Research Labs Podcast by SundayPyjamas
By SundayPyjamas
Stories of Entrepreneurs, Designers, Developers, Researchers, and Leaders sharing their perspectives to help us create a new vision for ourselves and our communities. Just this time, a more informed one.
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Research Labs Podcast by SundayPyjamasNov 21, 2022
#69 Dr Marco Besier on Problem Solving in Academics vs Startups, Rationalization Questions & Particle Physics
Featured Guest: Dr. Marco Besier, Founder, Web3 Developer Academy 📍Hesse, Germany ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2024
#68 Scott Curry on Building a Platform Business and Hardware Products for the Blockchain Ecosystem
Featured Guest: Scott Curry, Co-Founder, FlexCube
📍 California, USA ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#67 Daniel Steeves on The Evolution of Tech & Startups, FTX Saga & Project Planning
Featured Guest: Daniel Steeves, CEO, Advance Advisory 📍 Switzerland ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#66 Madhurima Sappatti on Burnout, Toxic Workplaces & Transforming Personal Struggles to Strengths
Featured Guest:
Madhurima Sappatti, Host, The Soul's Conquest Podcast
📍 India
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#65 Anton Huestegge on Being a Digital Nomad, German Culture, Growing a Painting Business, Trading Cards and NFTs
Featured Guest: Anton Huestegge, Digital Nomad & Entrepreneur 📍 Germany ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#64 Bradford Carlton on Elder Law, Fatherhood, Politics and Building Businesses
Featured Guest:
Dr. Bradford Carlton, Owner/Founder, Carlton Family Corporation
📍 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Message from Dr. Carlton:
Author, scientist, marketer, entrepreneur, husband, and father, Dr. Bradford Carlton is an accomplished businessman who makes dreams come true for his clients. Formerly a business law attorney, Dr. Carlton now focuses on using simple systems and processes to generate and multiply revenue for anyone willing to do what he says.
Links:
https://www.mayfloweradvising.com/corporate-consulting
About SundayPyjamas:
https://sundaypyjamas.com/
https://sundaypyjamas.substack.com/
Podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5v2xVS1uBZJ3hKXrGEMRr4
Disclaimer:
The information presented in this podcast episode is for general informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. For personalized legal guidance, it is strongly recommended to seek the expertise of a qualified professional in the relevant field.
Credits:
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Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#63 William Cook on Growing Online Communities
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Featured Guest: William Cook, CEO & Head of Growth, Advertise Your Server 📍 Melbourne, Australia
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Will is an online community manager who runs one of the largest community growth-based communities, helping thousands of communities large and small develop and grow. He's been in the community-building industry for over 5 years, specifically focusing on Discord Servers. He also has an interest in cyber security and legal issues surrounding communities. ... Credits:
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#62 Arcui Usoara on Embracing Neurodivergence with Grace
Dive into this podcast episode for a relaxed yet fascinating conversation with Arcui who has triumphed over ADHD, dyslexia, and emotional challenges to become an up-and-coming brand strategist. Listen in as he shares his journey, revealing how he turned these unique attributes into assets for professional success. The discussion covers their early struggles with attention and academics, as well as his exploration of graphic design and freelancing. A pivotal moment in a graphic design competition ignited Arcui's passion for using his skills to make a meaningful impact. The conversation then delves into entrepreneurship, with Arcui offering insights into embracing challenges and viewing failures as stepping stones. He stresses the importance of self-belief, learning from conversations, and adapting to technological changes in the creative industry. ... Featured Guest: Arcui Usoara, Founder & Brand Strategist, Laculus 📍 Hyderabad, India ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#61 Shmuel Eisenberg on Navigating Multiple Product Businesses, Startup Scene in Israel & Hungary
Featured Guest: Shmuel (Sam) Eisenberg, Co-Founder @ Design for Decks, Founder @ Read With Love
📍Budapest, Hungary
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Links:
https://www.designfordecks.com/
https://readwith.love/
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Credits:
Designed by the Research Labs Platform
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Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#60 Dijana Vetturelli on Organizational Change Through Conversation
Featured Guest: Dijana Vetturelli, Founder & CEO, qohubs 📍Zagreb, Croatia Links: Dijana at TedxZagreb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfJDwHKwXu8 Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#59 Oriol Bedia on UX Research, Conducting Customer Interviews | Typeform
Featured Guest: Oriol Bedia, Principal Product Designer, Typeform
📍Barcelona, Spain
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Message from Oriol: Hi! I’m Oriol 👋 I have 9+ years experience designing useful & delightful products end-to-end. I'm a Principal product designer @Typeform, prior to that I worked w/ scale-ups @Zalando, start-ups @GetYourGuide, and tech giants @Google.
