Social Good Podcast

Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the early days at Google and leading the Google Fiber and Search platform teams. She also discusses finding work-life balance and documenting stories of women in tech along with their successes and challenges in her book The Adventures of Women in Tech. Links: https://twitter.com/alanatkaren www.alanakaren.com www.adventuresofwomenintech.com Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welcoming the second cohort of the On Deck Catalyst program, learnings from the first cohort including hitting ceilings and growing from Build Weekend and catering to an ambitious and younger audience. Links: https://twitter.com/shriyanevatia https://www.beondeck.com/catalyst Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions and creating opportunities for students to thrive in education design. She gives us the scoop on what inspires her day-to-day design work, her philosophy on design leadership, measuring success in a nonprofit plus building Along, a tool for remote learning during the pandemic. Links: https://twitter.com/winfield_c www.catherinewinfield.com Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Julian Rachman (@julrach) discusses Two Sigma Ventures’ investment in Remote including the benefits of remote hiring in companies like managing data governance and healthcare across countries. He also touches on data-driven companies working to improve everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative machine learning principles and open source data projects, as well as data privacy issues vs the democratization of data science.

Taylor Burton (@TBurton86) discusses creating smarter spenders through a collaborative banking app for kids. He talks over (3:05) how his experience with his first lease motivated him to create an app that increases your credit history, (15:45) creating an app that releases financial agency from parent to child, (17:58) partnering with banks to hand off teenagers in the Launch Offers Market after Till Financial, (25:15) raising a $4M seed round and launching the app, future goals and more. Links: https://twitter.com/TBurton86 http://twitter.com/Tillfinancial http://tillfinancial.io Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Atin Batra (@batraatin) talks about reevaluating the current education system through investing in edtech startups that cultivate different modes of learning including peer-based learning and cohort-based education; (21:50) receiving funding from the government and nonprofits to sponsor students from underserved populations; (26:52) investing in a startup that helps you learn languages through their chrome extension; (34:53) and lessons learned from working at Q Venture Partners, a venture firm based in Hong Kong investing in hardware startups. Links: https://twitter.com/batraatin http://twitter.com/TwentySevenVC http://27v.vc Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Sharath Kuruganty (@5harath) talks about gaining experience from building Naval Ravikant’s website, helping startups launch on ProductHunt, tips for building in public and his journey building @shoutoutso_ from inception to launch and gives tips on how to grow your customer list with Shoutoutso’s Wall of Love. Links: https://twitter.com/5harath http://twitter.com/shoutoutso_ www.shoutout.so Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Juan Salas (@jmzlx) of Celerative (@celerative) discusses his route to growing a distributed software team, the turbulence he has faced during Covid and an unexpected growth trajectory since 2020. Juan lays out what makes a remote team really work. Links: https://twitter.com/jmzlx http://twitter.com/celerative www.celerative.com Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Paige Hewlett (@paigehewlett) of Margo (@call_margo) talks about the importance of the customer experience and journey in marketing and how everything ties back to the customer and meeting them where they are. In this episode, Paige touches on companies addressing diversity and inclusion in marketing to represent the communities they serve and creating an effective feedback loop between listening to customers and creating meaningful content. Links: https://twitter.com/paigehewlett http://twitter.com/call_margo www.callmargo.com Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Mustafa Khundmiri (@mkhundmiri) describes his early journey and experience from building RSS feeds for websites at RapidFeeds, competing with FeedBurner and moving on from a data crash and his time at Plugmatter in the 2010’s building early-on plugins and providing WordPress support. Mustafa also provides perspective on social media today and building Wordew, his new collaborative blogging platform. Links: www.twitter.com/mkhundmiri https://gumroad.com/l/cold-email-that-works/ Get early access to Wordew www.wordew.com Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast