Liftoff by Bottle Rocket

Our guest this episode is Youri Bebic. n accomplished Chief Product Officer with deep experience in the FinTech industry. He applies a strong business lens to technology innovation balancing priorities during the development lifecycle.

He leads global product develop for new software service offerings at diebold. Before that he was the Global Head of Product & Innovation at MoneyGram. At Moneygram he oversaw a rapid period of growth with digital transactions growing over 150% annually.  Not only is he a great leader, he's a unique individual and avid mountain biker.

We dig into:

• How to show up and be your authentic self
• Being okay with saying, “I don’t know”
• The importance of trust
• Leading by doing, not just saying
• Attaining true “flow-states” 

Connect with Youri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/youri-bebic-5b50951/

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Until next time, friends...stay curious.

Our guest this episode is David Kidder, the NYT Best-Selling author of The Intellectual Devotional, The Startup Playbook featuring exclusive interviews with over 40 of the world's most influential CEOs and founders and New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth. 

He was an early angel investor in AirBnB and SpaceX and remains an angel investor for over 40 startups. And we’re not done! He's also a co-founder of Bionic, which offers proprietary organizational solutions to Fortune 100 companies.

On this episode we dig into:
-The difference between leading and managing.
-Getting out of a fixed mindset, and into an adaptable one.
-The 5 lenses that all successful people view the world through.
-The importance of Systems Thinking.
-The truth about the two realities of America that we live in.

…And our very first “Lighting Round”.

Discover more about David Kidder:
https://onbionic.com/
https://www.davidskidder.com/




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Until next time, friends...stay curious.

Our guest this week, Jennie Lewis, is the Strategic Services Lead at Airship. Airship (which of course is formerly Urban Airship) is a Customer Engagement Platform that create deeper connections with customers by delivering incredibly relevant, orchestrated messages on any channel.

In this episode  we talk:
-Attention
-Attrition
-The need for innovation
-How Might We…
-Create winning customer engagement

Find Jennie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennielew/
Check out Airship: https://www.airship.com/

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Find out more about Liftoff: Here.

Until next time, friends...stay curious.

Our guest this week is Mike Molnar, Managing Partner of the digital and social agency GLOW. He draws on 20 years of experience leading award-winning digital creative efforts across display media, site development, trans-media experiences, games, and social and mobile content—working across teams to develop large scale high-profile campaigns, custom content and digital experiences that generate measurable results and drive value for partners.

On this episode we go to town on topics like:

-People want Innovation but don’t want to commit to innovation.

-Value in innovation beyond just the execution. 

-Explosive opportunities in AR Marketing

-Converging the disconnect between CMOs and Technologists.

-As important as it is to be connected, it’s equally important to disconnect

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Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimolnar/
Check out GLOW: https://weareglow.com/
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Until next time, friends...stay curious.

Ariel Michaeli is the founder and CEO of appFigures. appFigures is the app analytics, optimization, and intelligence choice for top developers, publishers, marketers, and analysts.

On this week’s episode we discuss:
-How Analytics Are More Powerful Than Ever
-Parlor
-Quibi
-Growth and Growth Hacking

Discover appFigures: https://appfigures.com/

Ariel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielmichaeli/

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Find out more about Liftoff: Here.

Until next time, friends...stay curious.

We're happy to be joined by Brandon Maenius on Liftoff this week. He is the Director of Digital Health and Marketing at Baylor Scott & White Health.

Which begged the questions:
What is digital health?
How might we use digital solutions to help healthcare?
...and many other thought provoking questions you'll love to dig in to.

Follow Brandon: Here.

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On this episode, we’re joined by Chris Maddern, the co-founder and chief innovation officer at Button. Before Button, he was the Head of Mobile at Venmo, and Co-Founder of AppLaunch.

We dive into themes around:
-Advertising is not the future
-Building better commerce
-Without problems, there is no curiosity
-Creating a grab bag of awesome people

Find out more about Button: usebutton.com
Connect with Chris on Twitter: @chrismaddern

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Today’s guest is Afshin Mehin, the Founder Woke. Wokr supports companies developing new technologies by helping them to express the potential of their work in the most beautiful, meaningful ways possible. Some of their clients include:  Neuralink, Amazon, Lulullemon, and Postmates, to name a few.

We do some mind bending this episode as we dig into some themes like:

Are designers fortune tellers?

What is thought interface, and how might we design for it?

How does curiosity win the future?

Find out more about Afshin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afshin-mehin/

Find out more about Woke here: https://woke.co/

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Business Strategy is more than a buzz-phrase. It’s paramount to getting to where you need to be.

But...

What is business strategy?
How do you build trust?
What is radical transparency?
Why is empathy so important?
Are Business Strategists… sherpas?

This week, Tony plays the audience and interviews (co-host) Peter Klayman and fellow Rocketeer, Peter Bandy—as he seeks to get these questions answered.

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Summer Collins is the Associate Vice President of Design and Innovation at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

In this episode we’ll tap into questions like:

How does health and wellbeing contribute to the way we think about design?

How do you design for an array of communities?

How failure is an intrinsic and inevitable part of the innovation process?

What does it mean to be curious?

Connect with Summer Collins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCtheAlchemist

Check out the c1 Innovation Lab: http://c1innovationlab.com/
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