Founders In LA

By Ethan Cole, PhD

Welcome to the Founders In LA Podcast with Ethan Cole, PhD – where we shine the spotlight through the Product lens on some of the exceptional Startup Founders we have as part of the LA Tech Community ... more

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The podcast currently has 90 episodes available.

Founders In LA episodes:

June 05, 2023 The DeathTech @ LA TechWeek One: Sarah Grifferty, Tech Challenges of Closing Estates, and the Future of Death Tech
In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Sarah Grifferty, who, having experienced the loss of both parents at a young age, delves into the unique challenges and opportunities of working in the emerging DeathTech space. Fresh from the stage of LA TechWeek 2023's exclusive DeathTech event, Sarah provides a captivating overview of the industry, its evolution, and offers her insights into the exciting future of DeathTech.
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33min
May 31, 2023 The HealthTech Founder One: Thor Clark, Leading a HealthTech Engineering Team During COVID and Coding at Age 12
Thor Clark, a coding prodigy who wrote his first program at age 12, turned HealthTech leader, shares his experiences transitioning from a successful FinTech career to leading an Engineering Team in the HealthTech startup space during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Gain valuable insights into the unique challenges, exciting opportunities, and his predictions for the industry's future in the next 5 years.
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34min
May 25, 2023 The Change Management in the AI Era One: Maulik Parikh, graduating during a recession and how to prepare for your place in an AI automated world
Maulik Parikh, despite limited computer access in his childhood, earned a CS degree during a recession. In a challenging job market, he secured a B2B sales role at CompUSA before becoming a technology consultant at Accenture. Working with Fortune 500 companies, he learned valuable business lessons: prioritizing efficiency, leveraging technology, avoiding mistakes, planning for change management, and exuding confidence with clients. In the Era of AI, he advises preparing for automation's impact on roles and suggests utilizing abundant training resources like www.joinai.la to stay technologically relevant. With access to training at an all-time high, opportunities to upskill are plentiful.
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28min
May 18, 2023 The Make Things That Matter One: Andrew Skotzko, Growth Hacking, and Product As Value Creation
Andrew Skotzko reflects on his unexpected journey into Product Management. Initially a Marketer and Growth Hacker, Andrew delved into the realm of quantitative and experimental marketing strategies, which ultimately resulted in a transition into a full-stack Engineer. Discovering Product Management along the way, he joined Chill.com and later contributed to Pebble's e-commerce system. Focusing on growth-oriented Product Management, Andrew explains the concept of growth hacking and the pursuit of the "aha moment." He eventually shifted to "core" Product Management, where he now highlights the value creation process, understanding users' needs, and enabling progress in their lives.
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27min
May 09, 2023 The Winning the Silicon Valley Science Fair One: Adam Judelson & Aligning Product + Engineering
Adam Judelson describes what it was like winning the grand prize at the Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair (and 4th place in the International Competition) in high school, and how it has provided inspiration throughout his career. He also discusses what makes a great marriage between Product and Engineering Teams.
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30min
May 02, 2023 The Early Days of the Internet One: Elizabeth Osder on navigating your career in new technologies
Elizabeth Osder describes her experience working as the tip of the spear in what is now called “digital media” in the earliest days of the Internet. From her work on a private internet for the Associated Press to launching the New York Times’ first website.
She drops absolute gems of practical advice on how to address the integration and implementation of new technologies and suggestions for how to be aware of the unintended consequences of good intentions. This is the episode you want to listen to if you are figuring out what ChatGPT and generative AI might mean for your career path.
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25min
April 21, 2023 The CTO-as-a-Service One: Reza Rassool, disrupting Hollywood, refreshing a pioneer of Internet streaming and feature requests from Quinten Tarantino
Reza Rassool, CTO of RealNetworks, shares how he started his career by disrupting Hollywood with a revolutionary digital video editing platform that resulted in a technical Oscar and an Emmy. He later became a CTO-as-a-Service and now he and his team are refreshing a pioneer product of the Internet - from the dominant Internet streaming platform it was- into a world class AI driven facial recognition for live streaming video.
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49min
April 14, 2023 The Two-Sided Marketplace One: Kaelin Burns, Balancing 2 Sets of Customers & Adverse Impact Testing
Kaelin Burns shares how an American Literature major translated nicely into Product Management. She reveals why PMs are likely good essayists and intuited a lost chapter from Teresa Torres’ book, “Continuous Discovery Habits.” She also provides tips and tricks from her career working on two-sided marketplace discusses the importance of adverse impact testing; especially when it comes to AI tools to identify potential unintended impact of biases baked into the system.
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30min
April 06, 2023 The Bonus Track One: Chris Chenet, Tiers of Homelessness, Literal vs. Non-Literal Homelessness
This segment didn't make it into the full-length episode with Chris Chenet, Sr. Technical Advisor to the Deputy Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, but it explores the definition of homelessness, and different tiers of homelessness. I found it enlightening, and wanted to share it with you all, in case you learn something too.
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8min
March 27, 2023 The Women-Led Software Agency One: Margarita Mangino and International Woman’s Day
Margarita Mangino shares her journey from running a business at age 16 to running one of the few women led software development agencies on the planet. We also discuss how the gender gap in tech worsened during the pandemic and through the layoffs of 2022 and 2023 and her mission to help close it.
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29min

FAQs about Founders In LA:

How many episodes does Founders In LA have?

The podcast currently has 90 episodes available.