T-Rex Radio

Running a company is complicated. Everyone has different priorities and conceptions of success. Left to their own devices, people default to a sort of mob rule where only the strongest personalities get their way, and often work in opposition. Things get murky, inefficient, and ultimately, deadly for the business.

So how do we keep alignment?

Here at Turntide, we rely on a system called “OKRs,” which stands for “Objective / Key Result.” Simply put, an objective is a goal for the business, and a key result is a measurable amount of progress toward that goal.

It’s a simple concept, right? No way it could go wrong.

I invited some experts onto the show to share the finer points of OKRs, about where they fail, and what makes a good one. Perhaps, in order to understand what they are, we should take a look at they came from.

We've all had terrible managers. Hopefully, most of us have had some great ones, too.

On this T-Rex Radio, we'll ask people about the qualities that motivated their best managers, and the faults that made their worst managers turn their jobs intolerable.

Guests include Mike Evans, founder of Grubhub and Fixer.

T-Rex Radio is a production of Turntide Technologies.

The story of every successful startup includes critical turning points that require challenging adaptations to win their markets. Turntide faced that moment in 2022 when it became clear that taking the company to the next level would require a wholesale transformation, from an organization that chases sales to one that develops products that fit customers' most important needs. This episode of T-Rex Radio is a very candid story of how Turntide implemented Marty Cagan's "Empowered" model, and arrived to 2023 a very different company from the year before.

Values listed on a poster on the wall are one thing. Actually working by them every day is quite another. In this episode, host and Chief People Officer Senia Maymin speaks with three of our engineers about Turntide’s values. From the surprise they felt when discovering how seriously we take them, to learning what they mean and look like, to finding value and growth in incorporating them into their work and lives, they share their experiences in using the values to be better engineers.

A brief introduction to servant leadership at Turntide as we kick off a series of episodes on the topic.

In this episode, Paul, Yvonne, and Ryan go deep on the how, what, and why of Turntide‘s value of open communication.

Turntide Chief People Officer Senia Maymin has learned a lot from her education, research, and coaching practice. In this episode, she shares some practical frameworks for changing behaviors, exploring new ideas, and making changes (as well as reading, writing a book, and many other topics).

While kids may be heading back to school and parents back to offices, we wanted to document the trials and successes of pandemic parenting while WFH. As a largely remote workforce, we definitely learned some things that we can take forward as we all go back into the world.

What we learned? It’s different for every family. Some kids thrive. Some struggle. Some parents can share the duties of home schooling. Some can’t. One thing we all loved? Zoom bombs from kids!

Paul gets together with Mike and Marti to discuss the integration of Riptide into Turntide, from introductions and culture match, to product offerings and customer value, to what the future holds.

An expert at digital business model transformations in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and transportation, extensive experience with IoT connectivity and advanced analytics technologies, and a track record of hyperscaling teams, Brad shares the possibilities Turntide's technology brings as well as practical use cases.