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Links:
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-know-your-users-needs-2d24fb92a01e
https://uxdesign.cc/lipstick-on-a-ui-eb71d85c4a2f
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Credits:
Designed by the Research Labs Platform
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Created by Prathamesh Patel
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#58 Abhishek Dutta on Building a Design Agency, Team Management, Product Validation & Monetization
In this engaging podcast conversation, Abhishek shares his personal journey of self-discovery and entrepreneurship, offering valuable insights and inspiration. The episode begins with the importance of trying new things and persisting until one's true passion is found. Abhishek recalls a school experience where he realized his passion for technology surpassed his desire to perform on stage. Understanding basic economics in business is also emphasized, with a focus on sustainable revenue generation rather than valuing a company solely based on its worth.
Abhishek then delves into his early exposure to computers and the internet in Nagpur, which broadened his horizons and presented growth opportunities. Reflecting on his role as a business owner, he discusses the challenges he encountered and the significance of aligning team members with shared values. Throughout the conversation, Abhishek highlights his product, Rivista, a platform that empowers individuals and small businesses to showcase their work. He stresses the continuous process of discovery, gathering feedback, and the positive impact Rivista has on users by saving time and enabling effective project display.
Join Prathamesh and Abhishek in this enlightening podcast episode as they offer valuable lessons and inspiration for your own journey of self-discovery, entrepreneurship, and personal growth.
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Featured Guest: Abhishek Dutta, Founder, Team Co-Design & Co-founder, Rivista App
📍Nagpur, India
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Links:
https://www.teamcodesign.com/
https://www.rivista.app/
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Credits:
Designed by the Research Labs Platform
Produced by SundayPyjamas
Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#57 Serhii Leschenko on Startups in Ukraine, Business & Communication
Featured Guest: Serhii Leschenko, Communication Coach, Beverly English
📍Kyiv, Ukraine
📜 Message from Serhii: 'If you play with matches - you get burned.' - a quote from 'Pulp Fiction' I memorized over 10 years ago, around the same time when I was obsessively learning English to make up for missing 90% of English classes in my university. The phrase I mentioned testifies to one undeniable truth: life can be tough, but if you don't try your luck - you won't ever have a life worth living, even if filled with risk and danger to fail. Failing is an ingrained part of me: I fell when was creating an e-commerce start-up in 2014, but got up to bring it to fruition in 2019; I fell short trying luck doing digital business in China in 2020, had horrible personal issues after that, but got up to heal wounds accepting help and start afresh again in 2021. It's the year 2022 outside my window, I am a proud Ukrainian helping its fellow citizens with their business and career goals on an international scale. I feel alive and blessed to finally be doing what I love, and what I won't trade for any high-standing position in the corporate world. After all - it's all about Freedom for me. Authenticity is a part of it, of course. These 2 values are my harbor.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/@beverlyenglish
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-leshchenko-81371198/
Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform
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#56 Rushabh Shah on Financial Management for India | Ticmarc backed by CIIE, IIM-Ahmedabad
Featured Guest: Rushabh Shah, Founder & CEO, Ticmarc 📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India About Ticmarc: Recognized as one of the Top 4 Startups at CIIE, Ahmedabad, Ticmarc is a personal finance and expense management for groups and people in India. Links: https://ticmarc.com/ Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#55 Stephane Nasser on Mastering Your Fundraising Game | OpenVC
Featured Guest: Stephane Nasser, Co-founder, OpenVC
📍 France
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#54 Arun Nijhawan on Chronic Pain Treatment | Menda Health
Featured Guest: Arun Nijhawan, Founder, Menda Health
📍 New York, United States
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#53 Jaco Koenig on Web 3 for Kids, Overcoming Depression | Doshi App
Featured Guest: Jaco Koenig, Founder & CTO, Doshi App
📍 London, United Kingdom Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
#52 Shemmy Majewski on Diabetes Care with AI | Diabetes Lab, ex- CERN
Featured Guest: Shemmy (Przemysław) Majewski, Co-founder & CEO, DLabs.ai 📍 Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland ...
