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Send us a textMarty Cagan is a Silicon Valley-based product executive with more than 20 years of experience with industry leaders including eBay, AOL, Netscape Communications and Hewlett-Packard. Marty is the author of the book “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love” which presents techniques for creating winning products. Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, and advising, Martin was most recently the original leader of Product and Design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company's global e-commerce trading site. Marty now works with technology companies from across the globe on improving both innovation and velocity. Support the show
Marty Cagan was ten years into his engineering career when he began questioning the purpose of his work. Frustrated with the products he was building, he wondered why they were necessary—but soon, he realized that asking "why" was the job of the product manager, not the engineer. So, he became one. Not just any product manager, but a leading expert in the field. Now, through Silicon Valley Product Group, Marty helps companies transform the work behind their products to build meaningful results. Marty Cagan is a well-known product management expert, author, and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). With decades of experience, he has held leadership roles at companies like eBay, Netscape Communications, and HP.In this episode, Dart and Marty discuss:- Key elements of top product teams- Best practices in product management- Capabilities and responsibilities of a product manager- The core principles of product culture- How processes can kill companies- 3 non-negotiables for product managers- And other topics…Marty Cagan is a well-known product management expert, author, and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). He is best known for his book Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love, which is widely regarded as a key resource in product management. With decades of experience, including leadership roles at companies like eBay, Netscape Communications, and HP, Marty has a deep understanding of what it takes to build successful products. He is recognized for his emphasis on creating empowered product teams, focusing on solving customer problems, and building a strong product culture.Marty is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Stanford University Executive Institute. His latest book, Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model, explores how successful product organizations operate and provides insights on transforming companies into ones that consistently deliver great products. Resources mentioned:Transformed, by Marty Cagan: https://www.amazon.com/Transformed-Becoming-Product-Driven-Company-Silicon/dp/1119697336Empowered, by Marty Cagan: https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-Ordinary-People-Extraordinary-Products/dp/B08MV6VRGY Inspired, by Marty Cagan: https://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Marty-Cagan-audiobook/dp/B07BDQVC45 The Song of Significance, by Seth Godin: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Significance-New-Manifesto-Teams/dp/B0BWPSHCXS Loved, by Martina Lauchengco: https://www.amazon.com/Loved-Rethink-Marketing-Tech-Products/dp/B09WFRB5TX Connect with Marty:www.svpg.com
Marty Cagan is a Silicon Valley-based product executive with more than 20 years of experience with industry leaders including eBay, AOL, Netscape Communications and Hewlett-Packard. Marty is the author of the book “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love” which presents techniques for creating winning products. Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, and advising, Martin was most recently the original leader of Product and Design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company's global e-commerce trading site. Marty now works with technology companies from across the globe on improving both innovation and velocity. Support the Show.
What does it take to lead organizations through change and innovation? In this episode, Rich sits down with Christie Tarantino-Dean, CEO of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). With over 30 years of experience in association management, Christie has also served as President and CEO of the Association Forum of Chicagoland and Executive Director of the Academy of General Dentistry. She shares insights on the importance of relationships and offers valuable lessons for leaders aiming to innovate and create lasting value.---------Key Quotes:“I do think because people that I've seen either that I've worked with or that I've known professionally that focus so much on the next thing, they may miss those opportunities to learn, so they're prepared for the next thing. I see a lot of people who moved to the next thing, and then they're on the bigger stage. And they're hit with a moment where they have no background or experience and they don't know how to manage through that. And it can be really detrimental to their career moving forward. So I'm a big believer in not focusing two and three steps ahead.”“I've actually started blocking a whole week a quarter to be able to think more. I'm always thinking about the future, but really having dedicated uninterrupted time to think.”“If you're not upsetting about 20 percent of your membership, you're probably not doing enough to advance the organization into the future.”“We've worked on constructive dissent, people saying what they really think in the meeting and being comfortable with that so that we don't have the, “Well, I knew that was gonna be a bad idea,”, later on. But at the end of the day, someone has to own it and you're not going to get everybody 100%--maybe you can get 80% of the way there and then you can assess whether it was the right decision and, and adjust along the way.”“At the end of the day, it is impossible to make everybody happy. And so we try to focus on the good of the whole and really understanding how we can have the biggest impact and that is focusing what we do.”“Stepping in not to step over, but to support the team.”“Reaching our vision and mission as an organization means we need to continually change and evolve in order to serve. And if we really want to make that impact, the status quo is going to move you along that road to irrelevance really quickly.”“I think the strongest teams come out of moments of crisis where everybody is supportive and steps up. And it's maybe not their job, but they're there to help each other.”Practice Makes Profit: How to use SWOT analysis correctly to be a valuable planning tool League of Strategic Minds [listener question] How can I explain the difference between strategy and tactics to my team? Winsights: Ideas for AdvantageJim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape Communications said, “In the fight between the bear and the alligator, the outcome is determined by the terrain. Each animal presents a fearsome figure on its own turf, but the bear will flounder in a swamp, while the alligator surrenders many of its advantages when forced to fight on dry land. In a battle where the two are evenly matched, the victory will go to the one fighting on home terrain.”What terrain is most advantageous for you, for your team, for your product and service offerings, and how can you move your competitor into that terrain more often?--------Time stamps:(01:07) Deep Dive Interview with Christie Tarantino-Dean(47:55) Practice Makes Profit(51:47) League of Strategic Minds (53:51) Winsights, Ideas for Advantage ---------Links:Submit a question for Rich to the League of Strategic Minds Christie Tarantino-Dean on LinkedInRich Horwath on LinkedInRich Horwath on YouTubeRich Horwath on InstagramStrategic Thinking Institute WebsiteInc. Magazine's Top 4 book for 2024: STRATEGIC BookNew executive development platform: Strategic Fitness System Sign up for Rich's free Strategic Thinker Newsletter[Subscribe to the Podcast] On Apple PodcastsOn Spotify
James Everingham, co-founder and VP of Engineering @ Lightspark, joins our podcast to share his best tools for scaling yourself down – not up – as an engineering leader. He discusses his latest career move shifting down in scale and how that impacts your risk tolerance as a leader. We also cover some of James' favorite leadership methods, including the Socratic method, principle-based decision-making, and creating narratives as a product / eng org goal-setting tool, plus how he's employed those tools effectively throughout his career. We also address navigating the balance between process & anti-process, approaches to product planning & finding PMF, and adapting your communication style to work within a smaller vs. large org.ABOUT JAMES EVERINGHAMJames Everingham (@jevering) is co-founder and VP of Engineering at Lightspark. Lightspark is building core infrastructure on the Lightning Network. Most recently he was Vice President of Engineering for Novi (Meta) and co-creator of Diem. Previously, James was the Head of Engineering at Instagram. James has led many world-class engineering teams throughout his 35-year career as a manager, entrepreneur, and technology developer. At Yahoo, he was Vice President of Engineering for Yahoo media properties after acquiring Luminate, an interactive image technology company he founded. Other previous roles include CTO and founding team member of LiveOps, Senior Director of Engineering at Tellme (acquired by Microsoft), and Senior Director of Engineering at Netscape Communications, where he was responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. Before joining Netscape, James held engineering and management positions at Oracle and Borland International."We had a great story in our head of like if we can simply make money flow or value flow fast and free frictionlessly around the world like a lot of good is going to happen but then that's the ending. That's the happy ending. Like, what are the chapters that we're going to write in between to get there? The first one was, 'Well, we're going to build this new infrastructure. Let's start getting it out there and getting it quickened in an area where it's already accepted.' And that's what we did. You know, that was the first one and we worked backwards from that. They're trying to make the story happen. They're not trying to make a list of tasks happen. And I think that's a really important distinction.”- James Everingham SHOW NOTES:James' latest experience scaling down in his career (2:44)Increasing your risk tolerance as an eng leader (5:15)Surprising ways eng leaders operate in a smaller org vs. a larger org (7:16)Optimizing communicating patterns when scaling down as a leader (10:23)Strategies for creating high-impact conversations within teams at a small org (12:12)How to use the Socratic method effectively as an eng leader (14:04)James' framework for anchoring decision-making principles (17:05)Why focusing on customer problems before business problems is a key principle (19:30)Layering the Socratic method approach & principle-based decision making (21:43)Tips for implementing these approaches early on & scaling them up (24:31)The trap of “process” & knowing when / where to introduce processes (25:41)Navigating the balance between complete process & anti-process (27:59)Deconstructing James' approach to product planning & goal setting (29:51)How James introduced the product planning narrative @ Lightspark (34:15)Advice for newcomers looking to identify & share a product narrative (36:38)Rapid fire questions (38:31)LINKS AND RESOURCESHow to Scale Yourself Down — Not Up — as a Leader - An article outlining the narrative goal setting framework that James discusses in the episode.Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam Grant's book about the benefit of doubt and how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/
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Blog: https://billatnapier.medium.com/cryptography-fundamentals-elgamal-encryption-and-signature-2de5f16b1127 ElGamal methods: https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal Introduction In research, we build on the shoulders of giants, and Taher Elgamal is one of the giants of cybersecurity. His work on Netscape led to the creation of SSL, and for which much of our Web security is still built on. Along with this, he published this paper in 1985 [here]: It was true classic, and has been reference over 12,500 times. Within the paper, Tahir outlined an encryption methods and a digital signature method. His ‘base' was to take John Napier's logarithm, and make them discrete. This discrete element meant that we only dealt with positive integer values, and where we worked within a finite field. This field was defined by a prime number (p). While the core ElGamal encryption method was overtaken in its usage by RSA, and then by ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography), the signature method was adopted as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) by NIST. This has since scaled into ECC to become ECDSA, and which is used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Tahir studied electrical engineering in the late 1970s at Stanford University. It was there he met Marty Hellman and who helped him spark an interesting in cryptography. He received his PhD in 1984 and it was Marty introduced him to Paul Kocker at Netscape Communications. Together, Paul and Tahir worked on a method to implement end-to-end encryption, and published SSL 3.0 in November 1996: Examples are at: https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal The ElGamal Method Befre we start we need to look at some of the basics of logarithms and where: {g^a}^b is g^{ab} and: g^a . g^b = g^{a+b} To make these discrete to add (mod p) in our operations and where p is a prime number. This constrains our integrates with a finite field, between 0 and p-1. In the ElGamal method, Initially, Bob creates his public key by selecting a g value and a prime number (p) and then selecting a private key (x). He then computes Y which is: Y=g^x (mod p) His public key is (Y,g,p) and he will send this to Alice. Alice then creates a message (M) and selects a random value (k). She then computes a and b: a=g^k (mod p) b=y^k.M (mod p) Bob then receives these (a and b), and then uses his private key (x) to decrypt the values and discover the message: M=b/(a^x) (mod p) With the divide by (a^x) we basically take the inverse of (a^x) mod p, and then multiply. The operation works because: ElGamal and Signatures With ElGamal signing, Alice has a public key (y,g,p) and a private key of a. She then takes a message m and creates a signature (r,s). This signature can then be checked by Bob. With ElGamal, Alice selects a generator (g), prime number of p and a private key of a. Her public key is then (y,g,p) and where y is: y=g^a (modp) To sign a message (m) we generate a secret random number (k) and we must make sure: gcd(k,p−1)=1 Next we compute: r=g^k (mod p) Next we compute: k^{−1} (mod p−1) and then: s=k^{−1}(h(m)−ar) (modp−1) The signature is then (r,s). Bob verifies the signature by computing two values: v1=y^r.r^s (mod p) and: v2=g^{h(m)} (mod p) If v1 is equal to v2 the signature has been verified. The proof is given here: https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal/el_sig2 While, ElGamal signing is not used these days, its method were applied into the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and which was since been coverted into the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) method. Converting from discrete logs to elliptic curves In discrete logs we convert from: Y=g^a (mod p) to Y=a.G and where we have a exponential for discrete logs we have: Y = {g^a}^ b is equivalent to: Y=a.b.G and for a multiplication we have Y=g^a.g^b (mod p) = g^{a+b} (mod