Today, we take a trip to Rotterdam, a large metropolitan city in the Netherlands that has taken steps in recent years to put itself at the forefront of the future of mobility. In this episode, we'll cover what these advancements mean for reducing carbon emissions, and what it may look like as mobility tech spreads across the world. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Ampla: Go to getampla.com to fill out your five minute a...
Mar 16, 2023•24 min•Season 16Ep. 43
No matter who you are, what you do, or what precautions you take, life never goes as expected. Setbacks are guaranteed and, when they happen, getting back into the game isn't easy. In The Art of Bouncing Back , therapist and mental skills coach Darleen Santore teaches readers how to tackle the toughest challenges, bounce back with resiliency, and thrive through adversity. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Ampla: Go to ge...
Mar 09, 2023•31 min•Season 16Ep. 42
Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo! senior vice president, wrote an internal memo urging Yahoo! company, famously known as The “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” pointed out Yahoo’s lack of focused, a cohesive vision, using peanut butter as a metaphor for spreading its resources too thinly. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Ampla: Go to getampla.com to fill out your five minute application today. Gigantic: Learn more about Gigantic's Prod...
Mar 02, 2023•18 min•Season 16Ep. 41
This week, we're back with yet another update on AI chat bots, as the New York Times' Kevin Roose had a pretty bizarre exchange with Bing's chat bot, powered by OpenAI. So to get to the bottom of things, we brought ChatGPT's Assistant back onto the show. Plus, we'll dive into how Bing ended up in partnership with OpenAI and what the future of chat bots may look like. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get t...
Feb 23, 2023•35 min•Season 16Ep. 40
A lot has changed since our season on Web3. We've seen blue chip projects fade and valuations for NFT projects cascade. Today we'll look at why NFT values have dropped, look at specific projects we covered during the Web3 season, and think about the future of NFT's. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocketship Produx Labs: New studen...
Feb 16, 2023•34 min•Season 16Ep. 39
Today, we’re going to hear from ex-NFL, now keynote speaker and culture leader Matt Mayberry as he delivers us some lessons from the locker room. Matt talks about the similarities between product leaders and football coaches, and how to get everybody on board with the team's mission. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocketship Produ...
Feb 09, 2023•25 min•Season 16Ep. 38
This week, we're diving into the FAA glitch that caused all flights in the U.S. to be grounded. We'll breakdown exactly what happened, the importance of tech systems being kept up to date, and what we can learn from this fiasco as product people. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocketship Produx Labs: New students can use the code ...
Feb 02, 2023•30 min•Season 16Ep. 37
ChatGPT has the world buzzing, with everyone both excited and terrified for the future. But now there's a new entrant into the AI sphere, GPTZero, an app built in a couple of weeks that can already detect when an AI-Model writes a piece of content. With the field quickly evolving, one thing is certain: AI is not going away. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go...
Jan 26, 2023•25 min•Season 16Ep. 36
Last week, reviewed our predictions from 2022 and how they faired. This week, we're going to look forward to 2023 and make predictions about the next year in tech. Will layoffs in the tech industry continue? And how will Bitcoin do in 2023? All that on more on this week's Rocketship.fm. This podcast is brought to you by: Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocketship Pr...
Jan 19, 2023•32 min•Season 16Ep. 35
Happy New Year! We look back at our 2022 predictions and measure how we did against the reality that 2022 brought. We'll dig into how 2022 faired for Web3, NFTs, quantum computing, SPACs, IPOs, and more in this special new years episode of Rocketship.fm. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To g...
Jan 12, 2023•26 min•Season 16Ep. 34
Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives―with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now. Today we chat with the authors' Bill Carr & Colin Bryar about their time working directly with Jeff Bezos on some of Amazon's biggest product innovations. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zap...
Jan 05, 2023•27 min•Season 13Ep. 33
Today, we’re going to bring you an episode on the incredible product journey of Madden Football - in part, to honor the recent passing of American football legendary coach, broadcaster, and, in a way, product person - today, in this special bonus episode of Rocketship.FM. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now...
Dec 29, 2022•24 min•Season 13Ep. 32
TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are some of the most popular social media platforms today, with millions of users around the world. Despite their different approaches to social media, these platforms have one thing in common: they are constantly copying each other's features. From Instagram's adoption of Tiktoks video format to Tiktoks inclusion of Instagram’s social features, these platforms are always looking to stay ahead of the game by copying their competitors. In this article, we explore t...
Dec 22, 2022•32 min•Season 13Ep. 31
Chat GPT is a new language processing technology that's set to revolutionize the way we interact with computers and machines. It's the latest development in the field of artificial intelligence, and it's got a lot of people talking. It’s a product of OpenAI and was opened up in a public beta on November 30th – and it’s already surpassed 1 million users. Today we interview ChatGPT itself in what is a first for us here on Rocketship.fm - our first interview with an AI. This podcast is brought to y...
Dec 15, 2022•31 min•Season 13Ep. 30
Ticketing. Where just these past couple of weeks, we’ve heard about major stories like the Taylor Swift on-sale fiasco and major issues at the at the biggest sporting event in the world. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses...
Dec 08, 2022•34 min•Season 13Ep. 29
We’re going to explore the history of black friday and try to figure out why Cyber Week is quickly turning into Cyber Month. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocketship Produx Labs: New students can use the code ROC...
Dec 01, 2022•23 min•Season 13Ep. 28
Sam Bankman-Fried met with 100-some investment firms successfully raising $2 billion in venture capital funding, but he didn’t do it alone. Today we explore the continuing saga of the FTX collapse and learn more about Ramnik Arora, the fixer behind the scenes. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray...
Nov 24, 2022•25 min•Season 13Ep. 27
Fantasy sports has become a big business, and today, we're diving into the industry's origins, its implications on big tech, and the criticism it's faced as a potential form of gambling. To get the full scoop, we also hear from Eric Balkman, who runs the Fantasy Football Players Championship, and Matt Kalish, who co-founded DraftKings. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify:...
Nov 17, 2022•35 min•Season 13Ep. 26
The tech layoffs continue as Stripe slashed 1,000 jobs, or 14% of its workforce, and Lyft and Affirm joined the fray. Twitter recently made big cuts as Elon Musk cut the Twitter workforce in half, and now Meta is getting ready to announce significant cuts later this week. Leaders dramatically overestimated tech’s pandemic-fueled boom. Or, they thought they had more to do with the boom than they actually did. Even as Covid-19 shut down much of the economy, the digital realm continued to thrive as...
Nov 10, 2022•41 min•Season 13Ep. 25
Artificial Intelligence is moving incredibly fast and is going to touch every part of the product world sooner or later. Today we'll look into some of these ways, including how AI is trained to create art, how AI is able to create music without human help, and a future where AI can create believable recreations of peoples' voices. Then we hear from David Cancel, who Mike talked to at Industry, about customers' changing expectations, what product people should aim to learn from spending time with...
Nov 03, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 24
In our final installment of Product Therapy, Christian talks to Amnon, who is coming into a product leadership position where he is tasked with changing the entire mindset for how product is approached. He asks Christian about how to change the mindset of people outside of the product team, how to know if his voice is suitable for the role of evangelizing, and Christian gives advice on how to build a strong relationship with organizational leadership. This podcast is brought to you by: Acceleven...
Oct 27, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 23
In today's Product Therapy episode, Christian talks to Rotam about being a first time product leader, how to interview potential team members, and how to manage a remote team. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Felix Gray: To get the best blue light glasses on the market, go to Felixgrayglasses.com/Rocket...
Oct 25, 2022•32 min•Season 13Ep. 22
Today, we're starting a new mini-series with Christian Idiodi called Product Therapy. In these episodes, we'll listen into conversations with Christian as he coaches clients on their product journeys. On this episode, Christian talks to Adir, a first-time VP of product, about managing his team, communicating with his boss, and how to delegate and advocating for his team. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free tod...
Oct 20, 2022•35 min•Season 13Ep. 21
Elon Musk has reversed course and is now looking to buy Twitter again, at his original price. He also drops hints about what he’s looking to do with his re-acquired domain, X.com, making it the all-in-one app to do everything for everyone. There’s also trouble in the Metaverse as Zuckerburg struggles to find a vision and Coinbase produces its own documentary, Coin. So dust off your Amazon Prime video account to watch this hour and a half infomercial on Brian Armstrong and the Coinbase team as th...
Oct 13, 2022•32 min•Season 13Ep. 20
Inside the wild and tumultuous history of Toys R Us, the beloved children's brand once again attempting a comeback with in-store shops at Macy's just in time for the holidays. What was once one of the first “category killers,” has faced troubled times. Now, the beloved toy store is reopening its doors once more, this time from inside select Macy's department stores across the US. The in-store shops are currently operating in Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, Nevada, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, a...
Oct 06, 2022•26 min•Season 13Ep. 19
Today, we all know Samsung as a behemoth in the tech world. But the company actually started from humble beginnings, shapeshifting through wars and different governments to the conglomerate it is today. In this episode, we'll journey through all of Samsung's history. This podcast is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Rocketship now. Fel...
Sep 29, 2022•21 min•Season 13Ep. 18
In the early 2000's eBay was in direct competition with Amazon but they had very different methodologies when approaching the market. Today we dive into some of the mistakes eBay made in this time where they caught themselves focusing on the wrong metrics and ultimately the wrong side of the market. These mistakes ultimately led to the huge differences in the trajectory of where these companies are today. We talk with Ben Foster, the CPO at GoCanvas, about his time at eBay from 2001-2005 where h...
Sep 22, 2022•20 min•Season 13Ep. 17
When it was launched in 2005, according to co-founder Steve Chen, Youtube was designed as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams. Co-founder Jawed Karim also talked about YouTube’s romantic origins. “We even had a slogan for it: Tune in, Hook up.” Despite offering to pay women $20 to upload videos of themselves to YouTube, nobody came forward, forcing Chen, Karim and co-founder Chad Hurley to adopt a different strategy. Today we explore the epic...
Sep 15, 2022•32 min•Season 13Ep. 16
Since its founding in 2005, YCombinator has helped startups like Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, and many others find success. Today, we'll trace the accelerator's history from its humble beginnings in Cambridge, Massachusetts all the way to where they are currently under new leader Garry Tan. *** This episode is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shop...
Sep 08, 2022•38 min•Season 13Ep. 15
By the summer of 2018, MoviePass seemed like the best deal around, but it turned out the company's model of unlimited movies for $9.99 a month was too good to be true. Now, MoviePass is back under original management, and we're here to break down the company's history and future. *** This episode is brought to you by: Accelevents: Sign up for a free trial of Accelevents today. Zapier: Try Zapier for free today at zapier.com/Rocketship Shopify: Start selling on Shopify today. Go to Shopify.com/Ro...
Sep 01, 2022•30 min•Season 13Ep. 14