Links:
https://diabeteslab.org/
https://dlabs.ai/
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#51 Swapnil Puranik on Creativity in the Generative AI Era
In this episode, we hear the story of Swapnil's journey from childhood to becoming a successful marketing entrepreneur. Swapnil shares how college was a turning point for him, where he discovered his passion for brand building and advertising. After working in advertising for some time, he ventured out on his own and started his own agency, where he was able to explore the digital marketing wave.
In addition to sharing his experiences, Swapnil also delves into his latest passion - generative AI - and how it has the potential to transform productivity and automate many aspects of our daily lives. He assesses the impact of generative AI and shares his insights on how it will make people more productive.
This episode is a great listen for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, marketing, and the role of technology in shaping our lives and businesses.
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Featured Guest: Swapnil Puranik, Founder, Verb Your Brand
📍 Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Message from Swpanil:
Always be learning, always be growing. This has been my mantra for years - which has helped me achieve goals in personal and professional spheres of life.
I quit my full-time job months before pandemic, and that has led me to some of the most fulfilling days of my life, as well as some of the darkest days. They make good stories.
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Listeners of SundayPyjamas can use the code SPP25 to get a flat 25% off on their first month of subscription.
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Credits:
Designed by the Research Labs Platform
Produced by SundayPyjamas
Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#50 Jessica Ingrassellino on Notes & Nodes: The Story of a Violinist Engineer | HashiCorp, Anleiten
#49 Nick Linck on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Research | Founder @ The Residency, ex-IBM Research
In this episode, Nick walks us through his process of understanding AGI, which has become so much more relevant with the latest release of GPT-4 by Open AI. He also shares examples of how human-level AGI is considered to be achieved like the Coffee Test (Wozniak) or Turing Test. Prathamesh and Nick also briefly discuss brain-computer interfaces.
Furthermore, Nick shares his experience building his startup which aims to reimagine the college experience. The Residency runs tight-knit cohorts where you can live and build with friends, develop your passion and get funded.
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Featured Guest: Nick Linck, Founder, The Residency
📍 San Francisco, California, United States
... Chapters: 00:00 Episode Trailer 01:04 Welcome & Intro 03:56 Working in the ML/AI field, AI at IBM Research 09:37 Designing AI-driven Systems 15:11 Measuring AGI: AI vs Humans 22:58 Picking AI problems to solve 28:34 Thinking and Free Will 34:59 Learning Neuroscience to Build AI 37:09 Brain-computer Interfaces 43:42 Motivation Factors for AGI, Safety Concerns for Generative AI 45:58 Introducing The Residency: Nick's Startup 53:35 Co-founder, Customers, Investors, and Advisors 59:27 Business Model & Fundraising $7.2 Million 01:03:21 Google Launchpad, Mentorship at IBM 01:06:36 Closing Thoughts
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About Nick:
Nick worked as an AI researcher for 3 years at IBM before starting The Residency. He is excited to build a new college for the world where Artificial General Intelligence exists.
