Podcasts about siqi

Siqi Chen (@blader, CEO/CFO @Runwayco), talks about his journey from JPL developer to Founder of a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) startup. We focus on how to build products that customers crave and how a customer-centric view differs from traditional product management.SHOW: 923SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #923 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Runway websiteBehind What Seems Like an Overnight Success (video)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Siqi. First, your combination of technical and business/financial background is fascinating. How did you go from coding at NASA to Head of Product at Zynga to CEO/CFO for a finance platform startup? Give everyone a quick introduction.Topic 2 - One thing I've noticed as a trend in your background is the core concept of building. What has been your philosophy in building products? How do you build products that customers demand?Topic 3 -  Let's talk about AI and AGI for a moment. We hear all the time how disruptive this will be. What are your thoughts here, and how do we develop both adaptability and resiliency to new technologies?Topic 4 - Let's talk FP&A (financial planning & analysis). Our core listeners out there tend to skew more towards the tech and infrastructure side, but a core theme of this show is always to be learning as much of the business as possible to apply those concepts. As someone with a background in both worlds, plus now running an FP&A startup, what do you wish folks on the technical side of the house knew more about to make their jobs easier?Topic 5 - We posted a link in the show notes for a video you did on the “overnight success” of Runway. It was a good representation and origin story of how something can go viral with the right mindset and product-market fit. Tell everyone about that as Runway approaches 5 years now. Topic 6 - What is your biggest challenge in the FP&A space today? Is it AI? We've seen a lot of AI disruption in coding, legal, and other areas requiring deep data pool insights. Is this any different?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Runway CEO and co-founder Siqi Chen shares how his team used a waitlist not just to build hype, but to engineer smarter growth. In this episode of Fund/Build/Scale, Siqi breaks down how Runway strategically kept customers in a holding pattern to gather feedback, qualify demand, and refine product-market fit. We also talk about: How to build trust with early users through transparency Using scarcity and access control as GTM levers Why financial planning should be accessible to everyone on the team What most founders get wrong about burn rate and cash flow Whether you're in the early stages or prepping for launch, this episode offers a masterclass in thoughtful, tactical go-to-market execution. RUNTIME 39:46 EPISODE BREAKDOWN (2:49) “ What if somebody worked on a Figma for finance?” (5:48) “ You have to understand what are the different levers of the machine, and how the machine works.” (8:50) Why Runway represents a cultural shift in corporate transparency. (11:51) How much financial literacy should founders try to foster across their organizations?  (14:48) How much runway should a startup aim for? (18:39) How Runway's waitlist fed directly into its GTM strategy. (21:36) The  ”very simple motivation” behind creating the waitlist. (24:35) The “negging trick” that makes sales prospects want to buy your product. (26:37) “ Your early customers join you for very different and specific reasons.” (28:55) “ Our first website, we didn't even really talk about the product.” (30:23) After opening up the waitlist, “ nothing really changed — we were doing outbound sales already.” (34:17) “People who are really motivated by your purpose and mission are willing to give you a lot more leeway.” (36:42) What the next five years could look like for Runway. (38:07) The one question Siqi would ask a CEO if he was interviewing at an early-stage startup.  LINKS Siqi Chen Runway Runway lands $27.5M to streamline financial planning for businesses As Not Seen on TV, Pete Wells, NYT Restaurant Review, 11/13/12 SUBSCRIBE

This week, we chat with Siqi Chen!Siqi is the founder and CEO of Runway, a next generation FP&A platform that makes finance actually understandable and accessible to the entire team.As an operator and founder, he served as the CEO of Sandbox VR (a16z), VP of Product and Growth at Postmates (later acquired by Uber), CEO of Hey, Inc (Google-funded, acquired by Postmates), Head of Product at Zynga (IPO 2011) and CEO of Serious Business (funded by Lightspeed, acquired by Zynga). In addition to his operational roles, Siqi is an investor in nearly a hundred companies, including notable names like ElevenLabs, Amplitude, Pipe, and Mercury.Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Siqi made significant contributions at NASA JPL, where he achieved the distinction of being the sole recipient of a Congressional Space Act award while still in school. This recognition was a result of his contributions to machine vision technology on the Mars Exploration Rovers.Follow Us!Siqi Chen: @bladerRunway: @runwaycoErica Wenger: @erica_wengerDear Twentysomething: @deartwentysomething

