How to Go Fast and Not Break Things: Why Great Brakes Help You Accelerate and Innovate. Featuring John Mileham, CTO of Betterment
“Nobody’s going to drive as fast on the straightaway if they don’t have good brakes because if that’s not available, then you can’t go fast confidently.” John Mileham is the CTO of Betterment, and he’s also a race car driving instructor. Though they seem like vastly different roles, he has the same focus in both: […]
Don’t Throw Spaghetti at the Wall: How to Build an MVP at a Big Enterprise. Featuring Neil Caron, Product and Design Leader at Gartner
“The lean startup and MVP model is absolutely the right mindset to have, but that doesn’t mean that you have to throw spaghetti at the wall.” Neil Caron, Product and Design Leader at Gartner, is doing something hard: helping a big company to innovate. Gartner is the company many technology buyers turn to for […]
Enough Putting Lipstick on the Pig: Why Moov Is Rebuilding Payment Infrastructure from the Ground Up. Featuring CEO Wade Arnold
Wade Arnold: Marc Andreessen is famous for saying every business is going to become a software company. And then my board member, Angela Strange, said, “Every software company will become a fintech.” And I said, “Not if they have to learn payments.” Dan Blumberg: That’s Wade Arnold, founder and CEO of Moov, a fintech […]
Putting People First: How Jack Altman Built Lattice Into an Employee Performance Powerhouse
“We just experienced these pains of people feeling unsatisfied, they didn’t necessarily feel like there were easy opportunities to be listened to by the company.” CEO Jack Altman is determined to help make work meaningful, and founding Lattice is a big part of that goal. Lattice is an employee performance and engagement software company that […]
Microgravity, FTW! Why Advanced Computer Chips and Cancer Treatments MaySoon Be Made… IN SPACE. Featuring Jana Stoudemire, Director of In-SpaceManufacturing, Axiom Space
“When we talk about future cities in space, it seems like they’re really far away. The truth is, it’s happening right now. We’re building those.” That’s the mind-blowing reality that Jana Stoudemire works in everyday at Axiom Space, a leading space infrastructure developer based in Texas. Axiom is building a successor to the International Space […]
Building Better Data Networks for the People – and Machines! – of Tomorrow. Featuring Ali Shaikh, Chief Product Officer of Graphiant
“People using this isn’t the thing I’m thinking about. Human beings can tolerate high latency and delays to a certain level. Machines cannot. AI cannot, IoT cannot.” As Chief Product Officer of Graphiant, Ali Shaikh is building data networks that are flexible, secure, and ready to meet the demands of the next generation of people […]
How Monte Carlo Prevents Data Downtime, Featuring Founder & CEO Barr Moses
“This problem was so painful and so meaningful to people that I just couldn’t believe a world where a solution to this didn’t exist.” When Barr Moses identified the very costly problem of what she coined “data downtime”, she knew she needed to solve it. Barr is the Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, a […]
How Data Teams Can Run An Offensive Playbook, Featuring Sol Rashidi, Former Chief Analytics Officer at Estée Lauder
“It’s not columns and rows, but it’s the fact that you could fundamentally increase consumer retention, consumer attention, consumer experience, and that’s the fun stuff.” That’s how Sol Rashidi pitched a data and analytics mindset to the world’s biggest companies, back before data was King (and AI became Queen). Sol is the former Chief Analytics […]
How Egnyte Found – And Keeps Finding – Its Niche. Featuring VP of Product Greg Neustaetter
“You attract security conscious customers. They push you and ask for more security focused features. You build those, you attract more of those companies.” That’s how Greg Neustaetter helped Egnyte find its niche, providing industrial-grade cloud file storage for compliance-focused clients. Greg has spent 11 years at Egnyte and as VP of Product, he’s helped […]
Fighting Cancer With Data: Featuring Flatiron Health CTO Cat Miller
“Anyone who knows anything about drug development would say it is a slow and painful process”. Cat Miller is CTO at Flatiron Health, a software company that uses technology to “clean up all the gunk in the trials industry”. Flatiron helps researchers develop new cancer treatments by making clinical trials run smarter and faster. They […]