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Links:
https://www.livetheresidency.com/
https://twitter.com/_theresidency
Mentioned in the episode:François Chollet, On the Measure of Intelligence, 2019: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
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Credits:
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Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
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#48 Emil Lamprecht on Female Health & Accelerator Programs
Featured Guest: Emil Lamprecht, Researcher, Founder & CEO, Growth Mechanics
📍 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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About Emil:
Emil is the CEO of Growth Mechanics, a portfolio of small companies he and his team have developed with a specific eye on research, impact, and the enjoyment of doing business for the right reasons.
A serial founder from the world of media and ed-tech, Growth Mechanics began as an international accelerator design and operations firm, having run over 800 startups through more than 50 programs in 34+ countries. It now focuses primarily on its portfolio in the topics of women's health, and tech for good.
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Links:
https://growth-mechanics.com/
https://liveutifree.com/
http://interviewerr.com/
https://mintblue.com/
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Credits:
Designed by the Research Labs Platform
Produced by SundayPyjamas
Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#47 Spencer Shulem on The Art of Building Venture Backed Product Companies
From an early age, Spencer recognized the value of using and building high-quality products. With this spirit, he has built and scaled multiple successful apps and websites. BuildBetter, his current venture, helps product operation teams with product research and AI insights. He shares his product-building process - right from exchanging ideas to building MVP to getting detailed feedback from customers. With that, he has gathered a deep understanding of establishing a great relationship with investors and reflects on how he initially learnt how to make the ask for money.
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Featured Guest: Spencer Shulem, CEO, BuildBetter.ai
📍 New York, United States
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About Spencer:
Spencer is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating products that significantly enhance people's lives. He started his first business at 12, creating a virtual private server for World of Warcraft with a unique economy. At 13, he started a review video blog that turned into a website with over 1.3 million monthly hits, and he created his first mobile app called App List. At 14, he started Unparalleled Software and created two top-selling productivity apps featured in Mac|Life magazine. At 19, he founded WeDo, a life manager for students used at over 800 schools with 1.5 million users. He achieved impressive results with WeDo, including high retention, paid conversion, and LTV:CAC ratio. Before starting his current venture, BuildBetter, Spencer consulted for startups and served as VP/Head of Product for Seed - Series B companies.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and welcome
01:55 Early days and product philosophy
06:22 First venture-backed company
10:17 Dropping out of college vs not going to college
14:26 Learning how to ask for money
20:29 Building from scratch & solving problems
25:23 Idea validation & talking to users
30:51 When to tell product market fit
36:27 Creating products people love
41:25 Communicating the value proposition
44:47 Working with product teams
48:24 Investor & team communication
53:35 Founder-investor relationship
1:01:51 Failure & disagreements
1:05:16 Parents & value systems
1:10:07 Closing thoughts
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Relevant Links:
https://www.buildbetter.ai/
https://sundaypyjamas.com/
https://sundaypyjamas.substack.com/
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Credits:
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Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel
Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#46 Thorsten Höger on Multi-Cloud and Building Serverless Architecture (AWS Hero)
In the episode, Thorsten explains that multi-cloud adoption can be challenging due to the many moving parts involved. However, he emphasizes that the biggest challenge lies in ensuring compliance and governance across multiple clouds, especially in highly regulated industries. To achieve compliance, companies need to document every aspect of their operations, including security, networking, legal compliance, and risk mitigation strategies.
Creating documentation for each cloud provider can be time-consuming and costly and this can be a major hurdle for companies looking to adopt multi-cloud solutions. However, he also points out that multi-cloud adoption is often driven by cloud vendors and software providers who want to provide services across diverse infrastructures.
While the benefits of multi-cloud adoption can be significant, companies must be prepared to invest time and resources in ensuring that they are compliant with all relevant regulations.
