The All Turtles Podcast

By All Turtles

What's The All Turtles Podcast about?

Exploring the provocative ways startup founders, product creators, and AI experts are solving real problems today. The cofounders of All Turtles, a global AI product company, and their guests share insights and advice about entrepreneurship and the AI industry.

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The All Turtles Podcast episodes:

11.20.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #6 - The Work Ahead
So where do we go from here? How do we build a more inclusive future in tech? A good place to start is by listening to those who have worked to improve equity in Silicon Valley for years. "Culture Fit:...
11.18.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #5 - Internal Investigation
We’re turning the mirror on ourselves to assess diversity, equity, and inclusion at All Turtles. If we believe every company could benefit from open conversations about diversity issues, we need to start with ourselves. "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech"...
11.18.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #4 - Built-in Bias
Racial bias has not only worked its way into tech workplaces, it’s also in the products we build. How can we mitigate the harm that these biases cause in the products Silicon Valley puts out into the world? "Culture Fit:...
11.17.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #3 - The Pipeline Fallacy
A common excuse tech companies make for their lack of diversity is to blame the “pipeline,” saying there aren’t enough qualified candidates from historically excluded groups in the talent pool. Why do tech companies lean on this argument, and what...
11.16.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #2 - Original Gatekeepers
It’s time to hop into the way, way back machine. We’re examining the history of Silicon Valley to better understand how we got to the current moment of racial inequity in tech. "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is...
11.16.2020
Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #1 - Monoculture
Introducing "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech," a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking an in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry. In episode 1, people from communities that have long been excluded by Silicon Valley’s monoculture...
09.30.2020
When AI is misaligned
Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By. His latest book is called The Alignment Problem. He’s here today to talk about everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and...
09.23.2020
The future of the reading brain
How is digital media impacting our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection? This is an important question to consider, especially as we become increasingly dependent on technology. Our digital dependence has been amplified during the pandemic, as we rely...
09.16.2020
Privacy and community
Products aren’t neutral—that’s our ethos at All Turtles. Products are built with a point of view that impacts the community of users and plays a role in the development of privacy guidelines. In this episode, All Turtles’ three cofounders (Phil...
09.09.2020
Fundraising during a pandemic
For startups, securing funding can be a long and bumpy road, and in many ways the pandemic has made it even bumpier. Tellus (an All Turtles product) has still found success in recent months, and today their CEO Tania A....
09.02.2020
Designing mmhmm
Mmhmm, our newest All Turtles product, upgrades video calls with beautiful backdrops and rooms, the designs for which had to be put together in record time. Allie Packard, our fearless Senior Designer, is here to share how she and her...
08.26.2020
Introducing mmhmm
Mmhmm is our latest All Turtles product, which we built to make video calls more efficient—and more fun. After our podcast’s summer hiatus, we’re eager to share how we spun out this product at breakneck speed during the pandemic. Mmhmm’s...
05.27.2020
Conversational AI with Noelle Silver
When you ask Amazon’s Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible because of the work of people like Noelle Silver. She wrote some of Alexa’s earliest skills, and as her career took her from Amazon to Microsoft,...
05.20.2020
Figma and the future of collaborative design
Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our...
05.13.2020
The future of remote learning
With campuses closed and classes relegated to Zoom sessions, COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need. On today’s episode,...
05.06.2020
How a social distancing app came to be
What do you do when a global pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup? If you’re Sebastian Müller, cofounder of Lanterne, you quickly pivot to create a product to help people stay safe as coronavirus spreads. That’s...
04.29.2020
Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta
Where did the conspiracy that “Bill Gates engineered coronavirus” come from? This is the type of query that Renée DiResta investigates as the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, where she tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online....
04.22.2020
AI and the future of work
And now for an episode that was recorded pre-COVID-19. Today, David Yakobovitch is joining the show to share his perspectives on AI and the future of work. David hosts the HumAIn Podcast, a show about artificial intelligence, data science, and...
04.15.2020
Executive decision-making in a global crisis
George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift, an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George has led his company through the first phase of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved creating a program to...
04.08.2020
COVID-19 and the Great Unpause
Over the past couple weeks on the podcast, we’ve talked about COVID-19’s impact on the future of work and the future of health. Today, we’re delving a little deeper into how we can come back from the economic impact of...
04.01.2020
COVID-19 and the future of health
The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the way we think about and manage health. We’d already suspected that the future of work and the future of health were intrinsically linked, but this pandemic has shown how the trajectory of one...
03.25.2020
COVID-19 and the future of work
COVID-19 has thrown so much into uncertainty, including the way we work. With shelter-in-place regulations falling over increasing swathes of the population, companies who have the capacity to instruct employees to work from home have done so. Due to the...
03.18.2020
The future of healthcare data
A single patient’s healthcare data is likely stored in different silos. It can therefore be difficult to assemble a complete picture of health when old records, more recent information, and regularly updated stats from a smartwatch should all be taken...
03.04.2020
AI or human?
Have you ever had an online conversation with someone only to realize later that you’d been talking to a bot? Computers are reshaping our idea of what it means to be human. Today on the podcast, author Brian Christian explores...
02.19.2020
Carrot's Baby Steps
On prior episodes of this podcast, we’ve discussed Carrot, a company that’s pioneering the future of work and health by providing global fertility benefits to employers. Because there’s so much to discuss, we made a whole new podcast for Carrot...