p) In elliptic curves we convert the multiplication to a point addition: Y = a.G + b.G = (a+b) G Converting from John Napier's Logarithms to Elliptic Curve Methods Around ten years ago, discrete log and RSA methods were riding right. But both of these methods have struggled with…medium.com This exponential becomes point multiplication, and multiply/division becomes point addition/subtraction. ElGamal and ECC But, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) methods are just everywhere just now. With ECC, we take points on a defined curve — such as Curve 25519 — and then perform point addition and subtraction. So how can we convert the ElGamal method into ECC? First, Alice first creates a private key (a) — and which is a random scalar value — and a public key (aP) — and which is a point on the elliptic curve. P is the base point on a curve. Alice's public key will then be: A=aP If Bob wants to send Alice an encrypted message (M), he creates a random value (k) and uses her public key (A) to produce a cipher message of: K=kP and then the next with: C=kA+M and where M is matched to a point on the elliptic curve. Now Alice receives (K) and (C), and computes: S=aK and then computes the message with: M=C−S As C and S will be points on the elliptic curve, this will be done with a point subtraction operation. Overall this will recover the original message as: C−S=kA+M−aK=kaP+M−akP=M The following is come Go code to implement this [taken from here]: package mainimport ( "fmt" "os" "go.dedis.ch/kyber" "go.dedis.ch/kyber/group/edwards25519" "go.dedis.ch/kyber/util/random")func ElEncrypt(group kyber.Group, pubkey kyber.Point, message []byte) ( K, C kyber.Point, remainder []byte) { // Embed the message (or as much of it as will fit) into a curve point. M := group.Point().Embed(message, random.New()) fmt.Printf("Message point:t%sn" , M.String()) max := group.Point().EmbedLen() if max > len(message) { max = len(message) } remainder = message[max:] // ElGamal-encrypt the point to produce ciphertext (K,C). k := group.Scalar().Pick(random.New()) // ephemeral private key K = group.Point().Mul(k, nil) // ephemeral DH public key S := group.Point().Mul(k, pubkey) // ephemeral DH shared secret C = S.Add(S, M) // message blinded with secret return}func ElDencrypt(group kyber.Group, prikey kyber.Scalar, K, C kyber.Point) ( message []byte, err error) { // ElGamal-decrypt the ciphertext (K,C) to reproduce the message. S := group.Point().Mul(prikey, K) // regenerate shared secret M := group.Point().Sub(C, S) // use to un-blind the message message, err = M.Data() // extract the embedded data return}func main() { M:="Testing" argCount := len(os.Args[1:]) if (argCount>0) {M= string(os.Args[1])} suite := edwards25519.NewBlakeSHA256Ed25519() // Alice's key pair (a,A) a := suite.Scalar().Pick(suite.RandomStream()) A := suite.Point().Mul(a, nil) fmt.Printf("Private key (Alice):t%sn" ,a.String()) fmt.Printf("Public key (Alice):t%sn" , A.String()) fmt.Printf("nn--- Now Bob will cipher the message for Alicen") fmt.Printf("Bob's message:t%sn",M) m := []byte(M) K, C, _ := ElEncrypt(suite, A, m) fmt.Printf("nBob cipher (K):t%sn" , K.String()) fmt.Printf("Bob cipher (C):t%sn" , C.String()) fmt.Printf("nn--- Now Alice will decipher the ciphertext (K,C) with her private key (a)n") M_decrypted, err := ElDencrypt(suite, a, K, C) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error: " + err.Error()) } fmt.Printf("nOutput:t%s",string(M_decrypted))} A sample run is: Private key (Alice): 7182fa86214b1672f36113d139b2f84ca6acbbf1dbe2202e2ad99665e4fdac00Public key (Alice): 31dfde321f1f56228feeacaeff9550c3d489ee5fd3e4e9d2e48fd41cfd9f09f6--- Now Bob will cipher the message for AliceBob's message: Testing 123Message point: 0b54657374696e6720313233aca5a2888970256a3bb93cde2898f95fcdfd96efBob cipher (K): c794b9c278298dc3abd64b0e3af62a2f7390c6c51c13a491930dea6b2dbc6ce4Bob cipher (C): 27ac77843effff5b723abe990e7175ba0c7659da0f5aec98421f0a89b78f2d82--- Now Alice will decipher the ciphertext (K,C) with her private key (a)Output: Testing 123 And there you go, ElGamal using ECC: https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal/go_elgamal_ecc Partical Homomorphic Encryption with ElGamal With ElGamal public key encryption we have a public key of (Y,g,p) and a private key of (x). The cipher has two elements (a and b). With this, Bob selects a private key of x and the calculates Y= g^x (modp) for his public key. We can use it for partial homomorphic encryption, and where we can multiply the ciphered values. With this we encrypt two integers, and then multiply the ciphered values, and then decrypt the result. https://asecuritysite.com/homomorphic/go_el_homo https://asecuritysite.com/elgamal/elgamal_ps2 g^a . g^b = g^{a+b} Other applications There are many other applications of the ElGamal method, including Authenticated Encryption and in Zero Knowledge Proofs. The days of using discrete logarithms are past, and most of the implementations use elliptic curve methods now. And, so, unlike many others, Tahir did not patent his method, and this allowed others to use it freely.
In research, we build on the shoulders of giants, and Taher Elgamal is one the giants of cybersecurity. His work on Netscape led to the creation of SSL, and for which much of our Web security is still built on. His paper on "A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms" is true classic, and has been referenced over 11,600 times. Within the paper, Tahir outlined an encryption method and a digital signature method. His ‘base' was to take John Napier's logarithm, and make them discrete. The signature method was adopted as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) by NIST, and which has to become ECDSA, as used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Elgamal methods is now being used in many new areas of privacy, including within homomorphic encryption methods. Tahir studied electrical engineering in the late 1970s at Stanford University. It was there he met Marty Hellman and who helped him spark an interesting in cryptography. He received his PhD in 1984 and it was Marty who introduced him to Paul Kocker at Netscape Communications. Together, Paul and Tahir worked on a method to implement end-to-end encryption, and published SSL 3.0 in November 1996. Join this "fireside chat", as Taher recalls his past, and also looks to the future.
TODAY'S GUEST Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with early-, mid-, and late-stage startup CEOs. She is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods, practices, processes, leadership, talent, and quality. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating the strategic importance of design within technology companies, having built and led the entire User Experience and Design teams at Google, Yahoo!, and Udacity. She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the design of the internet's first commercial web browser. Irene also teaches yoga at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto where she is among the teacher training program faculty and is a frequent author and speaker on mindfulness practices, design, and creativity. An adjunct lecturer at Stanford University, she teaches product design in the mechanical engineering department. Irene also serves as a trustee for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design. Irene authored the definitive O'Reilly book, Design in Venture Capital, and her popular essays can be found on Medium. She has been featured in WIRED magazine, Fast Company magazine, CommArts magazine, and on the cover of Mindful magazine. EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we talk about: Developing listening skills as an introspective child, and how feeling like an outsider helped her develop those skills. Her electrical engineering studies, and her transition into looking at how technology influences society and people and how we live. Her time at Netscape, and tying together the products for a consistent look and feel across a suite of products that came out at the time called Netscape Communicator. Her move from Netscape to Yahoo!, and what went wrong for Yahoo! as a company trying to find its way. Her time at Google as we look at it from all angles. What was the state of design at Google before she joined and what were the changes she tried to implement as she brought human-centered design and practices to Google? Hiring strategies, staff training, and how design workshops ultimately became the Design Sprint at Google. What is design and what is a designer? And the role of the designer in venture capital. I think my greatest takeaway from this interview is this sense of hope that someone like Irene is able to walk into these very "techy" cultures and produce real change. And all it takes is really showing the value of the work and being willing to engage and promote better practices. I think Irene will be an inspiration to many non-engineers who find themselves in heavy engineering cultures and want to make a contribution. This conversation with Irene is one of many weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, best-selling authors, designers, makers, scientists, impact entrepreneurs, and others who are working to change our world for the better. So please follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe. And now, let's jump right in with Irene Au. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS [5:54] Life in the Present [7:08] Early Childhood Driving Forces [9:40] A Journey to Design [13:20] Entering Netscape [16:00] The Challenges of the Early Internet [19:23] A Transition From Netscape to Yahoo! [22:58] The Infrastructure of Yahoo! [30:14] Good Design Versus Bad Design [34:04] The Winners and the Failures [39:48] Infusing Design With Google [45:55] Design Thinking Workshops [52:13] A Sideways Career Move [58:35] What is Design Today? [1:05:26] The Human Meaning of Design [1:08:58] A Short Sermon EPISODE LINKS Irene's Links
Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, working with early, mid, and late-stage startup CEOs. She is dedicated to raising the value of design and user research within software companies through better methods, practices, processes, leadership, and talent. Through her mentorship of the next generation of designers, she helps companies build an empathetic understanding of user needs, inspiring and informing product design and experiences. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating the strategic importance of innovation within technology companies, having built and led the entire User Experience and Design teams at Google, Yahoo!, and Udacity. She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the design of the internet's first commercial web browser. For ten years, Irene taught yoga at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto, where she also is among the teacher training program faculty. She is a frequent author and speaker on mindfulness practices, design, and creativity. She is an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University and teaches Product Design in the mechanical engineering department. Irene is also a trustee for the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design. Irene authored the definitive O'Reilly book, Design in Venture Capital, and her popular essays can be found on Medium. In addition, she has been featured in Wired magazine, Fast Company magazine, CommArts magazine, and on the cover of Mindful magazine.Irene graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her Master's Degree from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, Irene Au shared great insights on The Psychology of Design: How Human Behaviour and emotion influence Design Decisions. We started the episode by defining the intersection of psychology and design and what fundamental principles designers should consider when adding human behaviour and emotion to their work. Then Irene shared a few product examples where psychology played a crucial role in shaping the final product. We then discussed how designers could use colour, typography, and other visual elements to evoke specific emotional responses in users and the best practices for doing so effectively. In the end, Irene spoke on how cultural and societal factors influence design decisions and what strategies designers can use to create designs that resonate with diverse audiences. Irene Au Websitehttps://medium.com/design-your-life Book Recommendation by Irene Au The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin Geometry of Design - Kimberly Elam Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and many more. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and join the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.
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Annie Pearl is the CPO @ Calendly, the company that makes scheduling meetings simple and painless. Before Calendly, Annie led Glassdoor's product vision and user experience, managing a 70-person product and design org. Shreyas Doshi is an investor, advisor, and all-around product OG. Most recently Shreyas spent over 5 years at Stripe where he was Stripe's first PM Manager and helped grow the PM function (from ~5 to more than 50 people). Before Stripe, Shreyas was a Director of Product Management @ Twitter. David Lieb is one of the product OGs of the last decade. As the founder of Bump David pioneered how over 150M users shared data, contacts and more before the company was acquired by Google. At Google, David took this one step further by creating Google Photos. Marty Cagan is one of the OGs of Product and Product Management as the Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group. Before founding SVPG, Marty served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Aparna Chennapragada is the former CPO @ Robinhood, revolutionizing consumer finance with commission-free investing. Prior to Robinhood, she spent an incredible 12 years at Google, most recently as VP and GM for Consumer Shopping and also as the lead AR and Visual Search products. Lenny Rachitsky is one of the OGs of product, having spent over 7 years at Airbnb as a product lead he left to start his newsletter, find it here. This has scaled to thousands upon thousands of readers and one of the most popular newsletters on Substack. For the last 7 years, Kayvon Beykpour has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, and Customer Service & Operations. Kayvon came to Twitter through Periscope, the live broadcasting app he founded that was acquired by Twitter in 2015. Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer. Scott oversees all of product and engineering for Creative Cloud, as well as design for Adobe. In 2006, Scott founded Behance, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. In Today's Episode on How to Hire a Product Manager, We Discuss: 1.) When to Hire Your First PM: What are the core signs that the founder must delegate and hire their first PM? What are the first things that are breaking when you do not have one but need one? How does the timing of the first PM differ when comparing B2B vs B2C? 2.) What is the Right Profile: What should founders look for in this first PM hire? What traits make the best? What are the biggest red flags in the personalities and styles of potential candidates? Should they have experience in the product domain they are entering? What are the single biggest mistakes founders make when analyzing the resumes of potential PM candidates? What should they look for in their resume? 3.) The Hiring Process: How To Hire a Product Manager How do we structure and run the hiring process for this person? What tests can we do to understand if they have the skill set we need for the role? How do we structure a hiring panel to make this process more effective? What are the biggest mistakes founders make in the hiring process for PMs?
