Creator Episodes

Dec. 19, 2023

#35 Chasing the light, creating authentic content & power of serendipity ft. Danny Miranda (Podcaster & Creator)

Sponsor for this episode: Recast, the AI-powered marketing assistant to create podcast highlight videos, show notes, newsletters, and social posts. Try - https://recast.studio/ ----------- All of us like to meet interesting …
Oct. 4, 2023

#32 Product thinking, creative resistance, & evaluating growth ft. Shreyas Doshi, Product Advisor (Ex- Stripe, Google, Yahoo, Twitter)

Being a founder or product person calls for enjoying the ride even when things are uncertain. While grit and passion are the regulars, it takes a few more skills like competence, agency, clarity of thought, to be able to nav…
Aug. 17, 2023

#30 Liminal goals, myths about 5-year career plans, power of community ft. Anne-Laure

Sponsor: Build in Public Fellowship by Karthik Puvvada (KP) - Apply to the program - https://buildinpublicfellowship.com/ There’s so much joy in being able to think clearly—whether it’s cracking a tough decision, understandi…
July 18, 2023

#29 Chasing creative pursuits | Tech, fiction writing & filmmaking | AI ethics ft. Abigail Wen [Tech Lead, Author, Filmmaker]

There’s so much in parallel with tech and art—for instance, innovation starts with small steps, iteratively leading up to radical explorations. A lot of people today blend creative arts together with the principles grounded …
April 26, 2023

#25 Creative entrepreneurship, business humour, social media habits and momentum ft. Alexis Gay (Founder & Standup Comedian)

There’s been an infinite number of times I’ve spoken to people about how a career in comedy and building products are similar: a journey that involves so much iteration, craft, and attention to detail. And dealing with audie…
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya Ashok
April 2, 2023

Portfolio careers, human Venn diagrams, diversifying interests ft. Christina Wallace (Harvard Univ)

Innovation is what most of us immediately point to when it comes to product success—but how often have we innovated our own thinking? Have we ever discovered what it means to be at the intersection of interests, ideas, and i…
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya Ashok
March 19, 2023

Cognitive science, AI algorithms, augmenting founder creativity ft. Alice Albrecht, AI Researcher & Founder

What’s the best way to unlock creativity? Does our mind have the power to process so many thoughts and references? How does AI help in creating, building, and sharing ideas as founders and creators? Some of these questions a…
Feb. 5, 2023

Building in public, portfolio career, shipping creative projects ft. Karthik Puvvada, Build in Public Studio

If you’ve been sharing stuff and reading through Twitter or LinkedIn, there’s so much buzz around building in public. Especially over the last couple of years, a lot of founders, solopreneurs and enthusiasts who worked on si…
Dec. 9, 2022

Launching 0-1 products, founders and fundraising, thinking in first principles ft. Aarthi Ramamurthy, Product Advisor | Founder | Host @ Good Time Show

Becoming a first-time founder is definitely fun, challenging, and more than anything a roller-coaster ride. Whether it’s transitioning from being an operator or scaling up a side project to something big, the energy and focu…
Aug. 13, 2022

Product management skills, personal productivity & founder career ft. Shyvee Shi, LinkedIn

Building and shipping impactful products is definitely the enjoyable part of a product manager’s journey. It’s fun to think about what problems to work on, putting on the founder’s mindset from time to time or working with f…
Aug. 6, 2022

Future of builders, founder skills, startup journey ft. Sonia & Blake, Kernal

In today’s Foyer Feature, let’s welcome Sonia and Blake from Kernal, the community platform to connect founders, investors and startup ideas. 15,000+ members, 1,500+ startup ideas, they are doing an amazing work in helping c…
July 22, 2022

Creator, content economy, and building your voice ft. Grace Gong, Smart Venture Podcast

How to stay consistent with the inputs especially when your interests are versatile? I loved chatting with Grace Gong on this topic, especially because she's been doing some amazing work with her podcast, sharing knowledge a…
July 5, 2022

Building community & connections from ground-up ft. Nazuk Jain, Apple & Product Career

So you’ve got a great idea and you’ve been building out your initial version of the product. With a little bit of socializing around, you see that people are starting to gain interest in what you’re building—what next? Obvio…
June 8, 2022

Self-care for founders and builders ft. Amy Young, Redefine Possibility

When was the last time you thought of working on a new project? Choosing between ideas and actually getting to work on it are two different jobs for the ones who build stuff. Often we are left confused, exhausted, and unclea…