#222 Master the Art of Financial Product Design with Siqi Chen https://open.spotify.com/episode/019MLgaVF4N7jNvm2Ek910 Mastering the art of financial product design is a crucial skill for finance professionals in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. In this insightful podcast episode, Kevin sits down with Siqi Chen, the Founder and CFO of Runway, to explore the challenges and opportunities in creating innovative finance software. The discussion delves into the limitations of traditional finance tools, the importance of user-centric design, and the transformative potential of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. Siqi Chen shares his diverse background, from his studies in mathematics to her experience working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Siqi recounts his journey as a serial entrepreneur, highlighting the challenges she faced in understanding finance and the inspiration behind founding Runway, a finance software company aimed at revolutionizing the way businesses approach financial management. They delve into the unique features and design principles that set Runway apart from traditional finance tools. Siqi explains how Runway's focus on collaboration, data visualization, and seamless integration with other business systems addresses the pain points experienced by finance teams. The discussion also explores the role of ambient intelligence and artificial intelligence in enhancing the user experience and providing proactive insights. Kevin and Siqi also discuss the potential for collaboration between their respective organizations, exploring opportunities for joint webinars, summits, and other initiatives. The shared enthusiasm for innovation in the finance space sets the stage for a continued dialogue and the exploration of new ways to empower finance professionals in their quest to drive business success. Key topics covered: Siqi Chen's diverse background and his journey as a serial entrepreneur The limitations of traditional finance tools and the inspiration behind founding Runway Runway's focus on collaboration, data visualization, and seamless integration The role of ambient intelligence and artificial intelligence in enhancing the user experience Potential for collaboration between Grow CFO and Runway, including joint webinars and summits Runway's pricing and target market for mid-market companies Siqi Chen's emphasis on the importance of user-centric design in finance software Runway's unique features, such as fine-grained permission controls and the ability to encrypt sensitive data The potential of finance software to revolutionize the way businesses approach financial management The shared enthusiasm for innovation and the exploration of new opportunities in the finance space https://youtu.be/79XXRP-gKCk Links Siqi Chen on LinkedIn Kevin Appleby on LinkedIn GrowCFO Mentoring Timestamps 0:03:14 - Initial greetings and discussion of partnership opportunities 0:05:09 - Siqi Chen's background and the founding of Runway 0:08:53 - Challenges in finance and the need for better tools 0:13:04 - Runway's unique approach and features 0:16:52 - Runway's focus on collaboration and data visualization 0:20:59 - The role of ambient intelligence and artificial intelligence in Runway 0:26:55 - Runway's integration with other business systems and workflows 0:32:28 - Runway's pricing and target market 0:35:20 - Siqi Chen's emphasis on user-centric design 0:47:18 - Potential for collaboration between Grow CFO and Runway Find out more about GrowCFO If you enjoyed this podcast, you can subscribe to the GrowCFO Show with your favorite podcast app. The GrowCFO show is listed in the Apple podcast directory, Spotify and many others. Why not subscribe there today? That way, you never miss an episode. GrowCFO is a great place to extend your professional network.

Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Early days at Zynga  (14:34) Business ideas (52:18) Touchy-feely class (1:07:24) Siqi's favorite interview question (1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs — Links: • Limitless - https://www.limitless.ai/  • Rewind - https://www.rewind.ai/  • Runway - https://runway.com/  • Hoffman Institute - https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/  • Pump - https://pump.fun/board  • ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/  — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it's called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam's List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Join us for an insightful chat with Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway and a visionary in AI and finance, on this episode of Count Me In! Host Adam Larson sits down with Siqi to explore the incredible potential of AI in streamlining our work, making complex tasks more intuitive. Discover the fascinating world of prompt engineering and how Runway, Siqi's brainchild, is redefining tools for strategic thinking.Siqi shares his unique journey from working on Mars rovers to revolutionizing financial planning. Dive into a discussion on the democratization of data, the evolution of finance from a backward-looking to a forward-thinking strategy, and the shortcomings of traditional tools like spreadsheets. This episode is full of compelling insights on making financial models accessible and integrating context seamlessly into complex projects. Sponsor:Today's episode is brought to you by U.S. Bank. U.S. Bank is a trusted financial partner for our clients, businesses and communities. We believe in doing the right thing and putting people first. It's an honor to be recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute for the tenth consecutive year. From commercial credit cards and program management tools to innovative payment technologies and transportation offerings, U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems has the right solution to help your organization reduce payment costs, enhance control and streamline your entire payment processing function. We'll partner with you to uncover your challenges and provide smart, clear and honest guidance to help you meet the financial goals for your business. Visit usbank.com/corporatepayments to learn more.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I'm joined by Siqi Chen, a four-time founder and the CEO and CFO of his latest venture, Runway. Runway offers a modern, user-friendly platform for financial modeling, headcount planning, and departmental budgeting—proudly branding itself as “the finance platform your team doesn't hate.” With its distinctive marketing and brand-building approach, Runway has garnered significant attention. (Full disclosure: I'm an investor in the company.) Siqi and I discuss his journey from building some of the most viral social games in Silicon Valley to founding Runway. We also delve into the challenges faced by technical founders, the art of viewing a business as a product, and how Siqi has sharpened his strategic thinking. Other key topics include: • Lessons from founding Serious Business • Critiques of Zynga's strategy and the story of selling to them • Practical advice for building trust • Insights into Leaders in Tech and Stanford's GSB program • The importance of crafting clear, universally understood company values • An overview of Runway's platform, mission, and values • A fresh take on the fallacy of work-life balance • And so much more! — Brought to you by: Vanta – Automate compliance, manage risk, and prove trust—continuously. ⁠⁠Get $1,000 off⁠⁠. — Where to find Siqi Chen: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siqic/ • X: https://x.com/blader/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blader/ • Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/founder/ Where to find Eric: • Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ericries.carrd.co/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  • Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ericriesshow.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  • YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@theericriesshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  — In This Episode We Cover: (00:00) Meet Siqi Chen (02:30) How Siqi came up with the idea for Mafia and the early years of gaming on Facebook (05:10) The early investors in Mafia (05:36) Siqi's meeting with Keith Rabois and Max Levchin (08:15) How Siqi was influenced by the Lean Startup approach (11:04) How quickly Siqi's career took off after moving to San Francisco  (11:48) Founding Serious Business and creating Friends for Sale (14:20) How Serious Business raised $5 million (16:20) Why Serious Business sold to Zynga  (17:20) The importance of prioritizing the business as much as the product (19:11) Siqi's learnings and advice for new founders  (23:25) What Siqi learned working at Zynga (27:18) Siqi's time running product  (29:20) Criticisms of Zynga and how they lost Eric's trust (33:42) The importance of trust and maintaining vision and mission (39:15) An overview of Runway  (44:38) What inspired Siqi to create Runway (50:43) What Siqi learned from user interviews (52:07) An example of time wasting inside a company (53:24) The values at Runway and why they changed  (58:35) Why you should write reflective values after having a high-performance team (1:00:40) How Leaders in Tech shaped Siqi's thoughts on values and building trust (1:03:13) How open feedback builds trust (1:08:20) The purpose of Runway (1:11:34) Siqi's struggles with strategy planning  (1:13:31) A top down approach to entrepreneurship and why it's not common (1:16:38) The importance of employees understanding their contributions and impact  (1:18:55) How Runway leverages AI  (1:22:12) Runway's dramatic launch with a timed lock (1:23:04) How Runway communicates value to customers  (1:24:54) Runway's process for brand building and high-quality design  (1:28:40) Lightning round You can find the transcript and references at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ericriesshow.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Production and marketing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://penname.co/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Eric may be an investor in the companies discussed.