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Marty Cagan is one of the OGs of Product and Product Management as the Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group. Before founding SVPG, Marty served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. He worked directly alongside Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz at Netscape and Pierre Omidyar at eBay. In Today's Episode with Marty Cagan We Discuss: 1. Entry into the World of Product From Engineering: How Marty first made his way into the world of product, having started life as an engineer? What does Marty know now that he wishes he had known when he started in product? What are Marty's biggest tips to anyone making the move from engineering to product? 2. Lessons from Marc and Ben at Netscape and Pierre @ eBay: What are the single biggest lessons Marty took from working side by side on product with Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen? What did Netscape do right? What did they do wrong? With hindsight, what would Marty have done differently? How did Marty break all of his rules by working with Pierre Omidyar? 3. Hiring a World Class Early Product Team: When is the right time to make your first product hire as a startup? What is the right profile for that first product hire? Senior or junior? If you go for the junior hire, how do you structure the rest of the team? If you go for the Senior hire, how do you structure the rest of the team? What are the single biggest mistakes startups make when hiring their first in product? Does Marty prefer someone with or without expertise in the domain you are in? 4. Mastering the Onboarding Process: What is the optimal onboarding process for all new product hires? How can leaders ensure that product hires see and understand all areas of the business? What can product leaders do to proactively impress in the first 30-60 days? What are clear red flags that a new product hire is not working out? How long do we give them?
Marty Cagan is a Silicon Valley-based product executive with more than 20 years of experience with industry leaders including eBay, AOL, Netscape Communications and Hewlett-Packard. Marty is the author of the book “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love” which presents techniques for creating winning products. Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, and advising, Martin was most recently the original leader of Product and Design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company's global e-commerce trading site. Marty now works with technology companies from across the globe on improving both innovation and velocity.
Marty Cagan joins Chris and Yaniv to discuss what he sees as the biggest risk to building a successful product. It's not choosing the wrong problem, it's building the wrong solution! Marty is as close as the world of product has to a public intellectual: after decades spent building impactful products at Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay, Marty founded Silicon Valley Product Group to spread the best practices of product development in tech. His two books Inspired and Empowered have taught countless Product Managers and leaders how to build better products. In this episode, we discuss: Solution Risk and why it's the biggest risk for most startups; Prototyping and the PM solution discovery toolkit; The Product Manager as CEO of the team; The power of including Engineers in product discovery; Empowered Product Designers; How to hire a PM; What to do if you find yourself in a feature team; The importance of coaching in developing Product Managers; Subject matter expertise and the Domain Dogma trap; This discussions in this episode were inspired by Marty's blog post on solution risk: https://www.svpg.com/the-biggest-risk/ Learn more about Marty here: https://www.svpg.com/team/marty-cagan/ Read Marty's book Inspired: https://www.svpg.com/books/inspired-how-to-create-tech-products-customers-love-2nd-edition/ Read Marty's book Empowered:: https://www.svpg.com/books/empowered-ordinary-people-extraordinary-products/ Want to connect with us? Follow the Startup Podcast on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-startup-pod/ Follow us on Twitter Yaniv Bernstein @ybernstein Chris Saad @chrissaad Please rate and Review The Startup Podcast on your podcast app. Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-startup-podcast/id1612757016. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5C6oN1uFj29A4jHZn57lNO. Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84NjhlNWEwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw A bit about our hosts: Chris Saad: Independent Startup Advisor and Angel Investor, who helps startups and entrepreneurs fast-forward company's growth. Chris consults on developer platforms & ecosystems, future of media, data portability, on-demand economy, and the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Visit http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ or connect with Chris on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Yaniv Bernstein: Founder and COO of Circular, a subscription e-commerce platform with sustainability at its heart. By focusing on customer experience while reducing waste and underutilization, Circular provides subscriptions to premium devices at affordable prices and with unmatched flexibility. Visit Circular https://www.nowcircular.com/ and connect with Yaniv on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/
“Instead of being given a roadmap of features, an empowered team is given a problem to solve and they get to figure out the best way to solve that problem." Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group and the author of “Inspired” and “Empowered”. In this episode, we discussed how companies ought to build great products by learning from the best product companies. Marty explained the importance of building the right product and shared the two inconvenient truths about building products. Marty then elaborated on the traits a good product team has and how to create an empowered product team by ensuring ownership and alignment and by having clear product vision, strategy, and focus. Towards the end, Marty shared the importance of coaching and nurturing people, how to hire better, and how to structure product team topologies. Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:05:48] Writing Inspired & Empowered - [00:11:38] Building the Right Product - [00:16:23] Two Inconvenient Truths - [00:17:45] Traits of Good Product Teams - [00:22:06] Engineering Involvement - [00:24:53] Empowered - [00:26:44] Ownership & Alignment - [00:28:41] Product Vision & Strategy - [00:33:00] Focus - [00:35:39] Coaching & Nurturing People - [00:39:40] Hiring - [00:41:56] How to Structure Teams - [00:43:49] 4 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:46:55] _____ Marty Cagan's Bio Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including HP Labs, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Marty is also the author of the books INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love and EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. Follow Marty: Website – https://www.svpg.com/ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan Twitter – @cagan Our Sponsors DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ. Skills Matter is the global community and events platform for software professionals. You get on-demand access to their latest content, thought leadership insights as well as the exciting schedule of tech events running across all time zones. Head on over to skillsmatter.com to become part of the tech community that matters most to you - it's free to join and easy to keep up with the latest tech trends. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/102.
TODAY'S GUEST Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with early-, mid-, and late-stage startup CEOs. She is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods, practices, processes, leadership, talent, and quality. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating the strategic importance of design within technology companies, having built and led the entire User Experience and Design teams at Google, Yahoo!, and Udacity. She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the design of the internet's first commercial web browser. Irene also teaches yoga at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto where she is among the teacher training program faculty and is a frequent author and speaker on mindfulness practices, design, and creativity. An adjunct lecturer at Stanford University, she teaches product design in the mechanical engineering department. Irene also serves as a trustee for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design. Irene authored the definitive O'Reilly book, Design in Venture Capital, and her popular essays can be found on Medium. She has been featured in WIRED magazine, Fast Company magazine, CommArts magazine, and on the cover of Mindful magazine. EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we talk about: Developing listening skills as an introspective child, and how feeling like an outsider helped her develop those skills. Her electrical engineering studies, and her transition into looking at how technology influences society and people and how we live. Her time at Netscape, and tying together the products for a consistent look and feel across a suite of products that came out at the time called Netscape Communicator. Her move from Netscape to Yahoo!, and what went wrong for Yahoo! as a company trying to find its way. Her time at Google as we look at it from all angles. What was the state of design at Google before she joined and what were the changes she tried to implement as she brought human-centered design and practices to Google? Hiring strategies, staff training, and how design workshops ultimately became the Design Sprint at Google. What is design and what is a designer? And the role of the designer in venture capital. I think my greatest takeaway from this interview is this sense of hope that someone like Irene is able to walk into these very "techy" cultures and produce real change. And all it takes is really showing the value of the work and being willing to engage and promote better practices. I think Irene will be an inspiration to many non-engineers who find themselves in heavy engineering cultures and want to make a contribution. This conversation with Irene is one of many weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, best-selling authors, designers, makers, scientists, impact entrepreneurs, and others who are working to change our world for the better. So please follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe. And now, let's jump right in with Irene Au. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS [5:54] Life in the Present [7:08] Early Childhood Driving Forces [9:40] A Journey to Design [13:20] Entering Netscape [16:00] The Challenges of the Early Internet [19:23] A Transition From Netscape to Yahoo! [22:58] The Infrastructure of Yahoo! [30:14] Good Design Versus Bad Design [34:04] The Winners and the Failures [39:48] Infusing Design With Google [45:55] Design Thinking Workshops [52:13] A Sideways Career Move [58:35] What is Design Today? [1:05:26] The Human Meaning of Design [1:08:58] A Short Sermon EPISODE LINKS Irene's Links
Ever since Agile started, different frameworks have emerged. There has been an abundance of training and hyped certificates to get people up to speed. After a few days of following a course, they are now the experts of agility. But does that really support you and your organization in creating the right value? True power comes from empowerment. Having teams and people in the right place, empowered to make the decisions, instead of blindly following the traditional hierarchy is where a lot of organizations could benefit from. Marty Cagan, author and responsible for building products for organizations like HP and eBay, joins us to talk about how empowering organizations. What you'll discover in this show:- Just implementing any framework won't help you solve your problems - It takes a whole lot of courage to give power to whoever should have it - Product Discovery is tough but incredibly valuable Speakers: Marty CaganPartner, Silicon Valley Product Group Marty Cagan founded the Silicon Valley Product Group in 2003 to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising, and coaching. Previously, Marty served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including HP Labs, Netscape Communications, and eBay.Marty is the author of INSPIRED: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love, and the recently released EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. Marty is an invited speaker at conferences and companies worldwide and is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and of the Stanford University Executive Institute. Contact Marty:www.svpg.com Twitter: @cagan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan Sander Dur (host)Scrum Master, Agile Coach, trainer, and podcast host for ‘Mastering Agility”Sander Dur is a business agility enthusiast, with a passion for people. Whether it's healthy product development, agile leadership, measurement, or psychological safety, Sander has the drive to enable organizations to the best of their abilities. He is an avid article writer, working on a book about Scrum Mastery from the Trenches, and is connecting listeners with the most influential people in the industry. Masteringagility.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanderdur/ https://agilitymasters.com/en https://sander-dur.medium.com/ Additional resources: Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/masteringagility)
Join us on TechTime with Nathan Mumm this week on the show; AT&T and Verizon 5G power limits will resolve FAA safety concerns with interference. Next, Spotify creates 'Netflix Hub,' and a real-life Squid Game re-creates Netflix show with a $456,000 prize. Next, our guest Trina L Martin helps us enhance our virtual Zoom Meetings with suggested tweaks and addons, then we look at how to help our Small Business Saturday with a few items in technology items to grab. Finally, we have our Pick of the Day Whiskey Tastings and Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by Stori-Coffee®. All of this on hour one of our two-hour show.On the Second Hour, we continue our small business Saturday by looking at a beta software application that allows small businesses to advertise for free while allowing gamers to play games to win real prizes. Then, join us to talk about some Cyber Monday Steals and Deals and what is happening in the gaming community on Gamer Time. Next, we have a few cyber breaches to talk about, and finally, we have the "This Week in Technology" segment and a few breaking news articles we might bring up along the way."Welcome to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hummmm" Technology news of the week for November 27th through December 3rd, 2021.Episode 76: Hour 1--- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 4:45--- [Top Stories in 5 Minutes]: Starts at 10:47AT&T and Verizon agree to 5G power limits to resolve FAA safety concerns - https://tinyurl.com/8zppb2za Spotify creates ‘Netflix Hub' where fans can listen to playlists and podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/yj3watsfCan South Africa embrace renewable energy from the sun?Spotify tests TikTok-like vertical video feature - https://tinyurl.com/ckdpz8 Real-life Squid Game re-creates Netflix show with $456,000 prize--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Review]: 20:27Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban | $49.99 | 92 Proof--- [Technology Insider] Guest Trina L Martin: Starts at 21:53Trina shares about Addins and the Marketplace for Zoom the Video Conference Service--- [TechTime Wish List]: Starts at 37:37We share tips on this holiday's top items with secrets for purchasing these items.--- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 49:37--- [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 54:30Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban | $49.99 | 92 Proof Nathan: Thumbs Up Mike: Thumbs UpEpisode 76: Hour 2 --- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 1:01:24--- [Steal and Deals]: Starts at 1:06:20Mike and Nathan share this week's best prices on technology items for the week. --- [Technology Insider]: Starts at 1:18:00Corey Williams the CEO and Founder of Pryzbox joins the show to explain his application that is built to help small businesses. --- [What we found on the Web]: Starts at 1:37:14Twitter launches livestream shoppingNetflix's new gaming service added two more titlesPrivacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo added to its Android app the ability to block hidden trackers, as part of its new “App Tracking Protection for Android” feature--- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 1:48:20November 24, 1998- AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $4.2 billion