02.05.2020
AI and the future of human computation
How is the internet making people more or less seen? Researcher Mary Gray’s new book Ghost Work explores the lives of people who are paid to train AI. These workers are contributing to the AI we use every day, but...
01.22.2020
Designing the future of health
Designers and medical professionals are both key to building the future of health. Dr. Kyra Bobinet is working within that intersection by using neuroscience to help people design healthy lives. She’s an MD and the CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience-based...
01.08.2020
Design thinking and the future of work
Sita Magnuson has the spirit of an entrepreneur and the heart of an artist. She’s been able to make a career for herself by channeling both of these strengths into cofounding initiatives like Fort Future, Dpict, and Easthampton Co.Lab. Today...
12.18.2019
23andMe and the future of genomic technology
What does it mean to democratize DNA? Shirley Wu is answering that question as the Director of Health Product at 23andMe. 23andMe’s mission is to pioneer the future of health with their genetic testing technology, and to help people understand,...
12.04.2019
The future of fertility benefits
In many ways, the future of fertility is closely tied to the future of work, as companies determine how to best ensure that their employees are holistically supported. Employers have a unique and important role to play when it comes...
11.20.2019
Sift: Climate change and mental health
Sift is a news therapy app that unpacks contentious topics so you can feel better equipped to keep up with the headlines. Today on the podcast, we’re giving you an audio taste of one of Sift’s topics—climate change—so you can...
10.30.2019
Building best practices for AI systems with Terah Lyons
Terah Lyons is the Executive Director of the Partnership on AI, a consortium that aims to establish best practices for AI systems and to educate the public about AI. They’re working to explore AI’s impact on the world, including on...
10.16.2019
Announcements, announcements
We interrupt our normal programming for some brief announcements on upcoming changes to the podcast. We’re transitioning from weekly episodes to bi-weekly in order to accommodate some exciting new projects. But stay subscribed, and stay tuned, because we have some...
10.09.2019
The future of workplace harassment training
Spot is an All Turtles product that’s ushering in the future of work by using technology to build better environments for employees. It’s a software solution for tackling harassment and discrimination in the workplace with an AI reporting tool. We’ve...
10.02.2019
The future of cancer research with Dr. Arun Wiita
Dr. Arun Wiita’s lab at UCSF uses emerging technologies to discover new treatments for blood cancers. Today on the podcast, he shares his insights on the future of cancer research, including why he thinks the next big advancement will involve...
09.25.2019
Tech solutions to intractable problems with Unreasonable Group
Unreasonable Group works with entrepreneurs who are offering solutions to seemingly intractable challenges. Today on the podcast, their Head of Creative Partnerships, Dave Smith, is talking about how they approach some of the world’s biggest problems. Their cohort of founders...
09.18.2019
Why the future of work is remote work
As tools like Figma, Slack, and more are allowing employees to stay connected from disparate locations, the concept of the remote workforce has become increasingly attractive. With the benefits of added flexibility for employees and opportunities to hire people from...
09.11.2019
AI in medicine with Dr. Eric Topol
AI has already made its way into in the medical field, and today, Dr. Eric Topol gives us a sense of the many ways in which medical professionals are already taking advantage of this technology. Dr. Topol is a cardiologist...
09.04.2019
UX design with Dairien Boyd
For some, tongue twisters are simply amusing ways to pass the time, but Dairien Boyd and other designers at All Turtles knew that these verses had value: they could help people practicing a new language perfect their pronunciation, or give...
08.28.2019
Quantitative futurist Amy Webb
We may never get to use a crystal ball to tell us where the world is headed, but Amy Webb’s futurist analysis might be the next best thing. She’s a quantitative futurist, founder of the Future Today Institute, and author...
08.21.2019
Season 3 Kickoff
Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming. After our summer SciFi-preneuership series, we’re ready to launch season 3 of the All Turtles Podcast. Today we’re introducing the new season and its themes: the future of work and the future of...
08.14.2019
SciFi-preneurship 9: Dune
Dune, a novel set 20,000 years in the future, is a sweeping saga that touches on themes ranging from the consequences of AI (and the lack of AI) to the values of environmentalism. This is the last episode of SciFi-preneurship,...
08.07.2019
SciFi-preneurship 8: Star Trek
Star Trek is one of the most iconic shows to ever grace television, not just for its contributions to the genre of science fiction, but also for its inspirational message about the potential for technology to build a positive future....
07.31.2019
SciFi-preneurship 7: Le Guin part 2
Ursula K. Le Guin’s influence on science fiction is so significant that we dedicated two episodes of this series to her work, as we had so many guests who wanted to talk about her impact. Le Guin’s writing helped expand...
07.24.2019
SciFi-preneurship 6: Le Guin part 1
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction’s most influential writers. Her science fiction philosophy, which underscores our entire SciFi-preneurship podcast series, is that science fiction is meant to be descriptive rather than predictive. A hallmark of her writing...
07.17.2019
SciFi-preneurship 5: I, Robot
As technologists continue to build the future, what laws should govern the things they create? Ethical guidelines for technology are essential; Isaac Asmiov presented one version of what they may look like when he introduced the Three Laws of Robotics...
07.10.2019
SciFi-preneurship 4: Snow Crash
In the Metaverse, a shared virtual reality space, a character wrestles with a computer-crashing virus that also causes harm in the real world. Thus begins Snow Crash, a Neal Stephenson novel that, when written in 1992, described futuristic systems that...
06.26.2019
SciFi-preneurship 3: 1984
In 2019, we’re 35 years beyond 1984; at this current juncture, we can see just how predictive George Orwell’s novel turned out to be, and which dystopian elements we’ve managed to avoid (so far). This seminal work of science fiction...
06.19.2019
SciFi-preneurship 2: The Matrix
The impact of the The Matrix on science fiction is difficult to overstate, but beyond the genre itself, it also deeply affected the viewers whose worldviews were made askew. Three of those viewers are featured in today’s episode to talk...
06.12.2019
SciFi-preneurship 1: Lovecraft
SciFi-preneurship is a new summer series from the All Turtles Podcast that examines how science fiction inspires people to create things that impact our lives today. In SciFi-preneurship, we’re using an expanded definition of entrepreneurship: we don’t just mean Silicon...