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio & video production system. If you're looking to jumpstart your podcast miniseries or upgrade your podcast or video production please visit www.ListenDeck.com. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio. In this episode, the host John Siracusa had a remote chat with Siqi Chen, Co-founder & CEO of Runway. Runway is a SaaS company that offers a planning platform that allows businesses to create, manage, and share financial models and plans.  In this episode they discuss the need for a better FP&A platform that enables collaboration and strategic decision-making in finance. This is not Siqi's first company. During their chat Siqi shared his journey as an entrepreneur and the challenges he faced, including the impact of COVID-19 on his previous company.  Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio to hear next Thursdays episode with Omri Yacubovich from LamaAI. About the host: John is the founder of ListenDeck a full-service podcast and video production company, which has produced over 1500 episodes of various podcasts. He is the host of the ‘Bank On It' podcast, which features over 600 episodes starring high profile fintech leaders and entrepreneurs. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium

Episode 22: How can AI revolutionize business ideas in 2024? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) are joined by Siqi Chen (https://x.com/blader), CEO of Runway.com and a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in AI-related ventures. This episode delves into innovative AI business ideas that entrepreneurs can pursue in 2024. Siqi shares his insights on professional-grade AI tools for video production, the use of generative models, the impact of augmented reality, the potential ethical concerns, and unique concepts like AI email categorization systems. The discussion is light and conversational, touching on practical applications and futuristic ideas alike. Check out The Next Wave YouTube Channel if you want to see Matt and Nathan on screen: https://lnk.to/thenextwavepd — Show Notes: (00:00)Entertaining conversation about business ideas and creativity. (04:27) AI as a tool for thought, not doing. (09:50) Automatically categorizing emails based on specific criteria. (12:59) Custom newsletter curates content from various sources. (16:18) Brilliant Labs offers camera glasses with display. (17:08) Remember people's faces with AI image recognition. (21:12) Create hallucinated Wikipedia through generative model. (23:36) AI art tool generates infinite images from prompts. (29:18) Creating AI girlfriends through realistic interaction tech. (32:23) AI connecting people through incentives and apps. (34:25) Encouraging audience to subscribe and tune in. — Mentions: Siqi Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siqic/ Runway: https://runway.com/ Sanebox: https://www.sanebox.com/ Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Feedly: https://feedly.com/ Jellypod: https://jellypod.ai/ — Check Out Matt's Stuff: • Future Tools - https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/ • Blog - https://www.mattwolfe.com/ • YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow — Check Out Nathan's Stuff: Newsletter: https://news.lore.com/ Blog - https://lore.com/ The Next Wave is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Darren Clarke // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Siqi Chen is a Silicon Valley investor and the founder of Runway, the finance platform you won't hate. (04:30) Why a company should start with a story (10:45) Hiring the executive producer of House of Cards as an advisor (15:20) How to avoid telling the same story as other startups (21:09) VR: Bullish or bearish? (26:30) Why good design is still underrated in startups (35:47) Investing in companies, not niches (41:27) Tips for young product builders (42:56) Siqi's advice to me on managing engineers (46:40) The advice every first-time founder and manager should hear Jason Levin⁠⁠⁠ is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's ⁠⁠weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups⁠⁠. Follow Jason on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠. Follow Siqi on ⁠Twitter⁠ Subscribe to Jason on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.

@blader (Runway, Sandbox VR, Postmates, Hey) @kevingibbon (Shyp, Airhouse)

Nathan interviews Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway, about revolutionizing business finance through AI. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore how Runway is creating an intelligent business operating system that generates financial scenarios and explains complex metrics. Siqi shares insights on AI's future impact on finance, business, and society at large. Apply to join over 400 founders and execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Byrne Hobart, the writer of The Diff, is revered in Silicon Valley. You can get an hour with him each week. See for yourself how his thinking can upgrade yours. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rANlV54GCARLgMOtpkzKt Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riff-with-byrne-hobart-and-erik-torenberg/id1716646486 SPONSORS: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/ Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:02:45) Runway (00:06:11) AI features (00:12:10) Defining the syntax (00:14:48) How AI has been expressed since GPT-3 (00:18:32) When did it become clear that the models were getting good enough? (00:24:29) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave (00:26:38) How the model is being asked to generate a scenario (00:26:38) What will drive the most improvement? (00:28:50) How Runway can help you make decisions (00:37:47) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad (00:39:34) Runway as a business operating system (00:39:51) How does the product work? (00:44:31) What does the future hold? (00:47:34) The frontier model has passed the average person (00:51:18) AI tools for operations (00:55:21) How to get the best out of AI models (01:00:39) How AI models can write as you (01:02:43) AGI, work, and the future (01:08:33) AI safety, regulation, and the future (01:11:26) Closing thoughts (01:12:20) Outro

Hosts @kevingibbon (Shyp, Airhouse) @julien (Breather, Practice)  @sm (Winnie)