Invest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Software is eating the world”– Marc AndreessenWe are getting better at making more with lessIf you want more job creation, you want more technology and productivity growthChart of the century – provides a great outline on the dilemma we are facing when it comes to this equationSystem shock – Covid provided a catalyst for many macro level business decisions that wouldn't have been made“The more detached the legacy system (college & university) gets, the more practical and pragmatic the private sector will get” – Marc AndreessenIt's time to build everything – we have too much bureaucracy on productionRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc was an early pioneer of the internet. At age 22, he built Mosaic, the first widely adopted web browser and the technology that underpinned Netscape Communications. Marc was an early proponent of cloud computing, social networks, and the software business model. In each case, Marc seemed to be well ahead of the crowd. During our conversation, we explore how software is making the world better, how slow sectors like education, healthcare, and housing are eating the economy, and Marc's vision of the future for A16Z. Please enjoy my conversation with Marc Andreessen. Before we transition to the episode, I wanted to highlight our newest series, Business Breakdowns. Each week we do a deep dive into an individual business to understand what makes it great. Find more information on joincolossus.com or search for and sign up to the Business Breakdowns feed on your preferred podcast player. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ------ This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus has built the most extensive primary information platform available for investors. With Tegus, you can learn everything you'd want to know about a company in an on-demand digital platform. Investors share their expert calls, allowing others to instantly access more than 10,000 calls on Affirm, Teladoc, Roblox, or almost any company of interest. All you have to do is log in. Visit tegus.co/patrick to learn more. ------ This episode is brought to you by Paxos. Paxos offers your customers crypto buying, selling, transferring, and more with easy to integrate APIs. Whether you're a small fintech or a large financial institution, Paxos takes care of everything in the backend – from licensing and compliance to custody and exchange. You can start offering crypto to your customers within months. To learn more, visit paxos.com/patrick. ------ Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes [00:04:10] - [First question] The ways in which software is eating the world [00:06:25] - The power of transitioning from atoms to bits and its impacts [00:09:57] - Potential downsides and credible concerns as we shift into an automated world [00:16:00] - Major impediments of productive growth over the coming decades [00:23:12] - Real change versus false change due to COVID-19 writ large [00:30:06] - Thoughts on the rising cost of post-secondary education in light of the internet [00:37:03] - Why doesn't Google have their own university and if they might in the future [00:41:30] - Whether or not an entrepreneurial focus on generally slower sectors may produce excess returns [00:44:17] - Thoughts on hardware, its unit economics, and its role in shaping society [00:47:52] - How to think about investing in immensely complicated, large-scale projects [00:54:10] - What they're building at A16Z, a new crypto fund, and where their sights are set [01:03:09] - East coast investing styles and things we can borrow from them [01:06:01] - Potential plans to step into the public equity space [01:11:09] - Defining why it's time to build and the imperative it sets [01:15:13] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
Invest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Software is eating the world”– Marc AndreessenWe are getting better at making more with lessIf you want more job creation, you want more technology and productivity growthChart of the century – provides a great outline on the dilemma we are facing when it comes to this equationSystem shock – Covid provided a catalyst for many macro level business decisions that wouldn't have been made“The more detached the legacy system (college & university) gets, the more practical and pragmatic the private sector will get” – Marc AndreessenIt's time to build everything – we have too much bureaucracy on productionRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc was an early pioneer of the internet. At age 22, he built Mosaic, the first widely adopted web browser and the technology that underpinned Netscape Communications. Marc was an early proponent of cloud computing, social networks, and the software business model. In each case, Marc seemed to be well ahead of the crowd. During our conversation, we explore how software is making the world better, how slow sectors like education, healthcare, and housing are eating the economy, and Marc's vision of the future for A16Z. Please enjoy my conversation with Marc Andreessen. Before we transition to the episode, I wanted to highlight our newest series, Business Breakdowns. Each week we do a deep dive into an individual business to understand what makes it great. Find more information on joincolossus.com or search for and sign up to the Business Breakdowns feed on your preferred podcast player. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ------ This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus has built the most extensive primary information platform available for investors. With Tegus, you can learn everything you'd want to know about a company in an on-demand digital platform. Investors share their expert calls, allowing others to instantly access more than 10,000 calls on Affirm, Teladoc, Roblox, or almost any company of interest. All you have to do is log in. Visit tegus.co/patrick to learn more. ------ This episode is brought to you by Paxos. Paxos offers your customers crypto buying, selling, transferring, and more with easy to integrate APIs. Whether you're a small fintech or a large financial institution, Paxos takes care of everything in the backend – from licensing and compliance to custody and exchange. You can start offering crypto to your customers within months. To learn more, visit paxos.com/patrick. ------ Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes [00:04:10] - [First question] The ways in which software is eating the world [00:06:25] - The power of transitioning from atoms to bits and its impacts [00:09:57] - Potential downsides and credible concerns as we shift into an automated world [00:16:00] - Major impediments of productive growth over the coming decades [00:23:12] - Real change versus false change due to COVID-19 writ large [00:30:06] - Thoughts on the rising cost of post-secondary education in light of the internet [00:37:03] - Why doesn't Google have their own university and if they might in the future [00:41:30] - Whether or not an entrepreneurial focus on generally slower sectors may produce excess returns [00:44:17] - Thoughts on hardware, its unit economics, and its role in shaping society [00:47:52] - How to think about investing in immensely complicated, large-scale projects [00:54:10] - What they're building at A16Z, a new crypto fund, and where their sights are set [01:03:09] - East coast investing styles and things we can borrow from them [01:06:01] - Potential plans to step into the public equity space [01:11:09] - Defining why it's time to build and the imperative it sets [01:15:13] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
Invest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Software is eating the world”– Marc AndreessenWe are getting better at making more with lessIf you want more job creation, you want more technology and productivity growthChart of the century – provides a great outline on the dilemma we are facing when it comes to this equationSystem shock – Covid provided a catalyst for many macro level business decisions that wouldn't have been made“The more detached the legacy system (college & university) gets, the more practical and pragmatic the private sector will get” – Marc AndreessenIt's time to build everything – we have too much bureaucracy on productionRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc was an early pioneer of the internet. At age 22, he built Mosaic, the first widely adopted web browser and the technology that underpinned Netscape Communications. Marc was an early proponent of cloud computing, social networks, and the software business model. In each case, Marc seemed to be well ahead of the crowd. During our conversation, we explore how software is making the world better, how slow sectors like education, healthcare, and housing are eating the economy, and Marc's vision of the future for A16Z. Please enjoy my conversation with Marc Andreessen. Before we transition to the episode, I wanted to highlight our newest series, Business Breakdowns. Each week we do a deep dive into an individual business to understand what makes it great. Find more information on joincolossus.com or search for and sign up to the Business Breakdowns feed on your preferred podcast player. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ------ This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus has built the most extensive primary information platform available for investors. With Tegus, you can learn everything you'd want to know about a company in an on-demand digital platform. Investors share their expert calls, allowing others to instantly access more than 10,000 calls on Affirm, Teladoc, Roblox, or almost any company of interest. All you have to do is log in. Visit tegus.co/patrick to learn more. ------ This episode is brought to you by Paxos. Paxos offers your customers crypto buying, selling, transferring, and more with easy to integrate APIs. Whether you're a small fintech or a large financial institution, Paxos takes care of everything in the backend – from licensing and compliance to custody and exchange. You can start offering crypto to your customers within months. To learn more, visit paxos.com/patrick. ------ Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes [00:04:10] - [First question] The ways in which software is eating the world [00:06:25] - The power of transitioning from atoms to bits and its impacts [00:09:57] - Potential downsides and credible concerns as we shift into an automated world [00:16:00] - Major impediments of productive growth over the coming decades [00:23:12] - Real change versus false change due to COVID-19 writ large [00:30:06] - Thoughts on the rising cost of post-secondary education in light of the internet [00:37:03] - Why doesn't Google have their own university and if they might in the future [00:41:30] - Whether or not an entrepreneurial focus on generally slower sectors may produce excess returns [00:44:17] - Thoughts on hardware, its unit economics, and its role in shaping society [00:47:52] - How to think about investing in immensely complicated, large-scale projects [00:54:10] - What they're building at A16Z, a new crypto fund, and where their sights are set [01:03:09] - East coast investing styles and things we can borrow from them [01:06:01] - Potential plans to step into the public equity space [01:11:09] - Defining why it's time to build and the imperative it sets [01:15:13] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
My guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc was an early pioneer of the internet. At age 22, he built Mosaic, the first widely adopted web browser and the technology that underpinned Netscape Communications. Marc was an early proponent of cloud computing, social networks, and the software business model. In each case, Marc seemed to be well ahead of the crowd. During our conversation, we explore how software is making the world better, how slow sectors like education, healthcare, and housing are eating the economy, and Mark's vision of the future for A16Z. Please enjoy my conversation with Marc Andreessen. Before we transition to the episode, I wanted to highlight our newest series, Business Breakdowns. Each week we do a deep dive into an individual business to understand what makes it great. Find more information on joincolossus.com or search for and sign up to the Business Breakdowns feed on your preferred podcast player. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ------ This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus has built the most extensive primary information platform available for investors. With Tegus, you can learn everything you'd want to know about a company in an on-demand digital platform. Investors share their expert calls, allowing others to instantly access more than 10,000 calls on Affirm, Teladoc, Roblox, or almost any company of interest. All you have to do is log in. Visit tegus.co/patrick to learn more. ------ This episode is brought to you by Paxos. Paxos offers your customers crypto buying, selling, transferring, and more with easy to integrate APIs. Whether you're a small fintech or a large financial institution, Paxos takes care of everything in the backend – from licensing and compliance to custody and exchange. You can start offering crypto to your customers within months. To learn more, visit paxos.com/patrick. ------ Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes [00:04:10] - [First question] The ways in which software is eating the world [00:06:25] - The power of transitioning from atoms to bits and its impacts [00:09:57] - Potential downsides and credible concerns as we shift into an automated world [00:16:00] - Major impediments of productive growth over the coming decades [00:23:12] - Real change versus false change due to COVID-19 writ large [00:30:06] - Thoughts on the rising cost of post-secondary education in light of the internet [00:37:03] - Why doesn't Google have their own university and if they might in the future [00:41:30] - Whether or not an entrepreneurial focus on generally slower sectors may produce excess returns [00:44:17] - Thoughts on hardware, its unit economics, and its role in shaping society [00:47:52] - How to think about investing in immensely complicated, large-scale projects [00:54:10] - What they're building at A16Z, a new crypto fund, and where their sights are set [01:03:09] - East coast investing styles and things we can borrow from them [01:06:01] - Potential plans to step into the public equity space [01:11:09] - Defining why it's time to build and the imperative it sets [01:15:13] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
