Podcasts by Getting2Alpha
Wanna innovate faster and smarter? Getting2Alpha pulls back the curtain on how breakthrough innovators bring their ideas to life - and delivers actionable tips to help you bring innovative ideas to life. You’ll meet luminaries who've created genre-defining hits - and rising stars who are shaping the future. Listen in and get inspired to innovate smarter and increase your odds of success.
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Schwark Satyavolu: The Future of Fintech from 2018-12-05T21:00
Schwark Satyavolu is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor at Trinity Ventures. After founding and growing several innovative startups in the fintech space - a journey that included...
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Siqi Chen: How to find vision/market fit from 2018-11-21T12:00
I first met Siqi Chen at a Lightspeed CEO dinner hosted by Jeremy Liew. We bonded over our mutual love of product design and fascination with customer engagement. Ever since, I’ve followed Siqi’...
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Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom: Playtesting and customer empathy from 2018-11-21T11:00
Tracy Rosenthal Newsom is an award-winning game producer and product leader who brought you hits like Rock Band and Dance Central. I worked with Tracy in the early days of bringing Rock Band to ...
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Jeri Ellsworth: Invention as a way of life from 2018-11-19T19:00
Jeri Ellsworth is a tinkerer, inventor, and entrepreneur who grew up fixing toasters and building race cars - then moved on to inventing the future of AR at Valve, CastAR and now Tilt Five. Jeri...
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David Vogler: Making media on the cutting edge from 2018-10-17T21:30:09
I first met David Vogler during the early, heady days of the Web, when we worked together to craft Nickelodeon’s first online presence. David went on to lead creative teams at Disney, Hearst, NBC ...
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Bob Moesta: Innovation Rules from 2018-10-02T21:30:08
Bob Moesta is the CEO and President of the Re-Wired group, a consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Bob and his team help large companies innovate with demand-side techniques and learn...
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Bob Moesta: From Nothing to Something from 2018-09-26T21:00:09
Bob Moesta is the CEO and President of the Re-Wired group, a consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Bob and his team help large companies innovate with demand-side techniques and learn...
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Michael John: Training the next generation of game designers from 2018-09-12T14:52:28
Michael John runs the Games and Playable Media masters program at UC Santa Cruz, where he and his team work to transform eager game students into industry-ready designers. Michael has a long and st...
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Brian Norgard: Simple, Fun and Useful from 2018-07-11T12:06:03
Brian Norgard is a serial entrepreneur - expert team-builder - and currently Chief Product Officer at Tinder, the massively successful dating app. Brian knows a thing or two about how to grow and e...
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Howard Rheingold: The subtle art of collaboration from 2018-07-03T20:00:04
Howard Rheingold is a colorful character in every sense of the word. From his psychedelic painted shoes to his extraordinary legacy of ground-breaking visionary books, Howard offers a unique and in...
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Casey Winters: Turning startups into rocketships from 2018-06-26T21:00:04
Intro Casey Winters is a growth specialist who understands how to blend qualitative and quantitative data to get massive and sustained results. Casey learned his craft at GrubHub and Pinterest, and...
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Jason Hreha: Where behavioral science meets product strategy from 2018-06-19T21:00:04
Jason Hreha is a product leader at Walmart, where he works across the company to run smart experiments and infuse the retail giant with effective digital design. Jason has an academic background in...
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Jeff Patton: Beyond story-mapping: the evolution of agile product design from 2018-06-12T20:00:04
Jeff Patton is well-known as the father of story-mapping - a visual way of mapping out and prioritizing your product backlog. Jeff is someone who deeply understands how teams come together to build...
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Steve Hoffman: The Process of Radical Innovation from 2018-06-05T21:00:02
Steve Hoffman is a force of nature - and an amazing human. Known affectionately as “Captain Hoff” Steve is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and CEO of Founders Space, an one of the world’s le...
