Ben Blumenfeld is the co-director of Designer Fund, where he helps designers build businesses with meaningful impact. Before Designer Fund, Ben was the 5th designer at Facebook. In this preview he delves into whether he thinks the fund is an experiment and whether they would've invested in Zuck in 2004.

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PREVIEW #21: Would Designer Fund have invested in Mark Zuckerberg in 2004? Ben Blumenfeld also shares whether the fund is an experiment

Bringing clarity to how the best companies approach, communicate, and deploy design. We’ve hand-picked the design industry’s 25 greatest influencers and change-makers to bring you 1000min of deep-dive conversation. Hosted by Bobby Ghoshal and Jared Erondu.

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Our co-host, Bobby, was an opening speaker at AIGA Conference 2017. Bobby breaks down why the design industry has lost touch with customers and how specialized roles in design continue to fuel the problem. He also offers a mindset change to help your business in a BIG way this year. Join us.

AIGA is the profession's oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.

Bobby Ghoshal is the co-host of High Resolution and co-founder of Candid Co.

A Talk at AIGA: Designers, make this ONE mindset change in 2018 to drive massive business value

This bonus episode will officially bring season one of High Resolution to a close. We received a flurry of emails and questions from the community over the past six or so months, we curated twelve questions for this final episode and managed to stay somewhat coherent for an hour.  If you still have pressing questions, tweet us and we will do our best to answer them. Enjoy and godspeed!

BONUS EPISODE: How we made High Resolution + other community questions

Bobby Ghoshal (co-founder of Candid Co.) and Jared Erondu (Design at Lattice) are the co-hosts of High Resolution.

In this episode, they turn the cameras—and the questions—on themselves to ask each other 10 questions. From how they both got started as designers, to the lessons that have had the most profound impact on their careers. They give it everything they've got.



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FINALE! #25: This final episode gets fiery with Bobby and Jared as they down 3 Japanese whiskies and go beyond design

In this preview, we drew up 10 questions for each other and things got fiery! Bobby explains the 3 P's you should look for in any job and Jared shares what ticks him off about the design industry. This is the season finale, tune in for the full episode this coming Monday, July 31st! Thank you for tuning in every week, we loved having you.

PREVIEW FINALE #25: The 3 P's you should look for in any job + what sucks about the design industry

Cap Watkins is the VP of Design at Buzzfeed.

In this episode, he explains how to apply design to any business challenge, what managers can do to create a more productive environment, and how companies can create a culture that empowers their best people.



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InVision – InVision is the world's leading product design platform, powering the future of digital product design through our deep understanding of the dynamics of collaboration. Teams that build digital products are at a serious advantage when they use InVision's suite of prototyping tools. They're a great way of getting everyone on board.

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Searle Video – Searle Video is a creative studio based out of Portland, Oregon. They've helped the creative community tell stories for over 10 years. They've done advertisements, behind the scenes stories, and documentaries for companies like Slack, Intel, Adobe, Google and the XOXO festival.
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PREVIEW #21: Would Designer Fund have invested in Mark Zuckerberg in 2004? Ben Blumenfeld also shares whether the fund is an experiment

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