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Featured Guest: Thorsten Höger, Cloud Evangelist & CEO, Taimos GmbH
📍 Stuttgart, Germany
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📖 Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
02:17 Early Days, Discovering Cloud and Transitioning into it
09:15 Regulatory Standards, Busting Common Cloud Myths
12:51 Explaining Multicloud to a Client, Challenges of Operating Multicloud
19:39 Who Benefits from Promoting Multicloud
26:06 Startups using Serverless
29:36 Working as a Consultant
35:36 Dealing with Uncertainty and Anxiety
40:58 Strategizing Cloud Projects
48:08 How can Teams Start Working with Cloud
50:20 What's New in Tech, Trying New Tech in Projects
54:30 Building Hobby Projects
57:33 Coming Soon in the German-speaking AWS community of Germany, Austria, Switzerland
59:27 Closing Remarks
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Highlights
- Cloud providers tend to push for multi-cloud because they know they might not be the primary cloud for all customers.
- Companies also use multi-cloud for diverse infrastructure and combining technology like VMware.
- Serverless architecture is becoming more popular and is beneficial for companies because it reduces costs and increases scalability.
- AWS CDK and other frameworks are available online but not all developers and companies are aware of them.
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📜 Message from Thorsten:
Thorsten Höger is an AWS DevTools Hero and AWS automation evangelist. He helps tech leads of SMEs to automate their AWS infrastructure using the Cloud Development Kit and he is also the maintainer of several open-source projects and one of the top three non-AWS contributors to the AWS CDK. In his spare time, he enjoys indoor climbing and cooking.
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🔗Links:
https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/thorsten-hoger/
https://taimos.de
https://podcast.taimos.de/
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Credits:
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#45 Scott Howard on Revenue Engines for Web3 Startups & Projects, Living through The '08 Crisis
Featured Guest: Scott Howard, Revenue Engineer, Factorchain AI
📍 Toronto, Canada
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📜 Message from Scott:
Scott is passionate about working with emerging innovative projects to drive value. Focused on go-to-market and shared value creation, Scott designs, builds, and delivers Revenue Engines.
Scott has past experience working with both Fortune 500 and Small Business; delivering business transformation through strategy, technology, and revenue operations. Scott has worked with the earliest-stage ventures helping them achieve first revenues, business strategy, and Seed funding since 2009. Since 2017, Scott has gone 'down the rabbit hole' on web3, and data as the future of commerce, founding or contributing at the earliest stages to multiple startups-projects across the industry. Whatever the technology paradigm, Scott believes Client-Stakeholder-Community Success is the value to be created.
Scott's greatest achievement is his brilliant, kind, and curious daughters.
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#44 Cadence Lam on Product Cultures across Singapore & the US (ex- Meta, Twitter, Airbnb)
Featured Guest: Cadence Lam, Product Manager, Gojek
📍 Singapore
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📜 Message from Cadence:
I am a Product Lead who works on data-driven frontend tech products and is currently based in Singapore. I have 7+ years of Product, Ops and Growth experience. Currently at Gojek. Formerly at Meta, Twitter and Airbnb. Previously based in NYC and Florida too.
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Produced by SundayPyjamas
Created & Hosted by PrathameshRR
Directed by Nishi Panchal & Bhavin Patel
Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP)
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#43 Ramkumar Venkataraman on Building Risk Management Systems (Arda, YC W22)
In this episode, Ram shares his story with Arda Finance. Ram and his co-founder started out building a complete fintech suite for crypto exchanges, but pivoted to focus on risk management after the Terra Luna crash. They're building a platform that includes data on potential risks and issues in crypto investments, helping customers make informed decisions. Ram chats about the slow process of onboarding enterprise customers, but says it's worth it in the end since these customers tend to stick around. The conversation touches on the idea of "infinite games," where the focus is on finding the truth and continuing the journey, rather than just winning. Right now, Ram's main priority is keeping the supply side of the marketplace happy as a step towards building a successful platform.
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Featured Guest: Ramkumar Venkataraman, Co-Founder & CTO, Arda Finance
📍 Chennai, India
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About Ram:
Ram was an engineer who built scalable systems from scratch in companies like Amazon, PayPal, Wise and a couple of startups. Most recently, he co-founded Arda (Y Combinator W22) and is building risk management systems for web3, targeting institutions and high net-worth individuals.