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Karl Kapp: The surprising power of failure from 2018-05-29T20:00:02
Karl Kapp is a influential leader in the learning and development space. He wears many hats: a professor of Instructional Technology Professor at Bloomsburg University, author of 5 books, and a pop...
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Lee LeFever: The art and science of explanation from 2018-05-23T08:00:12
Lee LeFever and his wife Saachi pioneered a form of visual communication called “explainer videos.” They run Common Craft, an animated video production company - and a training spinoff, the Explain...
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The Future of Consumer Tech Investing from 2018-05-16T08:00:02
Jeremy Liew is a managing partner at Lightspeed, a global investment firm. Jeremy specializes in the consumer segement - including investments in Snapchat and The Honest Company. Join us and disco...
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Merci Victoria Grace: Product vision meets collaborative leadership from 2018-05-09T12:38:06
When I first met Merci Victoria Grace, she was fresh out of school and leading a wildly innovative game project. Fast-forward to today, she’s a talented & accomplished product manager, most rec...
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Gina Bianchini on the power of passionate interest networks from 2017-07-12T09:01:39
Gina Bianchini is a visionary entrepreneur with deep experience in social software and online communities. Gina co-founded the pioneering social platform Ning, and is taking what she learned from t...
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Jeff Atwood on building communities and customer feedback loops from 2017-07-05T05:14:19
Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow - he played a major role in bringing that influential Q&A network to life. Jeff now brings his community-building prowess to Discourse, a fast-gr...
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Josh Elman on the dynamics of online social experiences from 2017-07-05T05:13:44
If you want to get a feeling for Josh Elman’s career, just trace the history of modern social networks. Josh held increasingly senoir roles at RealNetworks, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Now he’...
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Steve Vassallo on the next chapter of design thinking from 2017-06-28T08:52:11
Steve Vassallo trained as a mechanical engineer, studied design thinking at Stanford, and worked at IDEO as a award-winning product designer. Now he’s an early-stage investor at Foundation Capital,...
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Tim Chang on the Rise of Transformational Tech from 2017-06-21T04:04:33
Tim Chang is a polymath, a longtime Burner, an accomplished musician, and a forward-looking VC who invests in the positive side of technology. As Managing Director of Mayfield, Tim blends his backg...
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Tony Ulwick outcome-driven innovation and jobs-to-be-done from 2017-06-14T09:21:29
Tony Ulwick, is one of the pioneers who brought us the jobs-to-be-done approach to product innovation. Tony’s breakthrough idea was to uncover and leverage latent customer needs - something he cal...
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Jared Spool is educating the next generation of UX designers from 2017-05-28T18:08:55
Jared Spool is a legend in user interface design. Through his pioneering consultancy, User Interface Engineering, he’s helped hundreds of teams create more usable and delightful software. Jared’s ...
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Jim Scheinman on the evolution of social software from 2017-05-17T03:01:39
Jim Scheinman is a lifelong entrepreneur who’s spent the last two decades working at the forefront of social software. As an early employee of Friendster and Bebo, Jim rode out the first big social...
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Jeff Veen on deep collaboration and building innovative teams from 2017-05-10T09:43:39
In the short history of web design, Jeff Veen is a true pioneer. In his work for Wired, Adaptive Path, Google, Adobe, and now True Ventures, Jeff has been pushing the boundaries of online publishin...
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Cindy Au on finding success by saying NO (to the right things) from 2017-04-23T20:53:26
As the former VP Community at Kickstarter, Cindy Au managed the fast-growing crowdfunding community through a major growth phase, and balanced the competing needs of campaigners and funders. Cindy ...
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Richard Garriott on systems thinking and meaningful challenges from 2017-04-21T17:30:13
Richard Garriott is a pioneering game designer, gifted world-builder second-generation astronaut, arctic explorer - and ever-inspiring creative force. I first met Richard when I was teaching onlin...
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Cindy Alvarez on customer research and iterative development from 2016-09-17T13:29:22
Cindy Alvarez is an expert in customer research and iterative development. She’s the author of Lean Customer Development, a hands-on guide for validating product and feature ideas. She's worke...