What's The All Turtles Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The All Turtles Podcast episodes:

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #6 - The Work Ahead

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #5 - Internal Investigation

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #4 - Built-in Bias

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #3 - The Pipeline Fallacy

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #2 - Original Gatekeepers

Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech #1 - Monoculture

When AI is misaligned

The future of the reading brain

Privacy and community

Fundraising during a pandemic

Designing mmhmm

Introducing mmhmm

Conversational AI with Noelle Silver

Figma and the future of collaborative design

The future of remote learning

How a social distancing app came to be

Coronavirus misinformation with Renée DiResta

AI and the future of work

Executive decision-making in a global crisis

COVID-19 and the Great Unpause

COVID-19 and the future of health

COVID-19 and the future of work

The future of healthcare data

AI or human?

Carrot's Baby Steps

AI and the future of human computation

Designing the future of health

Design thinking and the future of work

23andMe and the future of genomic technology

The future of fertility benefits

Sift: Climate change and mental health

Building best practices for AI systems with Terah Lyons

Announcements, announcements

The future of workplace harassment training

The future of cancer research with Dr. Arun Wiita

Tech solutions to intractable problems with Unreasonable Group

Why the future of work is remote work

AI in medicine with Dr. Eric Topol

UX design with Dairien Boyd

Quantitative futurist Amy Webb

Season 3 Kickoff

SciFi-preneurship 9: Dune

SciFi-preneurship 8: Star Trek

SciFi-preneurship 7: Le Guin part 2

SciFi-preneurship 6: Le Guin part 1

SciFi-preneurship 5: I, Robot

SciFi-preneurship 4: Snow Crash

SciFi-preneurship 3: 1984

SciFi-preneurship 2: The Matrix

SciFi-preneurship 1: Lovecraft