Get an inside look at Runway - the visually stunning finance platform that's breaking conventions and captivating users with its approach to making finance fun again. In this interview, founder and CEO Siqi Chen shares the arduous 3-year journey of iterating on the product from its inception during a meeting with the a16z team, working alongside early design partners, and the key inflection points that transformed Runway into what it is today. He emphasizes the importance of storytelling, having the data from different company functions centralized and in communication with each other, and fostering a culture where work, and finance in particular, is genuinely fun. Whether you're in finance or appreciate great product design, this is a must-watch episode. This show is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co --- SPONSORS: Attio is the next generation of CRM. It's powerful, flexible and easily configures to the unique way your startup runs, whatever your go-to-market motion. The next era deserves a better CRM. Join ElevenLabs, Replicate, Modal and more at https://bit.ly/attioturpentine --- Recommended Podcast: Company Breakdowns Each episode of Company Breakdowns dives into S-1s and series B-and-beyond companies, interviewing founders and investors to break down the companies. First episode is on Rubrik - which just IPO'd. Coming up this season: Databricks, Reddit + more, Spotify Apple --- This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We're launching new shows every week, and we're looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co. --- LINKS MENTIONED: Runway Financial: https://runway.com/ Sandbox VR: https://sandboxvr.com/ X/SOCIAL: @sashaorloff (Sasha) @blader (Siqi) @runwayco (Runway) TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Introduction to Runway and Siqi Chen (01:30) Background and Inspiration for Runway (08:25) Challenges and Pivot during COVID-19 (12:29) Raising Capital and Product Iteration (14:57) Sponsor: Attio (16:25) Balancing Feature Parity and Novelty (17:30) arly Design Partners and Customers (19:36) Building an Audience and Storytelling (23:01) Mission and Vision of Runway (26:13) Convincing Users to Leave Excel (38:05) Demo of Runway (41:45) Development and Design Process (42:49) Product Features and Future Plans (44:43) Company Culture and Team (46:45) Future of Runway

【聊了什么The What】 等等，先别划走。就算你对篮球的知识仅限于篮球是圆的，这可能依旧是一期有趣的播客。 体育从来都不止关于体育，竞技体育从来都是流行文化的塑造者也被时代的思潮所塑造。如果你也关注美国竞技体育，尤其是篮球，很难不感受到一个巨大的女子篮球浪潮正在袭来。谁能想到从2019年至今，电视观看人数最高的篮球比赛是大学女篮的总决赛？1870万人次的观看数字远远超越了过去几年NBA的总决赛（丹福掘金对不起），也在互联网上掀起了讨论的热潮。 女子篮球的崛起也与诸多社会议题息息相关。我们与The Athletic的小帆和布鲁克林篮网的思齐一起，聊了聊那些隐藏在数字和赛事之后备受关注的问题：女篮突破了哪些障碍才走到了今天这一步？是什么因素促成了这场变革？我们能从中窥见哪些值得关注的趋势？ Sports have never been merely about the games themselves; they shape the popular culture we engage with, from fashion to music, reflecting the cultural zeitgeist. Those who have been closely following American sports will have noticed the surging popularity of women's college basketball and its standout stars—Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers, Kamilla Cardoso, and many others. Remarkably, the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship was the most-watched basketball game on television since 2019, attracting a staggering 18.7 million viewers. This viewership even surpassed last year's NBA Finals (sorry, Nuggets), sparking widespread discussion both online and offline. In this conversation, we talked to Yifan from The Athletic and Siqi from the Brooklyn Nets, and delved into the factors beyond mere statistics, exploring the obstacles these athletes had to overcome for women's basketball to achieve its current prominence. 【时间轴 The When】 00:00 今年的大学女篮有多火？ 15:45 男篮和女篮收入差距能有多大？当女篮在要求涨薪水的时候他们在要求什么？ 24:30 假设天降两个非常有天赋的初中生——凯文和凯莉杜兰特，他们从新秀到退役的职业道路会有什么不同？ 52:17 为什么不能让篮筐低一点呢？ 01:13:18 站在女性、少数族裔、酷儿交叉口的WNBA 00:00 How popular is women's college basketball this year? 15:45 Exploring the income gap between men's and women's basketball: What highlighting this disparity matters? It's not just about income. 24:30 Imagining two highly talented middle school students—Kevin and Kelly Durant—dropped into the world: How would their career trajectories differ from rookies to retirement? 52:17 Why isn't the basketball hoop height lowered for women? 01:13:18 The WNBA at the intersection of gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ identities 【疲惫红书 CyberRed】 除了播客以外，疲惫娇娃的几个女的在小红书上开了官方账号，我们会不定期发布【疲惫在读】、【疲惫在看】、【疲惫旅行】、【疲惫Vlog】等等更加轻盈、好玩、实验性质的内容。如果你想知道除了播客以外我们在关注什么，快来小红书评论区和我们互动。 Apart from the podcast, we have set up an official account on Xiaohongshu. We will periodically post content such as “CyberPink Reading,” “CyberPink Watching,” “CyberPink Traveling,” “CyberPink Vlog,” and more. Those are lighter, more fun and more experimental stuff about our lives. Leave us some comments on Xiaohongshu! 【买咖啡 Please Support Us】 如果喜欢这期节目并愿意想要给我们买杯咖啡： 海外用户：https://www.patreon.com/cyberpinkfm 海内用户：https://afdian.net/@cyberpinkfm 商务合作邮箱：cyberpinkfm@gmail.com 商务合作微信：CyberPink2022