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Website: https://www.arda.finance/
Job openings: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ardafinance/jobs/
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#42 Brad Bethell on Creating Hardware Products
Featured Guest: Brad Bethell, Chief Marketing Officer, FlexCube
📍 California, United States
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#41 Esther Yip on Empathy Driven Design
Featured Guest: Esther Jingxin Yip, Product Designer, Shopify
📍 Singapore
📜 Message from Esther:
Esther believes in the value of design as a facilitative force for good. Coming from a background in social design, systems engineering and analytics, her design philosophy is grounded in humility and trust-building, and fuelled by a strategic understanding of the systems that surround us. Her previous work experiences include GovTech Singapore, IBM Interactive Experience, Alibaba, as well as being an independent UX consultant for startups. Wherever she goes, she strives towards building a more caring and inclusive world through the lens of design.
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#40 Kshitij Patel on Life & Startups at IIT Kharagpur
Featured Guest: Kshitij Patel, Co-Founder, Rogan & Student, IIT Kharagpur
📍Ahmedabad, India
Message from the Guest:
A student at IIT Kharagpur, A serial entrepreneur building a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the beauty and wellness industries. Previously worked on start-ups in the travel, fashion, and marketing space, as well as worked with Hike, SnapDeal, and ZebPay in a product management role.
Timestamps:
00:00 Overview
3:20 Intro
6:07 IIT Perception in School Days
10:25 Starting A Startup
16:27 Comedy Club
21:29 Startup Idea
26:08 Finding a Co Founder
31:15 Building Product
36:37 Carving your own path
45:44 The Value of Entrepreneurship
50:26 Practicing Meditation
54:04 Retrospect
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#39 Patrick Prioletti on Psychedelics & Microdosing
Featured Guest: Patrick Prioletti, Founder, Psily
About the Guest:
I'm a former ML engineer, cybersecurity/privacy researcher and energy policy researcher turned app builder. My goal is to increase access to novel health and therapeutic tools and build products that can make a real impact in someone's life while improving humanities collective understanding of new health paradigms.
📍Syracuse, New York, US
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Links:
https://psily.io/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7457631/pdf/10.1177_2045125320950567.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422001956?via%3Dihub
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2820%2930282-8
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.470657v1.full.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01811-4#tab320
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50
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#38 Samantha Balajadia on Pursuing UX Design | University of Toronto
Featured Guest: Samantha Balajadia, Product Design Intern, Dialogue
About the Guest:
Samantha is a Product Designer completing her Master of Information at the University of Toronto, specializing in User Experience Design. She is currently a Product Design intern at Dialogue, Canada’s leading virtual care provider, where she works closely with designing digital experiences for their internal and external stakeholders (clients).
Before that, she did her undergraduate in Communication, Culture, Information, Technology, Cinema Studies and Psychology, and held positions in design research at her university.
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#37 James Carleton on Enterprise Design Systems | Sr UX Designer at PayPal
Let's take a deep dive into enterprise-level design systems - how they're built, maintained and organized for a team of 100+ designers globally. You can learn more about frontend libraries and their usefulness to develop and launch MVPs fast, yet, knowing when your design system needs customization and care can be crucial to building a successful product in the long term. Plus, this is your chance to get to know James better and how he's significantly impacting the design community worldwide.
Featured Guest: James Carleton, Senior UX Designer - Design Systems, PayPal
📍 San Jose, California, United States
📜 Message from James:
I ♥ design. I'm a UX designer + family man in silicon valley. Currently, I'm obsessing over design systems at PayPal and mentoring on ADPlist.org.
Book a mentoring session with James: https://adplist.org/mentors/james-carleton
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#36 Shaun Gold on Connecting Startups & Investors, Roasting Pitchdecks and Mental Wellness
As you dive deeper into the minds of a polymath, through this episode, find out more about how Shaun manages to do - screenwriting, helping startups with venture capital connections, building a 23K subscriber mental health newsletter - all at once.
