Despite being a $12 TRILLION industry, among the many “rugged” industries, Construction is notorious for its slow pace of digitization. In episode 23, we focused on construction tech and who’s making it suck less. Our guest was Drew DeWalt, one of the founders of Rhumbix (with Zachary Scheel) who spoke on how mobile is transforming construction. Both founders are Stanford Business alums. We...
If you’re launching new enterprise tech, early adopters and friends at startups may sign up right away but how do you get large company decision makers to adopt new tech and drive transformation at scale? In episode 22, Mike and I hosted Marc Wilkinson of HP Enterprise to explore this and tap into his experience driving transformation with the C-suite. Marc heads the HPE Mobility and Workplace...
Prijector is a smart hub that sits in meeting rooms and supports multiple video conferencing apps. In this episode, we dove into a broad range of topics around meetings including: - What Sunil noticed traveling to 10–12 countries every month and how that shaped the design of Prijector - Crazy stats e.g. it still takes 16 minutes to start a meeting and get going - Real meeting room problems:...
Alan (XSeed Capital, Listo Financial, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs) shares insights on patterns changing the Enterprise, drivers shaping enterprise UX and how entrepreneurs can get the right “framing” to rally customers around a new product. In this podcast episode, we also did a deep dive into: - Do investors care about UX? What does it take for investors to care? - The cycle that...
In episode 18, Mike and I speak with Vibhu Mittal, CEO of Edmodo in a wide ranging chat about education and technology. Vibhu is a former CMU professor, Google scientist and edtech entrepreneur, now leading the charge at the world's largest education platform. We spoke about: - edtech market playbooks and similarities to the iPhone enterprise model - Edmodo versus traditional Learning...
In this episode of our podcast series, we speak with Alok Batra, CEO of Atomiton, an IoT platform aimed at helping companies harmonize connections to internet connected devices. Atomiton has a Thing Query Language (TQL) that makes it easy for developers to build IoT apps.
Are you drowning in enterprise buzzwords? Do you roll your eyes when you hear any of these: IoT, API, VR, Big Data, Bots, AI. We do too! In this fun episode, we chat about buzzwords versus protocols, the 10–15 year cycle it takes for buzzwords to be operationalized (e.g. APIs), how use cases make it easier for customers to make sense of buzzwords, real big data versus empty words in pitch...
We recorded Podcast 12 in sunny Palo Alto with Jonas Lamis, founder of Sensai. Sensai has the potential to scale to millions of Business Analysts through AI and open source tech and how its friendly query language helps reimagine how we can deal with unstructured data in Financial Services, Marketing, and other areas. Jonas speaks on model building and the brain, how knowledge work automation...