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Dan Olsen on rapid prototyping and smart MVP development from 2016-09-14T12:57:37
Dan Olsen is a seasoned product manager - and the author of the Lean Product Playbook, a soup-to-nuts handbook for doing smart product management with Lean principles. Dan runs the Lean Product &am...
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Teresa Torres on product discovery&re-imagining organizational change from 2016-09-07T07:08:18
Teresa Torres is a rising star in product management, and the author of the popular “Product Talk” blog. She's got an eclectic background in cognitive science, UX design, startup management a...
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Mike Sellers on super-powered mental models&the bright future of AR gaming from 2016-09-01T18:23:58
Mike Sellers is a pioneering social game designer turned academic. Long before World of Warcraft was a world-wide hit, Mike & his merry crew of innovators - including John Hanke, the driving fo...
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Irene Au on design leadership and experience-driven organizations from 2016-08-31T16:29:36
Irene Au is a design leader and UX expert with deep experience in team-building. She’s currently an operating partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with startup CEOs to make their designs gre...
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Matt Leacock on cooperative game design from 2016-08-31T16:11:31
Matt Leacock is a board game designer and UX expert. His first big hit, Pandemic, is a cooperative board game where you team up with others to save the world from virulent diseases. In his latest ...
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Kevin Kelly explains how to embrace the inevitable technology trends shaping our future from 2016-08-03T11:14:57
Kevin Kelly is is a multi-talented creator and deeply insightful futurist. His latest book, The Inevitable, lays out the twelve technological forces that will drive change over next thirty years a...
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Jeff Gothelf on Lean UX&enterprise change management from 2016-08-01T15:04:52
If you’ve ever struggled to get your team or organization to adopt Lean principles that really work - this interview is for you. Jeff Gothelf is a Lean UX expert who specializes in enterprise so...
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Dennis Crowley on whispering bots, crowd-sourced maps&the future of location-based experiences from 2016-07-29T19:14:35
Dennis Crowley is the founder and executive chair of Foursquare - a company whose location-based technology is used by Uber, Apple, and others. Dennis a pioneer in location-based social experience...
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Raph Koster on the nature of gaming from 2016-06-06T03:26:59
Raph Koster is a leading expert in social gaming worlds. He’s best known for his work seminal MMOs like Ultima Online and Star Wars: Galaxies - and his influential book “A Theory of Fun” - a must-...
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Paul Adams on the future of product design from 2016-04-06T09:14:25
Paul Adams is a Dublin-based designer, researcher and product manager with a storied career. He's played influential roles at both Google and Facebook — and now runs product at a fast-growing ...
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Tony Stubblebine on the future of online training from 2016-03-30T06:47:41
Tony Stubblebine is a product creator and entrepreneur who got his start working at Odeo and Twitter - and now runs an innovative training and education company called Coach.me. Tony has a unique p...
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Christina Wodtke on Design Thinking, Distributed Cognition&OKRs from 2016-03-23T08:45:11
Christina Wodtke is a designer, educator and author who’s worked for a string of iconic Internet companies - Yahoo, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Zynga. Now she teaches design thinking, story structure a...
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Mimi Ito on Minecraft and progressive learning from 2016-03-09T12:21:09
Today we’re talking with Mimi Ito - an educator and anthropologist turned startup founder. Mimi & her co-founders run an innovative education startup that offers summer camps, after school prog...
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Samuel Hulick on building better products with smart onboarding and iterative design from 2016-03-02T09:00:25
Samuel Hulick is a user onboarding expert who runs a popular website called useronboard.com where he deconstructs the initial experience of popular apps and services. I first met Samuel in Amsterda...
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Steve Portigal on active listening&leaving your world view at the door from 2016-02-15T15:06:53
Steve Portigal a world-class expert in customer research, and the author of Interviewing Users, a practical handbook oh how to get the most value from customer interviews. In this podcast, Steve pu...