It's impossible to overstate the impact of the first two months of 2024 within the history of women's surfing. Between the earth-shattering efforts of Caity Simmers, Molly Picklum and Bettylou Sakura Johnson on the North Shore, Sally Fitzgibbons furthering her ISA GOAT status, and multiple new Olympians qualifying in Puerto Rico, including 14-year-old Chinese surfer Siqi Yang, boundaries continue to be broken left and right.On this week's episode Shan and Rach go deep into it all. Much deeper, in fact, than they had any intention of doing. But if you're a fan of women's surfing, this is the conversation you've been waiting for. Also dropped into the episode are conversations with three new Olympians, including Siqi, as well as the now four-time ISA World Surfing Games gold medalist, Sally Fitzgibbons.Chapters00:00 - Intro06:53 - ISA World Surfing Games / Olympic Qualifiers13:28 - Camilla Kemp Interview20:44 - Janire Gonzalez-Extabarri Interview23:19 - Sally Fitzgibbons Interview41:08 - Siqi Yang Interview43:25 - Pipeline is For the GirlsInfoMusic: Dry Grass, courtesy of Body TypeContact: info@womensurf.netInstagram: @the.double.upWeb: www.womensurf.net

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Runway, the modern and intuitive way to model, plan, and align your business for everyone on your team. Or, in Siqi's words, “revolutionizing the $80 trillion business industry”. A few months ago, Runway's new website went viral across the internet. Siqi takes us inside how that happened. He's no stranger to going viral, having previously built multiple companies that went from zero to millions of users within weeks, including the fastest growing product ever before ChatGPT took the crown in late 2022. — — — — Brought to you by Attio, the next generation of CRM. It's powerful, flexible and easily configures to the unique way your startup runs, whatever your go-to-market motion. The next era deserves a better CRM. Join OpenAI, Replicate, ElevenLabs and more at ⁠https://bit.ly/AttioThePeel⁠ — — — — Timestamps: (00:00) Intro(02:00) Sponsor: Attio (02:59) How Siqi goes viral (06:13) Why conversion doesn't always matter (11:23) How to make B2B software more fun (14:31) Working on the Curiosity and Spirit rovers at NASA (16:50) Re-designing at the entire codebase and product at his first startup job (21:13) Earning the nickname “FB Millz” making a million dollars building Facebook games (25:11) Selling to Zynga and building the fastest growing product before ChatGPT (28:36) Building a game with 90% Day 1 retention (30:09) Being played by Kim Kardashian, Jack Dorsey, and shut down by Tim Cook (32:10) Almost getting fired building a growth team at Postmates (35:04) Building Sandbox VR: “escape rooms in VR” (40:35) Meeting Kanye (44:38) Getting the idea for Runway when COVID hit (47:32) Why spreadsheets run every business (54:40) Disrupting the $80 trillion business industry (57:55) Making formulas 50x easier than Excel (01:02:32) Why Runway's building a painkiller (01:06:32) How to fundraise (01:08:32) Why the first question from an investor is the reason they won't invest (01:11:28) How to tell a company's story (01:15:23) The three layers of a story (01:17:28) The importance of positioning in storytelling (01:18:56) Runway's flexible remote work strategy (01:21:34) Why their hiring strategy changed over time (01:22:39) Siqi's single interview question & the three traits he looks for when hiring (01:26:10) Unlearning consumer to learn B2B (01:30:26) Navigating the first three years of no customers (01:31:45) What surprised Dylan Field the most about building Figma — — — — Referenced: Runway's website: https://runway.com/ Reform Collective Design Agency: https://www.reformcollective.com/ Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/ SandboxVR: https://sandboxvr.com/ Lulu Cheng's Android Playbook: https://www.piratewires.com/p/anduril-comms-strategy-early-days — — — — Where to find Siqi: Twitter: https://twitter.com/blader LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siqic/ Where to find Turner: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak/ Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it/

In an effort to become more comfortable in her own skin, literally, Siqu Mou utilized her joint MBA/MPA degree from Harvard and Stanford to find new solutions to age-old skincare problems. Relying on new technology and her entrepreneurial upbringing she founded HelloAva, the first online smart-skin consultant.Gil gets a peek into Siqi's early years where creativity and achievement were modeled first by her parents and later by her first boss at Morgan Stanley. She draws inspiration from both in her own role as a founder and CEO. Gil and Siqi also reminisce about her Israel Trek and its lasting impact on her life.More about storymarkTMstorymark is brought to you by itrek studios. itrek is a non-profit that inspires tomorrow's leaders through peer-led, week-long Israel Treks to experience Israel's innovation, diversity and complex reality firsthand. For more on itrek's mission, visit itrek.org.storymark is hosted by Gil Galanos. Our Producer is Patrick Emile. Our Associate Producer is Rebekah Sebastian. Our Editor is Zev Levi. Special thanks to the itrek marketing team.Connect with storymarkWant to continue the story?Sign up for the storymark newsletter which will keep you up-to-date on show news and future guests: storymarkpodcast.orgDid you enjoy this episode?Help us spread the storymark word!Please rate and review storymark on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Want to see the faces behind the voices? Follow us on Instagram: @storymarkWant to say hello or recommend a guest?Drop us a note: storymark@itrek.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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竹子说公司第1期全新上线！今天竹子邀请了亚马逊的客户方案经理、前德勤的高级咨询顾问，Siqi老师，一起来谈谈在德勤的工作感受、工作收获、行业建议~除此之外，还分享了德勤喜欢什么样的candidate？刚入行业的新人需要什么特质？ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/new-york-bamboo/message

In this episode, Auntie Laura chats with Jazmyn Vent, owner of Siqiñiq Design about owning a business and how her business has connected her to her culture.