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Featured Guest: Shaun Gold, The Polymath, YouTopian Journey, OpenVC, and more.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
About the guest:
Shaun Gold is the true definition of a polymath. He is a lifelong entrepreneur, 2x best-selling author, international speaker, advisor and super-connector to start-ups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter.
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#35 Umang Jasani on Climate Change
A high-level conversation and thinking on the climate change phenomena, what it really means and what can be done on the individual level to contribute to a more sustainable future. Going deeper, we understand how net zero buildings work and also how a Bangalore-based startup called Smarter Dharma is bringing innovation by building a data-driven SaaS platform to optimize buildings to be greener at the design stage itself.
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Featured Guest: Umang Jasani, Assistant Manager - Sales and Marketing, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited
About the Guest:
Chemical Engineer, currently into Sales and Business Development @ GFL. Climate & Sustainability enthusiast. Passionate about fighting climate change. Enjoys Storytelling, Community service and physics.
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#34 Matthew Burrell on Building Clipchamp and Making Video Creation Easier within Microsoft
In the landscape of complex video creation and editing tools, we talk with Matthew about how user-centric and intuitive products are built. Ease of use enables more people to create through a faster learning curve. If you're into product, also look for Matthew's story from inclination in UX and transitioning into product management, building a high-impact product like Clipchamp.
Clipchamp is an in-browser video creation platform, targeting non-professionals and non-creatives. It was recently acquired by Microsoft to empower more creators and make the video creation and editing experience within Microsoft easier.
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Featured Guest: Matthew Burrell, Product Manager, Clipchamp - Microsoft
📍 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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https://clipchamp.com/en/blog/microsoft-acquires-clipchamp-to-empower-creators/
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#33 Sudhanshu Choudhary on Cross-Border Banking | Salt YC W'22
When you're building a global startup, you know that you are not just getting into creating the product or understanding your customers. It's much more than that. Focusing on cross-border banking challenges in India, we go through the various hurdles and possible solutions that founders face while dealing with international payments.
Salt is a B2B cross-border payment & compliance platform and a part of the Y Combinator W'22 batch.
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Featured Guest: Sudhanshu Choudhary, Associate Director, Salt (YC W'22)
📍 Bengaluru, India
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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salt
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#32 Anna Asgaraly on Starting Your Product Design Career | Coinbase, ex-IBM
For those of you looking to break into UX and product design right after grad school, it's time to tune into this light-hearted conversation to get a fresh eye perspective on the product design career path. Anna shares some key takeaways from her time, previously at IBM and currently at Coinbase. Apart from that, she also opens up about how she thinks about pursuing her passion in illustration and photography.
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Featured Guest: Anna Asgaraly, Product Design Intern, Coinbase
📍 Toronto, Canada
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#31 Priya Ravinder on Building Microsoft Surface and Windows Hello
In this conversation, Priya shares her adventurous journey so far and inspires us to fall back on our bravest moments to keep expanding our potential. While enjoying working on product strategy and innovation, she shares how she works with her teams and customers, with various products like Microsoft Surface and Windows Hello.
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Featured Guest: Priya Ravinder, Senior Product Strategy Manager, Microsoft
📍 Toronto, Canada
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#30 Jason Frasier on Product Thinking at LinkedIn
The way products are built has evolved a lot since the 2000s. Jason takes us on a quick tour down the memory lane on the evolution of product design, the tools and frameworks in use. He also shares his journey at LinkedIn, and how his team contributes to the product which has empowered and enabled many of us in our professional lives.
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Featured Guest: Jason Frasier, Principal Product Designer, LinkedIn
📍 California, USA
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#29 Rita Roushdy on Tuning into Your Frequency
It is one thing to know yourself and another to put your deepest beliefs and desires into action. Manifest your dreams into reality by aligning your mindset and actions with your vibrational frequency. ⚡
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Featured Guest: Rita Roushdy, Manifestation Coach, Abundance on Demand
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#28 Dany Tulumidis on The Web3 Ecosystem
Getting started with web 3 can seem like an uphill battle, but it doesn't have to be. Turns out, if you are already a part of web 1 or web 2, it's easy to transition and embrace web 3 in your workflows. If you're not, there are ways to get started right away too. Let's understand what the web 3 ecosystem is all about.
