The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya

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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: First-time founder lessons, marketplace growth models, fundraising
Ft. John Koelliker, Co-Founder & CEO of Leland. We discuss about new founder-ship, why it's challenging to operate marketplaces, power of coaching, side…
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What hammer syndrome tells about product features
What if everything looked like a nail with the hammer in your hand?
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The power of opposite thinking
The kind of opposite that helps us build better products and enjoyable user experiences
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Democratizing privacy, not data: The revolving role-play in the product world
Well, this story can be expanded like a Precis writing block, but do we see a common thread?
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Measuring product impact with effort vs energy
Seeing the product from the lens of users' energy levels
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: Product thinking, creative resistance, and evaluating growth
Ft. Shreyas Doshi (Product Advisor, Ex-PM Leader at Stripe, Twitter, Yahoo, Google). Shreyas & Aishwarya chat about leveraging product thinking in its…
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: Team dynamics, personalities, activating humans for real-world results
Ft. Evan LaPointe, Founder of Core Sciences. Evan and Aishwarya chat about learning personalities, vision vs strategy, amplifying potential, team…
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: Creative entrepreneurship, business humour, social media habits and momentum
Ft. Alexis Gay (Standup Comedian, Entrepreneur) - we chat all about building consistency, momentum, reframing goals, and getting started with creative…
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3:05
The two-question approach to product building
What am I doing and what am I not doing?
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: Large language models, AI applications, open source, future of AI
Ft. Travis Fischer (AI Researcher, Entrepreneur)—we chat all about how interesting the application building layer gets with the widespread of open AI…
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What's in so far, 2021?
May 2020 (start) to May 2021—a wonderful journey!
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The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya: Product positioning, storytelling, marketing, team vision
Ft. April Dunford, Author of Obviously Awesome. April shares so many relatable anecdotes on good vs weak positioning, branding must-dos, market…
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