在新年即将来临之际，我们回到了史前时代！你是否思考过，酒精是如何产生的？为什么人类可以摄入大量酒精？世界上最早的酿酒遗迹是在哪里？你是否知道，早在5000年前，我们的祖先就发明了和现代啤酒发酵罐惊人相似的锥形发酵罐，甚至，啤酒还多次拯救过世界？本期节目中，我们和建筑史学研究者、啤酒历史爱好者Siqi，聊了聊有关史前发酵酒靠谱以及不靠谱的那些事儿。

在新年即将来临之际，我们回到了史前时代！ 你是否思考过，酒精是如何产生的？为什么人类可以摄入大量酒精？世界上最早的酿酒遗迹是在哪里？ 你是否知道，早在5000年前，我们的祖先就发明了和现代啤酒发酵罐惊人相似的锥形发酵罐，甚至，啤酒还多次拯救过世界？ 本期节目中，我们和建筑史学研究者、啤酒历史爱好者Siqi，聊了聊有关史前发酵酒靠谱以及不靠谱的那些事儿。

Welcome to Episode 25 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Siqi Mou and Kailu Guan on this week's episode. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned! Siqi Mou is the CEO and Co-Founder of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor and also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York before starting HelloAva. Siqi was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 (Consumer Tech) in 2019 and Inc Magazine’s 30 Rising Stars Under 30 in 2018, and has been featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, USNews, Marie Claire, Allure, The Cut, WWD, Fast Company, etc. Siqi held an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and B.A. in Economics from Stanford University where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Kailu Guan is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of HelloAva. Kailu is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer. Her areas of concentration include human-centered design, fashion design, augmented reality (AR), and wearable technology. She has held several positions at IDEO, Intel and Hermes. Kailu has exhibited her work at SXSW, TechCrunch, Le Révélateur D’innovation Paris and MIT Media Lab. Vogue Italia, WWD, Dezeen, Fashionista, Viewpoint, and Computer Arts are among the publications that have covered her work. She graduated from Parsons and Central Saint Martins College of Arts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianhustlenetwork/support

Siqi Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Runway. Runway is working on a business financial tools built for the 21st century. Siqi was was formerly the VP of Growth at Postmates and ran Sandbox VR before starting Runway.

Thank you for tuning into "Starting Small", a podcast about brand development, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world. In this episode, I am joined by Siqi Mou, Co-Founder and CEO of HelloAva, a personal skin care consultant. Suffering from acne, Siqi was curious on why the same regiments that would work for her friends, wouldn't work for her. During Siqi's time at Stanford, she was involved with a case study, exposing that most women weren't aware of what they were buying and putting on their skin. HelloAva allows for users to access 24/7 personal help  through both artificial intelligence and human interaction. Through providing skin types and demographics, HelloAva will provide a personal recommendation on what skin care might work best. Listen as Siqi shares stories from her upbringing in China, years at Oxford and Stanford, and the overall development of HelloAva. HelloAva can be found at: https://helloava.co Sponsor: Black WolfThank you to this episodes sponsor, Black Wolf. Black Wolf is a men's skin care brand that is solution focused. If you have razor bumps, body acne, oily skin, etc - Black Wolf has a solution for you. Black Wolf can be found at: https://blackwolfnation.com Follow Starting Small:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingsmallpod/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Startingsmallpod/?modal=admin_todo_tourLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/cameronnagle  

In this episode, Siqi talks about how AI-powered smart platform provides custom skincare product recommendations.

Today's episode of the podcast is Part 2 of our Oscar Week coverage!  This week I have four-time Oscar nominee Marshall Curry and Siqi Song! Marshall was on the show last year for his documentary short "A Night at the Garden" that was nominated for an Oscar and it was great to have him back on the show. While this is Siqi Song's first Oscar nomination, she was also part of the art department for the Oscar nominated animated film "Missing Link".  It was great to talk with Marshall about the new venture into Live Action Shorts instead of the Documentaries that he's best known for, and hear about how his film "The Neighbors Window" came together. Siqi's film "Sister" was her final student film project that tells such a unique story of the One Child Law in China. She used an incredible form of stop motion animation using yarn to build all of her characters.  I had such a great time talking to both of these Oscar nominees and can't want to see what happens this Sunday during the 92nd Academy Awards. Make sure to visit ShortsTV on the site below to be able to watch all of the Oscar Nominated Shorts or find them in a theater near you.  Thanks, Marshall and Siqi! Enjoy the episode. 

A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently? Directors Statement - The genesis of SISTER came from a question I get asked a lot throughout my childhood: What is it like to grow up with a sibling? As a “Little Sister” myself, I was born as the second child in my family at the height of China’s One Child Policy. At that time, it’s really hard to have a second child in one family. Luckily, my parents put in a lot of effort to keep me and raise me. Otherwise, I would not have existed and lived a life. Although many other “Second Child” in my generation never had a chance to get born. Therefore most of my friends don’t have siblings. Growing up with my brother has been a privilege and a bittersweet experience for me. Throughout my childhood, the question that had been asked a lot by friends is that, what is it like to grow up with a sibling? So, I have been telling stories about me and my brother since I was a kid. And I have heard stories of my friends and cousins could not have little sisters and brothers because of the one-child policy. The narrator of this film, for example, told me that he lost a younger sister when he was four years old. He always imagines how his life would be if his sister was ever born. So, I want to make a film to tell my friends what it is like to grow up with a sibling. More importantly, I also want to tell the stories of my friends, who would’ve had a different life if their siblings were born. This film is dedicated to this group memory. - Siqi Song Director’s Biography - Siqi Song is a Chinese writer, director and animator, currently based in Los Angeles. Her animated films have been recognized internationally by Sundance, SXSW, BAFTA, and ASIFA-Hollywood. Siqi is an alumnus of California Institute of the Arts and China Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is named a Film Independent Directing Fellow in 2018 and BAFTA Los Angeles Newcomer in 2019.  For news and updates go to: songsiqi.com/sister Trailer for Sister: vimeo.com/260285746

Sister (2018) directed by Siqi SongWebsite: http://songsiqi.com/sister Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/260285746 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siqi.song/ Tonko House has been blessed with tremendous support from this amazing community of animation industry. One thing we love talking about is "animation and filmmaking." And another thing we are most grateful is our talented circle of friends. Tonkocast is all about what we love about---talking animation with our friends once a month.Website: http://www.tonkohouse.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JyYj-OHh2xzrpf11zndggInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonkohouse/**Tonkocast is a total DIY operation recorded with non-professional equipment. So excuse our home made quality everyone!

