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About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot's Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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473: Noula with Noelle Acosta
May 4th, 2023 | Season 11 | 38 mins 42 secs
Noelle Acosta is Founder and CEO of Noula Health, a data-driven platform that uses personalized hormonal health data to deliver tailored care.
Victoria talks to Noelle about helping patients with uteruses to better understand their bodies by providing them with hormonal health data that's unique to them and providing them with individualized care they deserve at their fingertips through a virtual app.
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472: Interlock Capital with Neal Bloom
April 27th, 2023 | Season 11 | 39 mins 36 secs
Neal Bloom is a Managing Partner at Interlock Capital, a community of founders, investors, and subject matter experts.
Victoria talks to Neal about what he finds attractive about startups and companies he's excited about, out of all the pitches he receives, how many he gets to say yes to, and when working with a team, what he uses to manage information and contacts for investors.
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471: Blossm with Brian Feretic
April 20th, 2023 | Season 11 | 32 mins 57 secs
Brian Feretic is the Founder of Blossm, a community marketplace to buy, sell, and trade plants.
Victoria talks to Brian about how coming up with the concept happened, getting started in a very scrappy way and then filling in gaps, and opening up the app to have full marketplace functionality with buying, selling, and trading capabilities.
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470: CTO Excellence in 100 Days with Etienne de Bruin
April 13th, 2023 | Season 11 | 40 mins 5 secs
Etienne de Bruin is Founder of 7CTOs and Author of CTO Excellence in 100 Days.
Victoria talks to Etienne about his book, founding 7CTOs, and keeping your technology sustainable by inspiring and motivating technology teams and people to work together and build complex systems.
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469: Harpoon with Dominic Holt
April 6th, 2023 | Season 11 | 46 mins 26 secs
Dominic Holt is CEO of harpoon, a drag-and-drop Kubernetes tool for deploying any software in seconds.
Victoria talks to Dominic about commoditizing DevOps as a capability, coming up with the idea for drag and drop just thinking through how he could do these things in a visual and intuitive way, and using Kubernetes as a base for Harpoon.
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468: DiME with Jennifer Goldsack
March 30th, 2023 | Season 11 | 51 mins 14 secs
Jennifer Goldsack is CEO of Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), the professional home for digital medicine. It is a global nonprofit with a mission to advance the ethical, effective, equitable, and safe use of digital technology to redefine healthcare and improve lives.
Victoria talks to Jennifer about using new products and solutions to solve some of the most pressing and persistent challenges in healthcare, measuring success by how well they are caring for people every day and not by how good their products or how many they use on any given day, and how DiME can improve the way that we identify, manage, cure, and support people in a lifetime journey of health and disease.
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467: Healthie with Cavan Klinsky
March 23rd, 2023 | Season 11 | 25 mins 48 secs
Cavan Klinsky is Co-Founder and CTO of Healthie, a scheduling engagement and EMR platform used by healthtech organizations who seek to build long-term relationships with their clients.
Will talks to Cavan about providing an underlying infrastructure that other digital healthcare companies use to be able to focus on patient care and not reinventing the technology wheel by providing a scheduling platform, an electronic medical record, and a patient engagement solution–all available via API, via an API-first design as well as through fully branded interfaces. Healthie lets companies get to market faster, scale with less headaches, and provides effective patient care much cheaper than if they tried to build everything themselves.
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466: Finding Center with Dr. Stephanie Smith
March 16th, 2023 | Season 11 | 49 mins 24 secs
Dr. Stephanie Smith is Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the Finding Center app, the first intuitive eating classes app.
Victoria, along with surprise co-host thoughtbot's Director of Product Strategy, Jordyn Bonds talks to Dr. Stephanie about creating the Finding Center app to give people who are struggling with their bodies and their relationship with food a way to follow a plan, understand a path forward, and be able to see themselves getting healthier.
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465: Playroom with Michele Veldsman
March 9th, 2023 | Season 11 | 30 mins 53 secs
Michele Veldsman is Director of Neuroscience R&D at Cambridge Cognition and Founder and CEO of Playroom, an invitation-only secure social network for families.
Victoria talks to Michele about the premise of Playroom and its goal of giving parents a network, a safe social community where parents are able to know and easily communicate with people associated with their children and also provide specific options to maintain boundaries when it comes to their privacy and safety, the challenges families face in raising kids and maintaining a career, and new features she wants the app to include, such as finding nearby restrooms while out and about.
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464: IVP with Zack Willis and Eric Liaw
March 2nd, 2023 | Season 11 | 38 mins 19 secs
Eric Liaw and Zack Willis are part of IVP, a leading venture firm with a 43-year history of partnering with entrepreneurs who are undaunted on the path to innovation.
Will talks to Eric and Zack about what has made IVP so long-lasting in the Venture Capital industry, how they help companies' portfolios, and the accomplishments they are most proud of.
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463: EmergeOne with Aarish Shah
February 23rd, 2023 | Season 11 | 31 mins 45 secs
Aarish Shah is the Founder of EmergeOne and Projected.ai and host of Off Balance and Nothing Ventured Podcast.
Will talks to Aarish about having the venture capitalist money idea and having that "aha!" moment that it could work, what drives him and having a purpose of helping others, and using his podcast to teach lessons that he's learned along the way.
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462: StoryGraph with Nadia Odunayo
February 16th, 2023 | Season 11 | 43 mins 27 secs
Nadia Odunayo is the Founder and CEO of The StoryGraph, a new website and app for avid book readers because life's too short for a book you're not in the mood for. The StoryGraph helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood, favorite topics, and themes.
Victoria talks to Nadia about coming up with a product based on the concept of mood, what you're in the mood for to read, i.e., this book made me feel this way. How do I find a book that makes me feel similar? They also talk about keeping yourself open to feedback, the ability to flow and change direction, and developing a reviewing system that keeps biases in check.
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461: PSYONIC with Dr. Aadeel Akhtar
February 9th, 2023 | Season 11 | 34 mins 1 sec
Dr. Aadeel Akhtar is the Founder and CEO of PSYONIC, a company whose mission is to develop advanced prostheses that are affordable for everyone.
Victoria talks to Dr. Akhtar about the gaps in the market he saw in current prosthetic ability, advancements PSYONIC has been able to make since commercialization, and essential principles and values when you were building out the team.
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460: Frontrow Health with Irfan Alam
February 2nd, 2023 | Season 11 | 48 mins 40 secs
Irfan Alam is the CEO of Frontrow Health, a startup with a mission to finally put Americans in the front row of their own healthcare.
Will and Victoria talk to Irfan about his background in business strategy and development for healthcare companies, how he went about searching for and building the perfect team, and how he started the culture of Frontrow Health on a level where there is balance and people want to join because it has a good culture.
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459: Adobe Express with Kasha Stewart
January 26th, 2023 | Season 11 | 50 mins 41 secs
Kasha Stewart is the Director of Growth Engagement at Adobe Express.
Victoria talks to Kasha about finding advocates that encourage her to chase problems, getting more women into product development and why it's essential to bring different perspectives into this area, and ways to bring connection between the end users and customers, engineering teams, and the rest of the organization to the business.
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458: Cofertility with Lauren Makler
January 19th, 2023 | Season 11 | 37 mins 27 secs
Lauren Makler is Co-Founder, and CEO of Cofertility, a human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience.
Victoria talks to Lauren about tackling the access issues around egg freezing and donation and hoping to bring down the cost, leaving a company like Uber and starting her own business, and figuring out a go-to-market approach and what that strategy should look like.