Featured Guest: Dany Tulumidis, Web 3 / Web Developer
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#27 Kris Ward on Being Productive, Not Busy
There are times when you feel out of touch, when you sense your unproductivity at work, and when you're not so in control of your time. Then maybe it's about time to consider reassessing and rethinking the way you organize your time and get work done. Through her book, Kris helps us understand how we can get more of our time back while also accomplishing our daily goals.
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Featured Guest: Kris Ward, Author, Win The Hour Win The Day
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#26 Chad Maghielse on Scaling Ecommerce Brands
Building a profitable business and creating a brand in the consumer markets can sound daunting. Chad set out on this adventure with his pet supplies e-commerce brand which he has now sold and exited at 7-figures.
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Featured Guest: Chad Maghielse - Investor, Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Maghielse LLC
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#25 Dr Jonathan Fowler on Data Strategy for Business
Making sense of all the data in your business can be overwhelming, and you might need to go beyond the data visualizations and fancy charts to get those insights. Business intelligence is more than the tools that facilitate it and when done right can help you make accurate predictions and deploy data-driven decisions.
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Featured Guest: Dr Jonathan Fowler, Founder & CEO, Logicle Analytics, LLC
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#24 Dwij Vaishnav on Green Energy
Clean technologies to produce energy have been around for a while now. With a bird's eye view, we cover different technologies like solar, batteries, hybrid systems and green hydrogen. Some of these for instance, solar and EV, have seem to become mainstream now although the infrastructure that viably supports it has a lot of catching up to do.
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Featured Guest: Dwij Vaishnav, Senior Engineer (Projects), Gujarat Gas Limited
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#23 Ron Voller on Exploring the Universe
Ever wondered how the universe was created? Discoveries like the Big Bang have a story in themselves and the people behind uncovering it are an integral part of it since they brought those theories to the world. In his latest book, Ron shares a fictionalised version of that story and discusses some of these insights in this episode.
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Featured Guest: Ron Voller, Author & Producer
Books:
1. Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang (Springer Praxis 2021)
2. The Muleskinner and the Stars (Springer 2015)
Learn more: www.ronvoller.com
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#22 Yaseen Ghazal on Marketing for Web3
Marketing for crypto and web 3.0 looks a lot different today than traditional marketing and the way marketing efforts in web 2.0 were led. In this episode, Yaseen helps us understand these differences while also giving us a sneak peek into the daily life of a CMO.
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Featured Guest: Yaseen Ghazal, CMO, Mercurian Crypto Technologies
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#21 Marco Yim on Interviewing in Tech
During an interview, communicating the value you can bring to the table is the most impactful aspect of the hiring process. With a focus on tech interviews, Marco helps understand the nuances and how to better perform in your interview calls which can lead to your next role in tech.
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Featured Guest: Marco Yim, Founder and Communications Training Expert, Extempra
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#20 Ken Wimberly on Building a Meaningful Life
Leading a thoughtful life makes it enjoyable. A meaningful life is one where each day you wake up with new energy, fresh ideas and enthusiasm. In this episode, Ken shares his thoughts on building a family, organizing your work around your life, and finally shares some of his fun adventure trips across the world. Having built multiple businesses, he shares his lessons on pursuing ideas and the challenges faced while building software.
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Featured Guest: Ken Wimberly, Founder, Legacy of Love Inc
Resource for Entrepreneurs: Startup Resources Doc
Ken's Businesses:
Legacy Journal: https://legacyjournal.app/
Laundry Luv: https://www.laundryluv.com/
KW Net Lease Advisors: https://netleaseexperts.com/
Keller Williams Abilene: https://www.kwabilene.com/
Wimberly Group Real Estate: https://wimberlyre.kw.com/
HighRidge Coaching: http://highridgecoaching.com/
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