Kailu Guan and Siqi Mou of HelloAva.co, AI powered customized skincare. Startup Millionaires Podcast Episode 001 Kailu Guan and Siqi Mou with Kevin Harrington, Seth Greene, and Ray Blanco, featuring guest host, Chuck Pettid. Siqi Mou is the CEO and Co-Founder of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York before starting HelloAva. Siqi was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 (Consumer Tech) in 2019 and Inc Magazine’s 30 Rising Stars Under 30 in 2018. Kailu is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer. Her areas of concentration include human-centered design, fashion design, augmented reality (AR), and wearable technology. She has held several positions at IDEO, Intel and Hermes. Kailu has exhibited her work at SXSW, TechCrunch, Le Révélateur D’innovation Paris and MIT Media Lab. Vogue Italia, WWD, Dezeen, Fashionista, Viewpoint, and Computer Arts are among the publications that have covered her work. She graduated from Parsons and Central Saint Martins College of Arts. Listen to this informative Startup Millionaires Podcast episode with Kailu Guan and Siqi Mou about HelloAva.co and their AI customized skincare that helps people find the right products for their skin. This episode’s topics include: ●     How to use different questions to pinpoint a user’s data. ●     Why HelloAva is a tech company and not a beauty company. ●     How HelloAva’s algorithm can be used for other data collection. Links Mentioned: HelloAva.co Connect with Kailu and Siqi Website: helloava.co  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HelloAVAbeauty/ Twitter @HelloAvaUSA Instagram @helloavabeauty LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/company/hello-ava/?viewAsMember=true    

Skincare is one of the most important areas in the realm of beauty, and it's also one of the hardest to master! More often than not, trying out a new skincare product can lead to disappointment, or worst, breakouts. With all the new technology constantly emerging all over the world, Siqi knew that there had to be a better way! And there was, but no one had done it yet. In 2016, HelloAva was born as the first AI skincare consultant that can actually read a person's skin to find products that are the best match for them. When she's not busy running a million-dollar company, you can find Siqi serving as a music ambassador for Carnegie Hall, as she is a seasoned concert pianist. For more on HelloAva, visit the link below: https://helloava.co Highlights "I had to take a chance on myself and not worry about 'What if this fails?' or 'What if this doesn't go well?' because those moments will come, but then we will figure it out" [23:15] On The Dot Woman Content Corner Looking for more tips, motivation and direction? Tune into On The Spot with Melinday Garvey every Thursday on your favorite streaming service. Subscribe to our daily email newsletter and audio brief, Four Minutes with On The Dot. You'll receive examples of relatable female role models in over 10 industries, plus quick stats on empowering women in the world, and to top it off, an inspirational quote that’s sure to jumpstart your day. Tune in to the audio brief—uploaded daily to all streaming apps— or check your email for a little daily boost of positivity and empowerment. Check us out on social! We are focused on your success, so let us know what you think by chatting with us at @onthedotwoman (www.twitter.com/onthedotwoman) on Twitter, Instagram (www.instagram.com/onthedotwoman), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/onthedotwoman). Special Guest: Siqi Mou.

Today’s podcast is a fifteen-minute talk with Siqi Chen, CPO of Sandbox VR. Sandbox VR has recently received 16 million dollar funding, which is the largest amount of fundraising that’s been into VR since the original Oculus company. Listen to what Siqi Chen has to say about the expansion of the company, why China has taken a big leap in terms of retail experiences in shopping malls and why narrative is becoming more and more important in the experiences they offer.

Siqi Mou is the Co-Founder and CEO of HelloAva, an AI-powered personal skin care consultant. Prior to starting HelloAva, she was a financial news anchor at Bloomberg TV and held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO, and the Federal Reserve. Siqi has also been a concert pianist for over 20 years, and she currently serves as the Music Ambassador for Carnegie Hall.   Siqi received her MBA from Stanford, her MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and her BA in Economics from Stanford University. She was awarded Inc. Magazine's 30 Rising Stars Under 30 in 2018 and L'Oreal's Women in Digital in 2017.   For more information, visit: http://Brandeis.edu From the Dorm Room to the Boardroom is produced by Podcast Masters

I first met Siqi Chen at a Lightspeed CEO dinner hosted by Jeremy Liew. We bonded over our mutual love of product design and fascination with customer engagement. Ever since, I’ve followed Siqi’s career from Zynga product lead to fast-pivoting startup CEO to VR executive. I love how Siqi’s ideas about vision and leadership keep evolving. This is a guy who’s always learning. Listen in and learn how this globally-minded entrepreneur is applying his hard-won innovation lessons to carving out a new category of location-based entertainment.

