an app that releases financial agency from parent to child, (17:58) partnering with banks to hand off teenagers in the Launch Offers Market after Till Financial, (25:15) raising a $4M seed round and launching the app, future goals and more.
Links:
twitter.com/TBurton86
twitter.com/Tillfinancial
tillfinancial.io
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twitter.com/Tillfinancial
tillfinancial.io
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Aug 12, 202142:09
#11 Atin Batra of Twenty Seven Ventures on investing in edtech and the future of work
Atin Batra (@batraatin) talks about reevaluating the current education system through investing in edtech startups that cultivate different modes of learning including peer-based learning and cohort-based education; (21:50) receiving funding from the government and nonprofits to sponsor students from underserved populations; (26:52) investing in a startup that helps you learn languages through their chrome extension; (34:53) and lessons learned from working at Q Venture Partners, a venture firm based in Hong Kong investing in hardware startups.
Links:
twitter.com/batraatin
twitter.com/TwentySevenVC
27v.vc
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twitter.com/batraatin
twitter.com/TwentySevenVC
27v.vc
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Aug 11, 202140:38
#10 Sharath Kuruganty of Shoutout.so and Product Hunt on community building
Sharath Kuruganty (@5harath) talks about gaining experience from building Naval Ravikant’s website, helping startups launch on ProductHunt, tips for building in public and his journey building @shoutoutso_ from inception to launch and gives tips on how to grow your customer list with Shoutoutso’s Wall of Love.
Links:
twitter.com/5harath
twitter.com/shoutoutso_
www.shoutout.so
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Jul 22, 202133:51
#9 Juan Salas of Celerative on growing a distributed software team
Juan Salas (@jmzlx) of Celerative (@celerative) discusses his route to growing a distributed software team, the turbulence he has faced during Covid and an unexpected growth trajectory since 2020. Juan lays out what makes a remote team really work.
Links:
twitter.com/jmzlx
twitter.com/celerative
www.celerative.com
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twitter.com/celerative
www.celerative.com
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Jul 11, 202135:46
#8 Paige Hewlett of Margo on companies embracing unique visions in their marketing
Paige Hewlett (@paigehewlett) of Margo (@call_margo) talks about the importance of the customer experience and journey in marketing and how everything ties back to the customer and meeting them where they are. In this episode, Paige touches on companies addressing diversity and inclusion in marketing to represent the communities they serve and creating an effective feedback loop between listening to customers and creating meaningful content.
Links:
twitter.com/paigehewlett
twitter.com/call_margo
www.callmargo.com
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twitter.com/call_margo
www.callmargo.com
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Jul 09, 202138:09
#7 Mustafa Khundmiri on building RapidFeeds and creating a collaborative blogging platform
Mustafa Khundmiri (@mkhundmiri) describes his early journey and experience from building RSS feeds for websites at RapidFeeds, competing with FeedBurner and moving on from a data crash and his time at Plugmatter in the 2010’s building early-on plugins and providing WordPress support. Mustafa also provides perspective on social media today and building Wordew, his new collaborative blogging platform.
Links:
www.twitter.com/mkhundmiri
gumroad.com/l/cold-email-that-works/
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www.wordew.com
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www.twitter.com/mkhundmiri
gumroad.com/l/cold-email-that-works/
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Jun 24, 202158:07
#5 Iris Guo of Neutrify on achieving food-based sustainability
Iris Guo (@IrisGuoo) shares her journey as the founder of Neutrify informing consumers about decreasing their carbon footprint through food choices. She describes her current journey managing a growing team, seeking partnerships with grocery stores and food startups and exploring different ways to align people with health consciousness through her product including nutritional information, purchase history and food carbon footprint. Iris also touches on her journey at OpenMeal working with influencers to increase distribution and her experience with adapting to remote work.
Links:
www.linkedin.com/in/iris-guo/
devpost.com/software/neutrify
linkt.ree/irisguo
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devpost.com/software/neutrify
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Jun 08, 202142:25
#4 Kurt Daniel of Ubersmith on leading an ethically conscious company
Kurt Daniel (@kurtodaniel) of Ubersmith reflects on his experiences at Kearney, Microsoft and MongoDB leading to his role as CEO of Ubersmith, a subscription business management solution for the cloud. Kurt discusses the evolution of the cloud services market, shares his insights on effective leadership styles and proactive ways to incorporate social responsibility in the workplace and be an inclusive employer today.
Links:
www.ubersmith.com
www.twitter.com/kurtodaniel
www.linkedin.com/in/kurtdaniel/
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May 28, 202152:56
#3 Gemma Bull and Tom Steinberg call for reform in grantmaking in their book Modern Grantmaking
Gemma Bull (@GemmaCBull) and Tom Steinberg (@steiny) address the challenges that modern grantseekers and grantees face in the grant application process including website accessibility, an open and equitable application process and open data for the grantmaking process. Drawing on their own experience, they wrote Modern Grantmaking to address the lack of advice in the field that can cause the preventable mistakes for grantmakers and pain and upset for grantseekers.
Links:
www.moderngrantmaking.com
www.twitter.com/GemmaCBull
www.twitter.com/steiny
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May 22, 202135:28
#2 Chloe Duckworth of Valence Vibrations on creating a product for neurodivergent people
Chloe Duckworth (@duckworthchloe) comes on to talk about her work creating a product to help neurodivergent people communicate at Valence Vibrations. She got her start doing an internship at Stanford during high school and participating in a contest run by David Eagleman of Neosensory (@neosensory). Valence Vibrations is an iPhone app that operates on the Neosensory wristband to augment emotional perception for people with neurological conditions like autism through vibrations. Chloe discusses the onboarding training process for Valence Vibrations, current clinical trials to create more nuanced emotions and plans to launch in 2022.
Links:
www.chloeduckworth.com
www.valencevibrations.com
www.instagram.com/valencevibrations
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www.chloeduckworth.com
www.valencevibrations.com
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May 19, 202142:15
#1 Philip Toussaint of Ecopreneur Media on utilizing media for environmental activism
Philip Toussaint (@ecopreneurphil) comes on the first episode of the show to talk about his work with Ecopreneur Media. We have an excellent discussion covering: his mission for leveraging media (particularly video content) as a platform for environmental activism, working with brands to create incentivized activism, sustainable fashion as a hot industry, the appeal for environmentalism in marketing for brands, the rising role that Gen Z plays in environmentalism, the definition of an ecopreneur, shifting priorities for brands to embrace environmentalism and more.
Links:
twitter.com/ecopreneurphil
twitter.com/EcopreneurM www.ecopreneurmedia.com
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twitter.com/EcopreneurM www.ecopreneurmedia.com
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Apr 30, 202141:52
April 12, 2021
Apr 12, 202100:54