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This week, Xagility™ has the immense pleasure of hosting the incredible Marty Cagan to discuss his fantastic book: "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products". Marty Cagan is the author of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, and Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. He has performed and managed virtually all of the roles in a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and executive management. He is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group, where he helps others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising, and coaching. Marty has served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Packed with anecdotes, humor as well as pure wisdom, this episode is guaranteed to inspire you (pun intended) as the speakers dive deep into the core themes underlying Marty's book and discuss how to create tech products customers love! So what are you waiting for? Tune in and get inspired! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xagility/message
Poya and Robby interview Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee. Connect with Greg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsands/ https://twitter.com/gsands Connect with Poya Osgouei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/ Connect with Robby Allen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/ This week's episode was supported by Indeed (get a $75 credit for your job post at indeed.com/scale) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uncharted1/support
About This Episode: Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. During his career, he has played the roles of the modern technology product organization. Marty is also the author of INSPIRED: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love, and the brand new EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. Marty continues to inspire product teams and product leaders by being invited to speak at major conferences across the globe. Find out more about Marty at: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan Silicon Valley Product Group - https://svpg.com/ Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) - https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-Ordinary-People-Extraordinary-Products/dp/111969129X Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/848 Sponsors:LinkedIn: This episode is sponsored by LinkedIn linkedin.com/cyol Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book
About This Episode: Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. During his career, he has played the roles of the modern technology product organization. Marty is also the author of INSPIRED: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love, and the brand new EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. Marty continues to inspire product teams and product leaders by being invited to speak at major conferences across the globe. Find out more about Marty at: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan Silicon Valley Product Group - https://svpg.com/ Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) - https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-Ordinary-People-Extraordinary-Products/dp/111969129X Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/848 Sponsors:LinkedIn: This episode is sponsored by LinkedIn linkedin.com/cyol Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book
https://www.alainguillot.com/marty-cagan/ Marty Cagan is a speaker, author, advisor, and coach. Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. He wrote EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products You can get the book right here: https://amzn.to/2KFMyTd
Topics: Monica Lewinsky Scandal, Jay Z, Beloved (Film), 90's Tech (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound and Luck Pacheco) 1998 General Snapshots 1. Bill Clinton President 2. Jan - Paula Jones accuses U.S. President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. 3. Jan - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants. 4. Jan - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos become the first AFC team in 14 years to win the Super Bowl, as they defeat the Green Bay Packers 5. Jan - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The next day, Hillary Clinton appears on The Today Show, calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy". 6. Mar - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. 7. Apr - The unemployment rate drops to 4.3%, the lowest level since February 1970. 8. Apr - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 9,000 for the first time. 9. Apr - Teletubbies begins its U.S. television debut on PBS. 10. Apr - Inflight smoking is banned on all commercial passenger flights in the United States, 11. Jun - The Chicago Bulls win their 6th NBA title in 8 years when they beat the Utah Jazz. This is also Michael Jordan's last game as a Bull, clinching the game in the final seconds on a fadeaway jumper. 12. Aug - The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden. Two weeks later. The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan. 13. Oct - College student Matthew Shepard is found tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyoming. His death became a symbol of gay-bashing and sparked a national debate on homophobia in the U.S. 14. Nov - Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, is elected Governor of Minnesota. 15. Nov - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications for $4.2B as the “Dot.com” bubble heats up. Between 1995 and 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 400%. 16. Dec - Lewinsky scandal: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted of any wrongdoing.) 17. Open Comments 18. Top 3 Pop songs 19. #1 "Too Close", Next 20. #2 "The Boy Is Mine", Brandy and Monica 21. #3 "You're Still the One", Shania Twain 22. Record of the Year: "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion 23. Album of the Year: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill 24. Song of the Year: "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion 25. Best New Artist: Lauryn Hill 26. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Doo Wop (That Thing)”, Lauryn Hill 27. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "St. Louis Blues”, Stevie Wonder in Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World 28. Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: "The Boy Is Mine", Brandy & Monica 29. Best R&B Song: "Doo Wop (That Thing)”, Lauryn Hill 30. Best R&B Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill 31. Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album: Live! One Night Only, Patti LaBelle 32. Best Rap Solo Performance: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It", Will Smith 33. Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Intergalactic", Beastie Boys 34. Best Rap Album: Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z 35. Top 3 Movies 36. #1 Armageddon 37. #2 Saving Private Ryan 38. #3 Godzilla 39. Notables: Dr. Dolittle, Half Baked, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Primary Colors, The Players Club, Suicide Kings, He Got Game, Bulworth, The Truman Show, Mulan, There's Something About Mary, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Blade, Rush Hour, Antz, Beloved, Belly, The Waterboy, A Bug's Life, A Simple Plan, You've Got Mail 40. Open Comments 41. Top 3 TV Shows 42. #1 ER 43. #2 Friends 44. #3 Frasier 45. Debuts: Judge Joe Brown, The Hughleys 46. Open Comments 47. Economic Snapshots 48. Income = 38.1 (Previously 37.5K) 49. House = 129.3 (124k) 50. Car = 17k (17k) 51. Rent = 619 (576) 52. Harvard = 30,080 (28.9) 53. Movie = 4.69 (4.59) 54. Gas = 1.15 (1.22) 55. Stamp = .32 (-) 56. Social Scene: Monica Lewinsky Scandal (Highlights) 57. Born in San Francisco in 1973, Monica Lewinsky was raised in a well-off family in the Los Angeles area. In the summer of 1995 (@ 22 yrs. old), after graduating from Lewis and Clark College, she landed an unpaid internship in the White House chief of staff’s office. 58. In November 1995, during a federal government shutdown, Lewinsky flirted with the president and the two had their first sexual encounter. Later that month, she took a paying job in the Office of Legislative Affairs. 59. They had seven more encounters in the White House and her visits started drawing notice from people. In April 1996, a deputy chief of staff had her transferred to a job at the Pentagon. 60. The president and Lewinsky had two more encounters, the last was in spring 1997, and stayed in touch by phone. 61. At the Pentagon, she befriended a coworker, Linda Tripp, and she confided details of her affair with the president. Tripp in turn shared the story with an anti-Clinton conservative literary agent she knew. That person urged Tripp to secretly, and in violation of taping laws, record hours of her phone conversations with Lewinsky. 62. Word of Tripp’s tapes made it to lawyers working on behalf of Paula Jones, a former government employee who had filed a lawsuit against the president for alleged sexual misconduct that took place in 1991, when he was governor of Arkansas. 63. In December 1997, Lewinsky was subpoenaed by Jones’ attorneys and, after the president allegedly suggested she be evasive, the former intern denied in an affidavit that she had had a sexual relationship with Clinton. 64. Around the same time, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who had been investigating Clinton and his wife Hillary’s involvement in a failed business venture called Whitewater, found out about Tripp’s recordings. Soon afterward, FBI agents fitted Tripp with a hidden microphone so she could legally tape her conversations with Lewinsky. 65. Then Starr expanded his investigation to include the president’s relationship with Lewinsky and told her that if she did not cooperate with the investigation she would be charged with perjury. 66. When Clinton was deposed in January 1998 by Jones’ legal team, he claimed he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky. (The Big Lie) 67. On January 17, 1998, the Drudge Report, a conservative online news site, published the accusations against the president and the next day revealed Lewinsky’s identity. The mainstream media picked up the story a few days later, and a national scandal Erupted. Clinton refuted the allegations against him, famously stating at a press conference, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” 68. That July, Lewinsky’s lawyers announced she had been granted immunity in exchange for her testimony. She also gave Starr’s team physical evidence of her affair with Clinton: a blue dress with an incriminating stain containing the president’s DNA. At the suggestion of Tripp, Lewinsky had never laundered the garment. 69. On August 17, 1998, Clinton testified before a grand jury and confessed he had engaged in “inappropriate intimate physical contact” with Lewinsky. However, the president contended his actions did not meet the definition of sexual relations used by Jones’ attorneys—so he had not perjured himself. That night, he appeared on national TV and apologized for his behavior but maintained he had never asked anyone involved to lie or do anything illegal. 70. In September 1998, Starr gave Congress a 445-page report. The Starr Report was soon made public by Congress and published in book form, becoming a best-seller 71. In December, the House approved two articles of impeachment against him: perjury and obstruction of justice. He was only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached (after President Andrew Johnson in 1868). 72. On February 12, 1999, following a five-week trial in the Senate, Clinton was acquitted. (During his impeachment proceedings, he agreed to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit for $850,000, but admitted no wrongdoing.) 73. Open Comments: 74. Question: Impeach? (Y/N) (Can you imagine if Barack did this to Michelle!) 75. Music Scene: Black Songs from the Top 40 76. #1 "Too Close" - Next 77. #2 "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy and Monica 78. #6 "Together Again" - Janet 79. #7 "All My Life" - K-Ci & JoJo 80. #9 "Nice & Slow" - Usher 81. #12 "No, No, No" - Destiny's Child 82. #14 "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" - Will Smith 83. #15 "You Make Me Wanna..." - Usher 84. #16 "My Way" - Usher 85. #17 My All" - Mariah Carey 86. #18 "The First Night" - Monica 87. #19 "Been Around the World" - Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase 88. #24 "Body Bumpin' (Yippie-Yi-Yo)" - Public Announcement 89. #26 "I Don't Ever Want to See You Again" - Uncle Sam 90. #27 "Let's Ride" - Montell Jordan featuring Master P and Silkk the Shocker 91. #30 "A Song for Mama" - Boyz II Men 92. #31 "What You Want" - Mase featuring Total 93. #33 "Gone till November" - Wyclef Jean 94. #34 "My Body" - LSG 95. #36 "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" - Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz 96. #39 "They Don't Know" - Jon B. 97. #40 "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" - Master P featuring Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal 98. Vote: 99. Top RnB Albums 100. Jan - R U Still Down? (Remember Me), 2Pac 101. Jan - My Way, Usher 102. Jan - Money, Power & Respect, The LOX 103. Feb - My Balls and My Word, Young Bleed 104. Feb - Anytime, Brian McKnight 105. Mar - Charge It 2 da Game, Silkk the Shocker 106. Mar - My Homies, Scarface 107. Mar - Life or Death, C-Murder 108. Apr - The Pillage, Cappadonna 109. Apr - Moment of Truth, Gang Starr 110. May - There's One in Every Family, Fiend 111. Jun - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, DMX 112. Jun - MP Da Last Don, Master P 113. Jul - El Nino, Def Squad 114. Jul - Am I My Brother's Keeper, Kane & Abel 115. Aug - N.O.R.E., Noreaga 116. Aug - Jermaine Dupri Presents: Life In 1472, Jermaine Dupri 117. Aug - Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, Snoop Dogg 118. Sep - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill 119. Oct - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z 120. Nov - R., R. Kelly 121. Dec - Tical 2000: Judgement Day, Method Man 122. Dec - Doc's da Name 2000, Redman 123. Vote: 124. Featured Artists: Jay Z 125. Childhood & Early Life: Shawn Corey Carter was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1969. He is the last of the four children. When he was only 11 years old, his father abandoned the family. They lived in the drug-infested ‘Marcy Projects’, where violence and gun-culture were also prevalent. He soon became so imbibed the gun-culture that he allegedly shot his elder brother in the shoulder for pocketing his jewelry. His interest in music was sparked from early on when he received a boom box for his birthday from his mother. He began free styling, scripting lyrics and copied the music of many popular artists of the time. He studied at several local high schools, where he was classmates with future performers, Busta Rhymes and The Notorious B.I.G., before ultimately dropping out and selling drugs. 126. Career Highlights 127. 1989 Jaz-O (@19yrs): Hooked up with local star and fellow project inhabitant, Jaz-O, who became his guru and taught him the industry basics. In order to pay homage to his mentor, he changed his name to Jay-Z, since Sean was known as ‘Jazzy’ in his neighborhood. Jaz-O’s “Hawaiian Sophie” is one of Jay-Z’s earliest appearances on wax. - Key development: He saw Jaz-O get jerked over by the record business. No record deal and he return to selling drugs. 128. 1992 Big Daddy Kane (@22): BDK records a mixtape with Jaz-O and Jay-Z. Eventually, BDK and Jay start working together and during BDK’s time with the Patti LaBelle tour he had Jay-Z performing for him while was in the back changing clothes. Key Development: Exposure and experience, but no deal. Back to the streets. 129. 