Chad & Lindsey welcome in the new year at thoughtbot, discussing actually having a budget, setting corporate goals, and the rise and fall of 'Use Your Best Judgement' as thoughtbot's principle zero.

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Tiffany Chu, CEO of Remix, discusses the different entities involved in transportation initiatives, pivoting to service an unanticipated user-group, and utilizing open-source in civic tech.

• Remix
• OpenStreetMap
• Tiffany on Twitter

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Lokesh Dani, founder of Xopolis, discusses researching the future of work, democratizing opportunity in the labor market, and focusing on the user experience.

• Xopolis
• NSF Innovation Corps
• Lokesh on LinkedIn

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Karen Rubin, CRO at Owl Labs, discusses embracing playful aspects of your product, tailoring their marketing focus, managing growth in a B2B e-commerce company, the landscape of remote work, the complexities of building and selling a physical product, lessons learned from launching products at Hubspot, and building a team with strong female leadership.

• Owl Labs
• Owl as a Bat
• The Company Culture Cookbook
• Karen on Twitter

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Robin Carnahan, Director of State & Local Practice at 18F, discusses introducing tech into government as the Missouri Secretary of State, facilitating tech-education within the federal government, and the types of needs to which 18F responds.

• 18F
• login.gov
• cloud.gov
• LaunchCode
• Robin on Twitter

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Geoff DiMasi, founder of Punk Ave. & Apostrophe, discusses his drive to build a CMS, balancing maintaining a service company while building a product (as well as the thought-process of spinning out a product into its own company), the Philadelphia tech-scene, and transitioning to a remote company.

• ApostropheCMS
• Apostrophe Open Source
• Open Source at thoughtbot
• Upcase
• Objectives and Key Results(OKR) System
• Indy Hall Coworking Space
• JAMstack
• Headless CMS
• Geoff on Twitter

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Alex Cornell, co-founder of Cocoon, discusses opportunity cost, prototyping methodology, having design skills as a founder, designing for intuition, and being invested in the problem you want to solve.

• Cocoon
• Notion
• Origami Prototyping
• Apply to Y Combinator
• Alex on Twitter

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Heather Ames, co-founder and COO of Neurala, discusses automated visual-inspection, balancing research with deployment, the challenges of productizing AI, and finding the right product/customer fit.

• Neurala
• Brain Builder
• Heather on Twitter

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Pariss Athena, Hiring & Product Team Member at G2i, creator of #BlackTechTwitter, and founder of Black Tech Pipeline, shares her journey from never hearing about code to viral awareness campaign creator, as well as discusses visibility, finding value on twitter, and life online with thousands of followers.

• Resilient Coders
• The Tweet that started #BlackTechTwitter
• "Hannibal Buress Is Building An Arts And Technology Center For The Future Masterminds Of The West Side"
• Black Tech Pipeline
• Pariss on Twitter

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Jennifer Dary, founder of Plucky, rejoins the podcast to discuss the rarity of listening, what it feels like to have a six year-old company, and conducts a 1:1 for managers with Lindsey & Chad.

• Plucky
• Jennifer on Giant Robots ep 270
• Executive Coach or Therapist?
• 1:1 Manager Pack
• 'So Now You're a Manager' Training
• D&D Online
• Plucky Newsletter
• Jennifer on Twitter

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