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Designing Business with Erika Hall from 2016-02-02T16:01:48
Erika Hall is the co-founder of Mule Design, and the author of “Just Enough Research” - a handbook for improving design with smart, effective user research. Erika uses business goals to focus a pro...
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Getting2Alpha Season 1 Highlights with Amy Jo Kim&Kenneth Lim from 2016-01-05T19:18:58
Join us for a look back at the highlights and key themes of the first season of Getting2Alpha - the podcast about how creative people bring their idea to life.
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How does Jon Radoff build innovative games around iconic brands? from 2015-12-08T15:27:11
Jon Radoff is the CEO of Disruptor Beam, an independent studio building social games for beloved brands like Game of Thrones and Star Trek. Jon combines a deep love for strategy games with a knack ...
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Hiten Shah on the emotional side of building a business from 2015-11-30T17:29:38
Hiten Shah is a serial entrepreneur and startup advisor who loves to create and grow businesses. He's is the co-founder of two software-as-a-service companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics - and ...
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Sharpen your sword as a game designer with Eric Zimmerman from 2015-11-12T12:57:47
Peek inside the creative mind of Eric Zimmerman - a multi-talented game designer, educator and artist who never stops innovating. A self-described Play-Test Fundamentalist, Eric teaches at the NYU...
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Katherine Isbister on Games&Emotions from 2015-10-09T17:22:57
Katherine Isbister is well-known for her work exploring how emotions are evoked through interactive entertainment. She's an accomplished game designer and educator who works with students and ...
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Blair Ethington: High Fashion meets Augmented Reality from 2015-09-19T19:06:32
Blair Ethington is a product manager turned game creator - with a passion for numbers and a knack for innovation. At Crowdstar, she's VP of Covet Fashion - a innovative mobile game with over ...
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Erin Hoffman on social activism, learning games, and how designers shape the world from 2015-08-26T14:45:59
Erin Hoffman is a game designer and fantasy novelist - with a passion for social activism and projects with a purpose. She's currently lead game designer at GlassLabs, a Gates-foundation initi...
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Jesse Schell on Virtual Reality, Transformational Gaming, and juggling from 2015-07-21T18:42:23
Jesse Schell is a game designer, educator and product leader. His approach is fun, playful and enlightening - and his experience spans theme park design, interactive entertainment, educational gam...
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Chelsea Howe on love, desire and submission to ritual in gaming from 2015-07-21T18:15:57
Chelsea Howe wears many hats: indie game designer, community organizer of local game jams & QGCon, a Creative Director of Electronic Arts Mobile, creator of successful mobile games, and champi...
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Can a game bring Thoreau's Walden to life? from 2015-06-04T20:58:51
Tracy Fullerton is a player and maker of games. Her most recent game, “Walden,” puts you - the player - inside Thoreau’s Walden Pond experiment. Tracy runs the USC Digital Media and Games program -...
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Laura Klein on design-led growth hacking&customer development from 2015-06-04T14:43:36
Laura Klein a customer development ninja. She runs the “Users Know” website, and wrote UX for Lean Startups. In this episode, we explore design-led growth hacking, ninja user research techniques, a...
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Dan Cook on indie life, remote collaboration, and the magic of small groups from 2015-05-24T15:09:05
Dan Cook is a pioneering co-op game designer, co-founder of Indie game studio Spry Fox, author of the legendary Lost Garden website, and a truly inspiring and insightful guy. Dan has a deep underst...
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Dan Cook on indie life, remote collaboration, and the magic of small groups from 2015-05-24T15:09:05
Dan Cook is a pioneering co-op game designer, co-founder of Indie game studio Spry Fox, author of the legendary Lost Garden website, and a truly inspiring and insightful guy. Dan has a deep underst...
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Dan Cook on indie life, remote collaboration, and the magic of small groups from 2015-05-24T12:09:05
Dan Cook is a pioneering co-op game designer, co-founder of Indie game studio Spry Fox, author of the legendary Lost Garden website, and a truly inspiring and insightful guy. Dan has a deep underst...
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