1994 Original Flavor/Clark Kent/Damon Dash (@24): Original Flavor was one of rap's middle school crews headed by Ski, an MC/producer. They were also the first group managed by future recording industry executive Damon Dash. Although Ski worked with legendary New York DJ Clark Kent for the groups debut project, the album fizzled. For their follow-up, Ski enlisted the aid of a few more MCs including a young Brooklynite with some experience in the rap field, Jay-Z. Original Flavor was Jay-Z's training ground and it served as a catapult for his future endeavors. Flavor's sophomore release was released in 1994 and again fizzled. However, the lead single "Can I Get Open" features Jay-Z in impeccable pre-Jayhova form. Jay-Z's skills far surpassed those of the rest of the crew and his solo career would begin soon. Key Development: Local buzz, regional tours, several singles and videos but no deal. Starts transition from the streets. 130. 1995-96 Roc-A-Fella Records (@25): Frustrated with being turned down by several major labels Carter, Dash and Kareem Burke started their own label, Roc-A-Fella, as an independent outlet for Jay-Z's music. After becoming a local sensation, Jay-Z turned into Jigga and adopted the Tony Montana-styled persona. He would continue to work with his Original Flavor partner Ski after the group disbanded, making him a member/producer of his Roc-a-Fella staff. Jay-Z was also supported by The Notorious B.I.G.'s producer DJ Clark Kent. Key Development: Debut album, ‘Reasonable Doubt’ released in 1996. It did not immediately attain commercial success, but it spawned several hits, and established Jay-Z in the hip-hop community. No more streets. 131. 1997 Def Jam (@27): Roc-A-Fella Records agreed to a 50/50 partnership and distribution deal with Def Jam. His second studio album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. Is released. The album debuted at #3 and most of the production is handled by Puff Daddy's production team giving the album a glossier sound than its predecessor. It was a shift from the mafioso rap themes of his first effort to a more popular sound. Critical reviews: "Though the productions are just a bit flashier and more commercial than on his debut, Jay-Z remained the tough street rapper, and even improved a bit on his flow...he struts the line between project poet and up-and-coming player" while balancing "both personas with the best rapping heard in the rap game since the deaths of 2Pac and Notorious B.I.G." (Also, in response to the sellout charge, Roc-A-Fella Records released the movie Streets Is Watching.) 132. 1998 Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life: The third studio album was released on September 29, 1998, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. Key Development: He cracks the code. This album went on to become his most commercially successful album to date, selling over 5 million copies. Critics review: Q magazine called it "the epitome of mainstream hip hop". 133. Audio Clip 134. Open Comments: 135. Question: Everybody knows someone who overcame the “streets” and is a success or should have overcome the “streets” and been a success. Who is your personal “Jay-Z”? 136. Movie Scene: Beloved 137. Summary: In 1873 Ohio, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) is a mother of three haunted by her horrific slavery past and her desperate actions for freedom. As a result, Sethe's home is haunted by a furious poltergeist, which drives away her two sons. Sethe and her daughter (Kimberly Elise) endure living with the spirit for 10 more years, until an old friend, Paul D. Garner (Danny Glover), arrives to run it out. After Garner moves in, a strange woman named Beloved (Thandie Newton) enters their lives, causing turmoil. 138. Accolades: Academy Awards, Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood (Nominated), Chicago Film Critics, Most Promising Actress: Kimberly Elise (Winner), NAACP Image Awards, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Danny Glover (Winner) 139. Review: Demme's direction tells the story through mood and accumulation of incident, rather than through a traditional story line. His editor, Carol Littleton, takes on the difficult task of helping us find our way through the maze. Some audience members, I imagine, will not like it--will find it confusing or too convoluted. And it does not provide the kind of easy lift at the end that they might expect. Sethe's tragic story is the kind where the only happy ending is that it is over. - Roger Ebert 140. Review: No Peace from a Brutal Legacy. "Beloved" works on its own but is much enhanced by familiarity with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In so ambitiously bringing this story to the screen, Ms. Winfrey underscores a favorite, invaluable credo: read the book. - By Janet Maslin. NY Times 141. Fallout: 'Beloved' Tests Racial Themes At Box Office; Will This Winfrey Film Appeal to White Audiences? - By Bernard Weinraub 142. Answer: No. Winfrey has gone on public record stating that she ate 30 pounds of macaroni and cheese when she was informed the Saturday after the movie opened that "we got beat by something called Chucky." Oprah also claimed that Beloved's failure at the box office was the worst moment in her career and brought her into a major depression. "It was the only time in my life that I was ever depressed, and I recognized that I (was) depressed because I've done enough shows (on the topic). 'Oh, this is what people must feel like who are depressed.” 143. Open Comments 144. Question: Favorite book-to-movie?: Call Me By Your Name/The Princess Bride/12 Years a Slave/Little Women/Mean Girls/The Shawshank Redemption/Harry Potter/Gone Girl/The Color Purple/The Wizard of Oz/Jurassic Park/The Lord of the Rings/The Godfather/THE /COLOR PURPLE/ROOTS/WAITING TO EXHALE/BELOVED/WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT/THINK LIKE A MAN/THE WIZ/THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES/The Help/THE HELP/MALCOLM X/LADY SINGS THE BLUES/HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK/PRECIOUS/DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS 145. Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from Worldwide Web to Google - By David Gewirtz, ZDNET 146. 1990: The First Web Browser - Of all the technologies that changed our lives, perhaps the most profound of the last 50 years has been the web. But it was not the ability to hyperlink documents that made the most impact. Instead, it was the application that presented all that information to users, the browser. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented and wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Notables: Adobe released the first version of Photoshop in 1990. 147. 1991: Linux - On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds typed the following to the Minix Usenet newsgroup, and it changed everything, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional..." Today, Linux runs in everything, from light bulbs to cars, to almost all TVs and phones on the market. Notable: Second generation (2G) cell phones. 2G service used digital transmission instead of analog and paved the way for SMS messaging. 148. 1992: The First Sms Text Message - December 3, 1992 engineer Neil Papworth sent a message to Richard Jarvis on a Vodafone Orbitel 901 handset. It said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS". 149. 1993: Mosaic Web Browser - It was the first browser that could display images. Mosaic was created by grad students at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic eventually became Netscape, which dominated the web (for a while, at least). 150. 1994: Amazon Founded - It started as a source for books. Notable: Sony's first PlayStation 151. 1995: Windows 95 And Ie 1.0 - Windows 95 was the first version of Windows to include IE, which would become the dominant browser for more than a decade. Notable (1): E-commerce: While the concept of e-commerce existed loosely for a few years, it was not until the 1990s that modern e-commerce was born. In 1995, both Amazon and eBay launched, and in 1999 Alibaba made its debut. Notable (2): JavaScript. SSL, and eBay 152. 1996: Palm Pilot Handheld - The first successful handheld PDA. Notable: DVD, & USB 153. 1997: Steve Jobs Returns To Apple - Apple would soon utterly transform music and telephones. Notable: MP3 players, Netflix, and Wi-Fi standard adopted. 154. 1998: Google Founded. Notable: Windows 98 and first iMac introduced. 155. 1999: The digital video recorder (DVR) was born. Notable: BlackBerry and preparing for the Y2K bug. 156. Question: Best 90’s tech: 157. Vote: Best/most important/favorite pop culture item from 1998?
Marty Cagan is a Silicon Valley-based product executive with more than 20 years of experience with industry leaders including eBay, AOL, Netscape Communications, and Hewlett-Packard. Marty is the author of 'Empowered' a book that Matt & Marty dive into on this episode. EMPOWERED puts decades of lessons learned from the best leaders of the top technology companies in your hand as a guide. It shows you how to become the leader your team and company needs to not only survive but thrive.
Un tema controversial, pero; aludiendo a la justicia. El navegador web es una de las herramientas de internet que más ha influido en el desarrollo de esta nueva tecnología, ya que nuestras primeras experiencias han sido a través de las páginas web. Las herramientas sociales o redes sociales, a la fecha tienen más impacto mediático, pero; el navegador web sigue siendo la puerta de entrada al mundo de internet. Netscape Communications, es junto con Mosaic y WorldWideWeb, los fundadores de estas experiencias, Firefox el heredero de Navigator de Netscape quien ha soportado los embates de Microsoft desde el inicio. Esperemos que la justicia no deje de existir ni en el mundo ni en INTERNET. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radioseguridad/message
So you have an empowered Product team where you give them problems and not features to build; that’s great. But how do you know which problems to solve? This talk with Marty Cagan is all about Product Strategy. Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Get the free cheat sheet with all actionable tips and notes from this episode in a one-page PDF at bit.ly/pmhub13 Intro music by Peter Boros of The Nameless Citizens
Igor Plotnikov brings 30 years of technology product development experience. He has held a number of senior engineering management positions and had co-founded a string of startups that led to $1B+ in product sales. Two of his startups were acquired by F5 Networks and Cisco. One of the startups that he'd worked for during the mid-90s had been acquired by the Netscape Communications. In this episode, we talk about how to hire top-notch engineers and build highly productive teams.
Facebook’s James Everingham shares about his early leadership and management experiences and the secrets he learned from quantum mechanics to manage creative teams. You’ll hear insights about how to unleash creativity by focusing on outcomes and environments instead of process and key differences between optimizing for efficiency and invention. James Everingham - Head of Engineering, Calibra @ Facebook (@jevering) “His approach was just to start collecting, recruiting, the smartest scientists he could find, and tell them what the end result needed to be. He trusted them to just go figure it out.” -James Everingham James is an engineering leader at Facebook. Previously, James was the Head of Engineering at Instagram. Throughout his 35-year career as a manager, entrepreneur and technology developer, James has led many world-class engineering teams. At Yahoo he was Vice President of Engineering for Yahoo media properties after the company acquired Luminate, an interactive image technology company which he founded. Some of his other previous roles include CTO and founding team member of LiveOps, Senior Director of Engineering at Tellme (acquired by Microsoft) and Senior Director of Engineering at Netscape Communications where he was responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. Before joining Netscape, James held engineering and management positions at Oracle and Borland International. SHOW NOTES James’ early introduction to management at Penn State & Borland. (3:30) What managing creative teams and quantum mechanics have in common. (7:56) A simple explanation of Classical physics and quantum mechanics. (8:40) Henry Ford and classical management. (9:35) Robert J. Oppenheimer and “quantum management.” (10:24) The distinction between classical and quantum managers. (12:41) Other examples of quantum managers. (14:16) The observer effect. (17:00) Translating the principle of “superposition” into management. (18:16) Quantum entanglement, “spooky action at a distance”. (23:15) Creating positive “entanglements” and “spooky management at a distance” in your teams using reciprocity, empathy, and camaraderie. (23:39) How to get better results for yourself using feedback. (26:06) Want to get involved with our community of engineering leaders? Check us out at sfelc.com. We’re working on a number of interesting projects to continue to empower engineering leaders. Join us at sfelc.com to be included in updates with our content, events, and all other new opportunities we’re creating! Learned something impactful? Have an idea to improve our show? We’d love to hear your insights and feedback! … Send us a message at hello@sfelc.com! If you enjoyed this or found it impactful, share the episode with someone who might find it meaningful! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/engineeringleadership/message
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Ben Horowitz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading and most prestigious venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, Github, Slack, Lyft, Coinbase and many more incredible companies. Ben is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and the upcoming Harper Business book, What You Do Is Who You Are, available October 29. Prior to a16z, Ben was Co-Founder and CEO of Opsware, acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications, including the widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Ben make his way into the world of venture having previously co-founded Opsware? What was the original thinking for a16z? How did seeing the booms and busts of the market as an operator, impact how Ben thinks about investing today? 2.) In the book Ben says, "If soldiers trust the general, communication will be vastly more efficient". What have been Ben's biggest lessons on how to create an environment of trust quickly? As a board member, how does Ben create an environment of trust for the founder? What is Ben's advice to Harry having just gained his first board seat last year? 3.) Ben has said before of the importance of creating "shocking rules". What are the rules for creating these shocking rules? What are the best rules composed of? Given their shocking nature, how does one instil them in the organisation? What does Ben think is the most shocking rule he has implemented at a16z? 4.) What does ben believe that founders can take away from the rituals of the Samurai? Why does Ben believe that "meditating on company downfalls will enable you to build your culture the right way". Why is the negativity so helpful in forming the right culture? How does ben advise founders when their company is struggling, the team knows it and morale is low? What happened at Okta? How did they turn the culture and business around? 5.) Ben has previously spoken about bringing in external leadership from the cultures you want to master. How does one know when is the right time to bring in this external influence? What can we learn from observing Google Cloud's strategy? How does one retain the old culture but augment it with the new? What were some of Ben's biggest hiring lessons when operating? How does Ben get employees to "feel a sense of urgency", when a change needs to occur? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Ben’s Fave Book: The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Ben on Twitter here!
