Re:Design/Growth

Michaela is a mixed-method researcher and insights professional with a diverse background and more than 20 years of experience in market research, UX research, and multicultural research in many different industries.

She is the founder of Relevant Insights, a market research firm providing highly customized, action-oriented research solutions and advanced analytics.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Scott Christensen is the founder of Growth Designed, a product design consultancy that specializes in creating and refining PLG growth motions for startups.

He is also the co-founder of the GrowthDesigners.co Slack community (1500+ members), and leads an online educational course called Growth Design School.

He has 10+ years experience leading design teams at Expedia, PwC and startups backed by Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, and IVP.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Ben Peck is a product design professional with over a decade of experience working with software companies that have partnered with brands including Nike, The North Face, Oakley, Under Armour, and Sonos.

He is also the co-founder of the Front product design & management conference, and the director of the Product Hive community.

Ben's skillset is in designing software and products that significantly impact the UX needs of consumers. He values user motivational design-making, informed design rationale, and robust user-proven interaction models. He strives to deliver solutions that are intuitive, useful, well-designed, and technically efficient.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

John Dilworth is the VP of UX at Lucid Software, a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future. John is an experienced designer and leader. He works to build strong, effective design teams that solve tough problems and make the world a better place to work and live.

Previously, he has worked as the Senior Director of UX at Ancestry.com, and as an adjunct professor of UX at New York University.

John also co-created the Utah Flag Machine website, an online platform that ended up having an unexpected impact on the creation and selection of Utah's new state flag!

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Bentley Wilson is the co-founder and CEO of Cardagraph, a product delivery management tool for software companies. His background is in product development and engineering.

From an early career working in small engineering teams as a front-end developer to working as a project lead, Bentley has always prioritized a lean product management mindset and delivering value to end users.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli

In Episode 15 of Re:Design/Growth, 3 of Trymata's co-founders hopped on to chat about the highlights of the first few months of the podcast: what we've learned, memorable moments, new ideas – and our own thoughts & experiences on product, UX, and growth.

So far, our guests have offered a combined 208 years of experience in the product, UX, and research fields. We've gotten an incredibly valuable look into the lessons from those 2+ centuries of experience in just under 10 hours of live conversations.

We've heard differing takes on some hot topics of the day: AI and its place in digital products, "democratization" of UX, product-led growth, and more. We've seen the way that professionals with different roles and backgrounds conceptualize what "product" even means, and how it fits into a business organization. We've talked a lot about how you make the best decisions about what to build, and when, how, and why to build it.

Listen in on this discussion of the major takeaways and big questions from our first 15 episodes of Re:Design/Growth!

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Episode hosted by (and featuring) Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam, Shruti Goli, and Tim Rotolo

Shravan Goli is a results-driven executive with a background in product management & product marketing, and 20+ years of experience creating and scaling businesses.

Formerly CPO and currently COO of Coursera, Shravan has a long history of success growing digital businesses of all kinds – including B2C services & marketplaces, B2B SaaS products, subscription businesses, ecommerce, digital media, and more.

His past roles include Head of Products at Yahoo and CEO at Dictionary.com.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli

Wade Shearer is a product, technology, and user experience leader. He has a passion for building, mentoring, and inspiring high-impact, empowered teams that solve real problems, deliver clear business outcomes, and surprise with delight.

With a maxim that true innovation comes through informed and deliberate research, design, and validation, Wade works to elevate the voice of the customer and bring sales, marketing, customer success, and product together to drive up satisfaction and maximize revenue.

Wade is the co-founder of Front, an annual conference & workshop series for Product Managers, Designers, and Researchers. He also cofounded Product Hive, a volunteer-led community with over 8,000 members across 7 major US cities. You'll find him regularly speaking, teaching workshops, collaborating at community events, and volunteering as a mentor.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

John Felushko is a product manager that focuses on using empathy, logic, narrative, and data to create products that work for users and businesses. His specialties include product roadmap creation, market research, design management, product marketing, and more.

He is currently at LabStats, turning big data into actionable insights at scale for higher education.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Monty Ngan is an investor at Julian.capital, an early-stage startup fund specializing in the design-growth linkage and helping startups develop the right brand and customer acquisition strategy. He is also the founder of Catena, a platform that helps top overseas talent find roles at US-based startups.

While in high school, Monty created a digital platform called TalkED for preserving indigenous languages of the Philippines in partnership with the Philippines Department of Education. Monty led TalkED to win the Harvard Social Innovation Competition, and presented about the project at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Prior to Catena, his previous startup, Ascend Build, was a proptech startup that helped real estate developers in Canada optimize rental prices and worked with developers that owned over 20,000 units across Canada. In a previous life, he also spent time working at McKinsey.

Monty is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Economics and Business Analytics.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli