Only Way To Fail

S0E1 - Here’s a Spoonful of Sugar (and how not to be a Unicorn)


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Where the company is today (Infoplus Story of Right Now), Pandemic checkin - how have we all adjusted with our teams and the company to the new world since we have all been WFH since March, follow-ups, headlines, and a trip to the ER for sugar. 

Show Notes

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Random chatter on all the things

  • Biased reviews

  • Squeaky chairs and amateur microphone handling

    00:02:02 - Show Start

    3 nerds and a business guy

    00:02:29 - Follow-ups

    What the hell were all those words and acronyms we used last week?

  • MEPS

  • EOS

  • Traction (alternate link to amazon store)

  • 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership (alternate link to amazon store)

    00:16:42 - This Weeks Headlines

    Darin - LTM’s, IDS, and a guy named Joel

  • Garret - How to max out a corporate card from vacation

  • Tyler - Software engineering and automated testing (for the “nerds” in the audience)

  • James - What is a ZOG (Zone of Genius?) and 31 days of vacation coming to an end

    00:29:27 - Where Are We Right Now (The company as of today)

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    Excitement, Valley of Death, Wiggles of False Hope, Traction

  • Scaling via strategic fundamental change, not effort

  • 4 Engineers won’t carry us forever

  • “Single hats only” and respecting the “product sphere”

  • If James doesn’t want Infoplus to be a “startup unicorn” then why does Infoplus exist.

    00:45:39 - Pandemic checkin

    How have we all adjusted with our teams and the company to the new world since we have all been WFH since March

  • “Drinky Hour”

  • Engineers in Heaven

  • Infoplus Mom is losing weight

  • The good side of life slowing down

    00:59:00 - Q and A

    James left the questions blank

    00:59:34 - End of the Show (The Sing Out)

    “Smash that like button” is still hanging on

  • Darin sings us out with an encore that leaves you wondering how he was ever kicked out of choir

    01:02:23 - The After Show

    “Mr. Richardson... your oxygen levels could not be any higher.”

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    Only Way To FailBy Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, James Maes