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “To be a good CEO, and to be liked in the long run, you must do things that upset people in the short run” – Ben Horowitz“If you make decisions that everybody likes all the time, then those are the decisions they would have made without you. You’re not actually adding any value.”As an entrepreneur, avoid thinking in terms of probabilitiesInstead, think in terms of: “How do I do this?”You have to have the mindset: “Okay, I’ve got one bullet in the gun. I’ve got to hit the target. I’m going to do whatever I can to get as close as possible… If somehow we don’t make it, we don’t make it. But we’re going to die trying.”Sharpen your contradictions“In an organization, you’ll often see little disagreements between people, and a lot of your inclination is to smooth things over, but the right answer is to sharpen the contradictions” – Ben HorowitzWhat you DO is who you are – not your values, not what you tweet, but what you DOA company culture isn’t a shared set of beliefs, it’s a shared set of actions/behaviorsRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org"One of the key insights from Bushido is that a culture is not a set of beliefs, it's a set of actions." — Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz (@bhorowitz) is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and the upcoming Harper Business book, What You Do Is Who You Are, available October 29th. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications, including the widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line.Ben has an MS and BA in Computer Science from UCLA and Columbia University, respectively.This podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, "If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?" My answer is, inevitably, Athletic Greens. It is my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body and did not get paid to do so.As a listener of The Tim Ferriss Show, you'll get a free 20-count travel pack (valued at $79) with your first order at athleticgreens.com/tim.This episode is also brought to you by Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, LinkedIn's podcast now in its second season, and it is full of advice you can start using today.Each week, Jessi sits down with featured guests to investigate the role work plays in our lives, and how to make it work for us. This season, one of the first episodes I recommend checking out is with Jerry Colonna. I've worked with Jerry in the past, and he is one of the start-up world's most in-demand executive coaches. In the episode, Jerry shares his approach to meetings, explains how to ask good open-ended questions, and he also goes through his approach to daily journaling.Whether you're starting your first job or gearing up for retirement, Hello Monday helps you tackle Monday — and the rest of the workweek — with tactics and strategies you can use. Find Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “To be a good CEO, and to be liked in the long run, you must do things that upset people in the short run” – Ben Horowitz“If you make decisions that everybody likes all the time, then those are the decisions they would have made without you. You’re not actually adding any value.”As an entrepreneur, avoid thinking in terms of probabilitiesInstead, think in terms of: “How do I do this?”You have to have the mindset: “Okay, I’ve got one bullet in the gun. I’ve got to hit the target. I’m going to do whatever I can to get as close as possible… If somehow we don’t make it, we don’t make it. But we’re going to die trying.”Sharpen your contradictions“In an organization, you’ll often see little disagreements between people, and a lot of your inclination is to smooth things over, but the right answer is to sharpen the contradictions” – Ben HorowitzWhat you DO is who you are – not your values, not what you tweet, but what you DOA company culture isn’t a shared set of beliefs, it’s a shared set of actions/behaviorsRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org"One of the key insights from Bushido is that a culture is not a set of beliefs, it's a set of actions." — Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz (@bhorowitz) is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and the upcoming Harper Business book, What You Do Is Who You Are, available October 29th. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications, including the widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line.Ben has an MS and BA in Computer Science from UCLA and Columbia University, respectively.This podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, "If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?" My answer is, inevitably, Athletic Greens. It is my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body and did not get paid to do so.As a listener of The Tim Ferriss Show, you'll get a free 20-count travel pack (valued at $79) with your first order at athleticgreens.com/tim.This episode is also brought to you by Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, LinkedIn's podcast now in its second season, and it is full of advice you can start using today.Each week, Jessi sits down with featured guests to investigate the role work plays in our lives, and how to make it work for us. This season, one of the first episodes I recommend checking out is with Jerry Colonna. I've worked with Jerry in the past, and he is one of the start-up world's most in-demand executive coaches. In the episode, Jerry shares his approach to meetings, explains how to ask good open-ended questions, and he also goes through his approach to daily journaling.Whether you're starting your first job or gearing up for retirement, Hello Monday helps you tackle Monday — and the rest of the workweek — with tactics and strategies you can use. Find Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
"One of the key insights from Bushido is that a culture is not a set of beliefs, it's a set of actions." — Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz (@bhorowitz) is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and the upcoming Harper Business book, What You Do Is Who You Are, available October 29th. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications, including the widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line.Ben has an MS and BA in Computer Science from UCLA and Columbia University, respectively.This podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, "If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?" My answer is, inevitably, Athletic Greens. It is my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body and did not get paid to do so.As a listener of The Tim Ferriss Show, you'll get a free 20-count travel pack (valued at $79) with your first order at athleticgreens.com/tim.This episode is also brought to you by Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, LinkedIn's podcast now in its second season, and it is full of advice you can start using today.Each week, Jessi sits down with featured guests to investigate the role work plays in our lives, and how to make it work for us. This season, one of the first episodes I recommend checking out is with Jerry Colonna. I've worked with Jerry in the past, and he is one of the start-up world's most in-demand executive coaches. In the episode, Jerry shares his approach to meetings, explains how to ask good open-ended questions, and he also goes through his approach to daily journaling.Whether you're starting your first job or gearing up for retirement, Hello Monday helps you tackle Monday — and the rest of the workweek — with tactics and strategies you can use. Find Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
Marty Cagan is often referred to as the most influential person in the product space. He got his start building products for eBay, AOL and Netscape Communications, and Hewlett-Packard. Now he's a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group where he helps companies create winning product strategies and grow their product organization. Oh, and it just so happens that Marty has been a longtime role model for Build’s host, Maggie Crowley.So in this episode, Maggie and Marty sit down for an epic discussion of all things product management. Some of the topics they cover are: how to really build cross-functional teams, why companies don’t actually operate like their role models, and the real difference between discovery and delivery. And that barely scratches the surface. Want to hear the one piece of advice Marty gives to product managers? Listen to the full episode.
My guest is venture capitalist Greg Sands. Greg is the founder and managing partner for Costanoa Ventures, an early stage VC firm based in Palo Alto, California. I can tell you I've met Greg and he's got passion. Passion for life and passion for entrepreneurship. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Twitter: @gsands, @costanoavc Website: costanoavc.com Interview: Mitch Matthews: He worked, even as he was growing up, worked in a community bank, so he started to get to know the ins and outs of entrepreneurship early and up close. In college, he even co-founded a micro enterprise incubator in East Palo Alto. Before founding Costanoa, Greg was a managing director at Sutter Hill where he had a number of huge successes. Plus he was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he helped to write the business plans. He even coined the name Netscape and built SuiteSpot a business unit. That unit went from zero to $140 million annually. Amazing. No schlep either. He went to Harvard for his undergrad, Stanford for his MBA. But most importantly, he's the proud father of four, and apparently around Palo Alto, he simply known as Sara Sands' husband. I know what that's like. I love it. Hey Greg, welcome to Dream, Think, Do, buddy. Greg Sands: Thanks. It's great to be here with you. Mitch Matthews: I love it. So, okay. Many, many facets to venture capital. How do you describe specifically what you do? Greg Sands: Well, our job is fundamentally to find extraordinary entrepreneurs working on important problems and then make an investment and support them through the entrepreneurial life cycle and journey. It's extraordinary work. I honestly feel grateful to do it everyday. Mitch Matthews: I bet. And I'm sure peaks and valleys, adventures and horror stories all go along in that. Again, as we got to interact even in Jefferson, it was just obvious you are in a sweet spot where you're really truly getting to do something you love. Now we've got a lot of different people, as you and I have talked about, we got a lot of different listeners to Dream, Think, Do, but a lot of younger listeners also just anybody that's kind of also trying to find that sweet spot in life. So I love to ask some questions about that a little bit as well. When did it start to sink in that maybe this was your gig? This was your jam? Was that at an early age as well? Or was that something you uncovered over time? Greg Sands: No, uncovered over time. I mean it's interesting. I would say my career has not been one that's been planned very top down. I tend to be bottoms up and kind of sense of direction and push towards it. So I was working at a consulting firm out of college. I was working with pharmaceutical R&D and environmental technology and I basically decided to go to business school at Stanford because I wanted to put myself in the middle of Silicon Valley. And I didn't know that much about it, but it felt like the right direction for me to focus on smaller organizations and entrepreneurial organizations and technology driven organizations. Greg Sands: And so I just throw myself into the middle of it. And then within that ecosystem just started exploring. And so I happened to be introduced to Jim Clark as he and Mark Andreessen were founding Netscape. So some of that is right place, right time, as you mentioned. Got to write the first business plan and shipped the first products and build the suite of Internet server software. And in the end, by virtue of being in and around that ecosystem, playing a hands on role first as a product manager and software business and in and around the emergence of the Internet, actually got a call about the venture capital business. And I hadn't really been thinking about it. But as I spent six months talking to people, exploring, getting to know the team at Sutter Hill, I came to to think that it was a place that would use a lot of my skills that would move some of my passions and the...
Future Squared with Steve Glaveski - Helping You Navigate a Brave New World
Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay. Marty is the author of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, which explores lessons from top tech companies, how to get the right people on the bus, product management and development, and how to build a culture that underpins success. During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern technology product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and general management. Marty speaks at major conferences and top companies across the globe and brings with him a wealth of knowledge from more than three decades in the industry. After spending the first half of this conversation riffing on what companies, in particular established incumbents are doing wrong, when it comes to building a truly innovative culture and taking new products to market, we spent the second half exploring several case studies and some techniques that people in the industry can begin to employ to start breaking the inertia, that, almost ten years after concepts like agile and the lean startup started making waves, seems to still be all too common in the modern organisation. This is an incredibly worthwhile conversation for anybody involved in building new products, or trying to build new products in an environment that perhaps isn’t all that conducive to doing a good job of it. So please, sit back, strap yourselves in and enjoy my conversation with Marty Cagan. Topics discussed: What people can learn from Inspired Marty’s early days at HP in the 80s and the fundamental lessons he learned about product development early in his career The importance of aligning culture, process and people Why average talent + great culture and leadership = better results than top talent Pushback on lean startup and agile: is it warranted? Inertia in the modern organisation How to get buy-in from sales and engineering teams Great companies lead academia, they don’t follow it. The tendency of executives to look for silver bullet solutions like ‘design thinking’ or ‘lean startup’ instead of thinking holistically about what’s really required to drive innovation at a firm Case studies from Netflix and Google on getting stakeholder buy-in and supporting disruption The role of the product manager and why the role has lost its way Should the product manager be involved in all customer usability and insight gathering activities? Whether ‘agile-but’ or ‘scrum-but’ are effective applications or a bastardisation of the spirit underlying these methodologies High integrity commitments Parallels between the 90s and today insofar as technology is concerned and Marty’s views on AI and blockchain Show Notes: Get Marty's book “INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love”: https://amzn.to/2MRJgLR SVPG: www.svpg.com Marty on Twitter: @cagan Bill Campbell’s ‘Stratechery’: https://stratechery.com/ I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Follow Steve on Instagram: @thesteveglaveski
In this episode, Matt talks with Nic Perez, Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton, about his journey with crowdsourcing and how he's seen technology develop over the years with companies like Netscape Communications, Charles Schwab and America Online; his passion for using technology for the greater good and the lives he's impacted working as the web technical architect for American Red Cross; and his views on the the power of the gig economy and its ability to allow people to work on whatever they want, wherever they want.
