Designing a Culture of Reinvention
Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself... twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming ...
15 Sep 202042min
Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz
"I'm in a movie, but it's the wrong movie."For better or for worse, we tell the story of entrepreneurs as one of the mythical hero's journey: that's there's a call, a test (multiple tests!), a destina...
12 Sep 202038min
The Question of Education
Monopoly, oligopoly, cartel. All three of those words can describe the (not so) modern education system today, given the cost structures, economics, and accreditation capture -- in everything from who...
11 Sep 202058min
Pandemic Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect?
This episode examines the potential for misuse and fraud among those applying for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—and how fintech and software provide overlooked tools to stop it. On March 27th...
4 Sep 202040min
Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond
Okay, so we know community is important -- whether for developer relations for your product or other types of communities -- but how do we measure the success of community initiatives and even artifac...
30 Aug 202033min
Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses
There is no spoon. Or rather, “There is no such thing as ‘data’, there’s just frozen models”, argues Peter Wang, the co-founder and CEO of Anaconda — who also created the PyData conferences and grew t...
21 Aug 202044min
Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate
This episode is all about education and technology, a topic that’s especially top of mind this week as students in much of the country return to school—virtually. The intersection of learning and tech...
17 Aug 202048min
On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from (what’s been traditionally been up to) 12 years or so of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? What will...
14 Aug 202056min