This week, our featured topic is Chinese students overseas. There are about 800,000 of them, and according to China’s Ministry of Education, nearly 80 percent choose to return to China soon after finishing their education. This group is referred to as “sea turtles” (海龟; a pun on 海归 hǎiguī, meaning “to return from overseas”) for their ambitious swim to and from faraway shores. Historically, overseas Chinese students were almost exclusively from the wealthiest and best-educated families in Chinese society, but nowadays, the group is dramatically more diverse. The new students abroad, however, face many of the same identity issues that the previous generations faced. Chinese students who are studying at American universities are, as Eric Fish put it in an article on SupChina recently, caught in a cross fire. Many of these 300,000-plus students find themselves grappling with their Chinese — or, as most Americans simply see it, “Asian” — identity for the first time, and are taken aback by the biased views that many Americans have about China. They feel forced to choose: to either defend their country against ignorant attacks, or take very Americanized worldviews to prove that they are not “brainwashed.” But if they go too far and adopt too liberal of a viewpoint, they may get accused back home of being a “white-left” (白左 báizuǒ; a derogatory term for white Western liberals). To discuss the ideology and identity issues at play, as well as more routine aspects of the Chinese student experience in America, we welcome Eric Fish — the author of China’s Millennials, who is now working on a second book about university students from China in the U.S. — and Siqi Tu — a graduate student in sociology at the City University of New York looking at Chinese high school students in America. The podcast was recorded live in New York at the China Institute on March 14. Recommendations: Jeremy: For anyone who (like him) is having trouble with the American bureaucracy regulating septic tanks as they try to build a house in a holler (what people in Tennessee call a hollow, or a small valley between two hills), Jeremy recommends the Sun-Mar Compact Composting Toilet and the EcoJohn Waterless Incinerating Toilet. No septic permit necessary! Siqi: Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It’s written by a Nigerian immigrant to America about her experience figuring out racial identity in the country, finding love, and then undergoing reverse culture shock upon returning to Nigeria.   Eric: Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization, by Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller. It’s about the experience of what is considered the first group of Chinese students to come over to the U.S., way back in 1872. Kaiser: America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, by Anatol Lieven, an incredibly prescient book written six years ago.

In the first of a series of conversations with today's leading growth practitioners, we sit down with Siqi Chen, the former VP of Growth at Postmates. Siqi advocated for and founded the growth team at Postmates, and here he explains where his team found the low-hanging fruit in its earliest days, when being data-driven goes too far, the values that guided his growth team and much more.Siqi took a new role the end of 2017 as CPO at GloStation, an Alibaba-backed VR escape room experience, and he also opens up about the challenges he now faces growing a product that's much more difficult to measure than any app.

We had the opportunity to sit down with Siqi Mou this week who is the founder of the startup beauty company Hello AVA, a bot that provides personalized skincare recommendations. She received a MBA/MPA-ID joint degree from Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Graduate School of Business and previously worked in the finance industry. Siqi and her team have done an incredible job of doing customer discovery. They spoke with with over 300 people before they even launched their product. In the process they realized that people were more likely to talk to you if they could give them something in return that went beyond a traditional survey. Hear Siqi's amazing story in her own words on this podcast! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venture-vignettes/support

Siqi Chen is the VP of Growth at Postmates, the leading on-demand logistics provider.  He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Hey (acquired by Postmates), maker of Heyday, an automated journal app, Stolen (the short-lived, but incredibly viral Twitter hit), and Famous.af (Stolen’s less controversial successor).  Siqi previously served as the GM at Zynga after an acquisition of his Facebook app startup, Serious Business, maker of the ridiculously viral Friends for Sale, as well as stints at Powerset, Veoh, and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. In this episode, we learn how Siqi leverages data to drive growth and build viral products, why the ability to build rapidly growing businesses failed to make Heyday stick, and how he applies these lessons to give super powers to everyday people. Learn more about Siqi Chen and Postmates! Follow Siqi on Twitter @blader. Siqi's favorite book: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Something Siqi spends too much money on that he doesn't regret: Travel & food Siqi's favorite travel destination: Osaka, Japan Siqi's favorite restaurant (in the world): Saison _____ Executive producer & host: Joe Mahavuthivanij Edited by: Debra Lin Theme music by: Music for Makers Logo design: Debra Lin

Today, our Siqi got the chance to land at a beautiful place called Brown Bluff. There they not only saw the lovely penguins, what's more exciting is that they were very lucky to have a glacier hiking on a beautiful day. Reporter: Landing ashore is always the most exciting part of traveling to Antarctica. There you can get the chance to watch different species of penguins and seals closely and enjoy the wonderful view of the whole island. And today we landed at Brown Bluff, a towering rust-coloured and ice capped, flat topped mountain. Our tour guide Juan Carlos gave us a brief introduction about this beautiful place. (Sb1, Juan) It's a continental landing. And Brown Bluff is also home to A**** and G**** Penguins. (penguins) Do you hear the sound? (am) Yes! They are from the lovely penguins. Now I can say penguins are definitely the cutest animal I've ever seen. At Brown Bluff, there are two kinds of penguins: A**** and G**** Penguins. It's very easy to tell. Will Wagstaff is the penguin expert in the expedition team. (SB2, Will) After observing these penguins for half an hour, I found something interesting. Compared to G**** penguins, A**** penguins seem noisier and they never stop. They always keep walking, jumping or swimming. And they always stay together with their friends or families. So you'll usually see a group of them. And today besides watching the lovely penguins, we were so lucky to get the chance to have glacier hiking, which means a guided walk up a glacier. Walking conditions here were over sections of ice and snow and could be very slippery and difficult in areas. It's much harder than normal hiking. (am Hana) During the walk, many people gave up. But fortunately, I climbed to the top. The view was fantastic above. So not being on the top, you'll never know what a wonderful view you can get. But only if conditions allow can you have the opportunity to go glacier hiking. The tour guide Juan Carlos told us there are many conditions, such as it has to to be accessible, the surface can't be too steep. (Sb3, Juan) So we are really lucky today. But we're not always so lucky. The weather in Antarctica is always changeable, you'll never know what will happen in next minute. For example, yesterday, we landed at a placed called penguin island, but right after a few minutes, we were called back to the ship because strong wind is coming. On our way back, the wind became stronger and stronger, all my clothes, bags and gloves got wet by the sea wave even though they are all water-proof. And the tour guide told us once they encountered exactly the same weather when they landed at penguin island. And they were forced to stay there for over 20 hours waiting to be rescued. So now I truly understand the saying that in Antarctica it's not the clocks or calendars, but the weather to determine you itinerary and timetable. Just like what our expedition leader said, this is Antarctica, you'll never exciting parts of this white continent.