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee.
Google could now be considered a product driven company, but it wasn’t always that way. For many years Google’s engineering-led culture cherished efficiency over user experience. Irene Au arrived at a pivotal moment in the company’s history, and helped shape the way that Google’s product’s clearly value design today. Now in her role as a design partner at Khosla Ventures, she helps startups “build high performing teams, establish design practices, mentor and grow the next generation of great designers, and design interfaces and experiences.” Here is her story. Irene Au's Bio Irene is design partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with CEOs, executives, and designers to make products and services people can't live without. Irene has extensive experience elevating design at the highest levels of the organization by starting first with an empathetic understanding of human needs, and building high performing teams who create products people can’t live without. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating the strategic importance of design within internet companies, having built and led the entire User Experience and Design teams at Google (2006-2012), Yahoo! (1998-2006), and Udacity (2012-2014). She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the design of the internet’s first commercial web browser. Irene is also a yoga teacher at internationally-recognized Avalon Yoga in Palo Alto, where she offers an accessible and challenging yoga practice for all.
For the past several years, John has been Director of Impact Capital at Santa Clara's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship and has also been a mentor to social entrepreneurs at the Global Social Benefit Accelerator. In 2011 he authored a report on impact investing entitled Coordinating Impact Capital: a New Approach to Investing in Small and Growing Businesses and recently co-authored a chapter on equity investing in New Frontiers of Philanthropy (Oxford Press-2014). He is now pioneering a new investment vehicle – the Demand Dividend - that presents investors with a ‘structured exit' alternative to equity. In addition, he is co-founder and Director of Toniic, a syndication network of impact investors. John manages investments through Redleaf Venture Management, a venture capital operating company founded in 1993. John's earlier background includes twenty years of executive level positions at Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, Convergent Technologies and Unisys. He was one of the founding executives at Netscape Communications. He led investments at AdRelevance (JMXI), Mosaic Communications (TWX), NetGravity (DCLK), RedCreek Communications (SNWL), and Wireless Online. John serves as a board member at PACT, an NGO based in Washington D.C. He received his bachelor's degree concentrating in international economics from UCLA and completed executive programs at Wharton and Stanford business schools. Over the last 15 years, he was a managing member of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund and still serves on the UCLA Sciences Board of Visitors. Other recent advisory committees include the World Economic Forum, and HUB Ventures. John has a vast wealth of knowledge when it comes to financing early stage companies, and he is now applying his skill set to helping social entrepreneurs build investment ready companies at the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. It's not often you get to have discussions with someone who launched the first micro VS firm back in 1993, and is now applying lessons learned from tech investing in Silicon Valley to the companies and entrepreneurs who are trying to build businesses addressing climate resilience, bottom of the pyramid customers, and is financing them through innovative means. Rather than always taking equity, there are alternative ways to fund social enterprise startups that align long term goals of both the investor and the company, and create a more sustainable model, and John is at the forefront of these methods. Show Notes and Resources: Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Impact Capital Redleaf Venture Management Climate Resilience Toniic Demand Dividend 1 | 2 | 3 Investors Circle GIIN Arabella Advisors Facebook.com/impactinvestingpodcast twitter.com/impinvpodcast
Mitch Stoltz (@mitchstoltz) is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mitch works on cases where free speech and innovation collide with copyright and trademark law. His current projects include improving the legal environment for mobile software developers and tinkerers, fighting the use of copyright as a tool for censorship, litigation on the copyright status of mandatory safety codes, and legal analysis in the field of Internet television and video. Mitch also counsels clients on Internet video technology and open source software licensing. Before joining EFF, Mitch was an associate at Constantine Cannon LLP in Washington DC, where he worked on antitrust and copyright litigation on behalf of consumer technology, advertising, medical, and transportation companies. He also represented technology companies and trade associations before the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies. Long ago, in an Internet far far away, Mitch was Chief Security Engineer for the Mozilla Project at Netscape Communications (later AOL), where he worked to secure Web browsers against malicious Internet content and coordinated the security research efforts of hackers on three continents. Mitch has a JD from Boston University and a BA in Public Policy and Computer Science from Pomona College, where he co-founded the student TV station Studio 47. When not working, he can be found tinkering with electronics or chasing new levels of suffering on a bicycle. In this episode we discussed: key issues in the FCC's controversial set-top box proceeding. why copyright law does not apply in the context of set-top box manufacturers providing access to content consumers have already paid for. Resources: Electronic Frontier Foundation OmniFocus The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu THE NEWS Yahoo! was the latest target of what Yahoo company officials say was yet another state-sponsored hack into the servers of American institutions. It's believed to be the largest hack of a single company, according to David Gelles of The New York Times. Some 500 million Yahoo user accounts were breached. The intrusion came as company officials were putting the final touches on Verizon's proposed $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo! Now experts are wondering whether the transaction is going to go through. ---- Jessica Guynn at USA Today obtained an email from Google revealing the tech giant's plans to open a diversity-focused tech lab in Oakland, California. The city is more than half African American and Latino. The tech lab, which is a partnership with MIT Media Lab, is called Code Next, and it is slated to open in October. Code Next is expected to work with the Oakland Unified School District in its efforts to bring more minority students into the tech sector pipeline. ---- Jessica Guynn at USA Today also reported on Facebook's new voter registration drive, which the company launched on Friday in the U.S. The company sent out voter registration reminders that sends users to vote.usa.gov, where they are guided through the registration process. ---- VR Company Oculus is doing damage control after it was discovered that the company's co-Founder, Palmer Luckey, donated $10,000 to a group called Nimble America, which is basically a trolling site that calls itself a QUOTE “shitposting” meme generator to help drump up support for Donald Trump among younger voters. Luckey apologized to his company and its partners. He says he is a libertarian who supports Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. Kyle Orland and Ars Technica has the full story. ---- Dating app Tinder and music streaming site Spotify announced a new partnership last week. Jacob Kastrenakes at the Verge reported last week that Tinder users will now be able to see each others' last few songs they listened to. All users, whether they are Spotify users or not, will be able to feature their one favorite song on their profile. ---- Catherine Ho at the Washington Post reports that John Boehner is headed to Squire Patton Boggs-a major lobbying and law firm. Boehner has also joined the board of Reynolds American--the maker of Camel cigarettes. Boehner will reportedly not be lobbying congress but will instead be advising corporate clients on global business development. ---- Last week, the Government Accountability Office reported grim news to the President's Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity. The report states the number of cyber incidents involving the federal government has jumped 1,300% between 2005 and 2015. Joe Davidson at the Washington Post has the story.
Summary:Lou Montulli is a web pioneer. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today.In 1994 he became a founding engineer of Netscape Communications (employee number 9) and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser.He is also responsible for several browser innovations, such as HTTP cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, and the implementation of animated GIFs into the browser. While at Netscape, he also was a founding member of the HTML working group at the W3C and was a contributing author of the HTML 3.2 specification. He is a member of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.Lou was also a co-founder of Epinions.com. He was the CEO of Memory Matrix, and when that company was purchased by Shutterfly, he served as Shutterfly’s Vice President of Engineering. He is currently the co-founder and Chief Scientist at Zetta.net.More about Lynx here.Here is the famous fishcam!Here is the post we discuss where Lou lays out the reasoning behind the birth of the browser cookie.The birth of the tag. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Anthony Sanchez and Mike Harrishttp://archive.org/download/ProjectCamelot/Project-Camelot-32k-013013_Mike_Harris_and_Anthony_Sanchez.mp3Anthony F. Sanchez received his BSc. in Computer Information Systems from Western Governors University of Salt Lake City, UT. In addition to being a Software Consultant for the State of California through his own company, Anthony has been employed for 16 years as a Software Engineer working for 3Com, Intel, Acer, Netscape Communications, and Hewlett Packard performing high level software development supporting scientific engineering and business intelligence projects.He became interested in UFOs back in 1989, at the time Area 51 surfaced as a public phenomenon. Since 2000 he has researched the subject matter thoroughly employing various scientific methods and hands on approaches, thus compiling over 20 years worth of UFO related research data.For the purposes of augmenting his knowledge on Human Origins, Anthony has also studied in detail, ancient Hebrew religious texts such as the Old Testament Bible, and gospels from the the Dead Sea Scrolls such as the 'book of Giants', and 'book of Enoch'. He has also studied famous Sumerian-Babylonian translations such as the Enuma Elish, and the Atra-Hasis as well as numerous Akkadian Mesopotamian cylinder seals and Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions.http://ufohighway.com/anthony_sanchez.htmlMike Harris spent 20 years in China and Russia and the Far East working on mergers acquisitions, specializing in technology development and transfers. He has managed projects as simple as power plants and as complex as the Pershing 2 missile. He is currently with Swiss based Adamus group, and serves on project team for the next generation $1.6 trillion dollar hyper collider. Mike is a lifelong Republican, and former candidate for governor of AZ, Mike also served as Republican Party Finance Chairman. Mike Supported Ron Paul for the 2012 primary campaign.http://www.renseradio.com/hosts.htm
The UFO Highway Book by Anthony F. Sanchez Software engineer and UFO researcher, Anthony F. Sanchez, discusses how the military industrial complex is related to the Greys and UFOs. Anthony is the first Investigative Researhcer to 'ever' find U.S. Government Property atop the Archuleta Mesa (Dulce, NM), on what is soveriegn land belonging to the Jicarilla Apache nation, not the U.S. Government or Military. This is a clear indication that something is happening in Dulce.” AUTHOR BIO Anthony F. Sanchez received his BSc. in Computer Information Systems from Western Governors University of Salt Lake City, UT. In addition to being a Software Consultant for the State of California through his own company, Anthony has been employed for 16 years as a Software Engineer working for 3Com, Intel, Acer, Netscape Communications, and Hewlett Packard performing high level software development supporting scientific engineering and business intelligence projects. He became interested in UFOs back in 1989, at the time Area 51 surfaced as a public phenomenon. Since 2000 he has researched the subject matter thoroughly employing various scientific methods and hands on approaches, thus compiling over 20 years worth of UFO related research data. For the purposes of augmenting his knowledge on Human Origins, Anthony has also studied in detail, ancient Hebrew religious texts such as the Old Testament Bible, and gospels from the the Dead Sea Scrolls such as the 'book of Giants', and 'book of Enoch'. He has also studied famous Sumerian-Babylonian translations such as the Enuma Elish, and the Atra-Hasis as well as numerous Akkadian Mesopotamian cylinder seals and Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions.
Marty Cagan is often referred to as the most influential person in the product space. He got his start building products for eBay, AOL and Netscape Communications, and Hewlett-Packard. Now he's a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group where he helps companies create winning product strategies and grow their product organization. Oh, and it just so happens that Marty has been a longtime role model for Build’s host, Maggie Crowley. So in this episode, Maggie and Marty sit down for an epic discussion of all things product management. Some of the topics they cover are: how to really build cross-functional teams, why companies don’t actually operate like their role models, and the real difference between discovery and delivery. And that barely scratches the surface. Want to hear the one piece of advice Marty gives to product managers? Listen to the full episode.
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