18 episodes

Craft. Attention to detail. Constant iteration. There’s an art to creating great software. On Crafted, host Dan Blumberg speaks with engineers, designers and product people of all stripes to explore great products and the craft of software development. We’ll get into the weeds to understand: What trade-offs did they make? What experiments did they run? And what was the moment when they knew – when they just knew – that they were on to something?

At Artium we care deeply about the craft of building great software - and great companies. We help organizations build best in class products, industry leading software and collaborative cross-functional teams that scale. Join us as we explore the art of… craft.

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    • Technology
    • 3.8 • 35 Ratings

Craft. Attention to detail. Constant iteration. There’s an art to creating great software. On Crafted, host Dan Blumberg speaks with engineers, designers and product people of all stripes to explore great products and the craft of software development. We’ll get into the weeds to understand: What trade-offs did they make? What experiments did they run? And what was the moment when they knew – when they just knew – that they were on to something?

At Artium we care deeply about the craft of building great software - and great companies. We help organizations build best in class products, industry leading software and collaborative cross-functional teams that scale. Join us as we explore the art of… craft.

    3D and XR and AI, Oh My! How Wevr Is Enabling Creators to Be More…Creative. Featuring CEO Nev Spiteri

    3D and XR and AI, Oh My! How Wevr Is Enabling Creators to Be More…Creative. Featuring CEO Nev Spiteri

    Working with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Jon Favreau, Nev Spiteri has created some of film and gaming’s most incredible visual sequences. Now the CEO of Wevr has gone all in on building software to enable others to create their own virtual worlds — and to do so seamlessly via the cloud. The goal is to help creators spend more time creating, and less time configuring, updating, and debugging. 

    On this episode, we dig into the unique needs that 3D world creators have, why version control is so critical to them, and how the pandemic led Wevr to move fully into cloud-based collaboration. Nev also peers into the future to share how augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, combined with the latest generation of AI, might change our world in “strange and seemingly bizarre ways”. 

    This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products, and the people who make them. At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    • 24 min
    Launching 100 Startups to Transform the Healthcare Industry, Featuring Kira Wampler, Venture Chair and Head of Startup Success at Redesign Health

    Launching 100 Startups to Transform the Healthcare Industry, Featuring Kira Wampler, Venture Chair and Head of Startup Success at Redesign Health

    “Highly complex consumer journeys, lots of entrenched interests, very challenging stakeholder management, and extremely important to your life”. That’s the magic mixture of business interests that Kira Wampler says speaks her love language. Those passions led her to Redesign Health, a company whose mission is to transform healthcare. So far, Redesign Health has incubated, funded and scaled over 50 companies that are taking innovative approaches to cancer care, mental health and more — and they plan to launch 50 more. 

    On this episode, Kira takes us through her early career where she was front and center at influential companies like Lyft and Intuit, and how she developed a thesis about tech, health, and wealth that led her to Redesign Health.

    This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products, and the people who make them.  At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    • 25 min
    Agile Development Gives You Wings: How Red Bull Reached New Heights, Featuring Product & Engineering Leader Jon Walton

    Agile Development Gives You Wings: How Red Bull Reached New Heights, Featuring Product & Engineering Leader Jon Walton

    “Your business applications should be just as intuitive as every other app or website or anything else that you're engaging with in your day-to-day lives”. That’s the product-led approach that Jon Walton took as an engineering leader at Red Bull, where he spent nearly a decade working on the apps that help the energy drink maker run the extreme sports competitions and spectacles it's known for.

    On this episode, Jon argues that this product-led philosophy is the way all organizations should manage any technology strategy. He also explains why Red Bull’s special events needed special custom-built software, and how the company improved the way it built software in the first place by embracing principles like lean, agile, and pair programming that transformed the team in ways they never anticipated.

    This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products, and the people who make them.  At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    • 18 min
    From Start-Up to Scale-Up: Growth Stage Wisdom From Tommi Forsstrom, CPO at Workstep

    From Start-Up to Scale-Up: Growth Stage Wisdom From Tommi Forsstrom, CPO at Workstep

    “Their revenue growth is stalling. Their cost of mistakes is going up, and everything is stalling and slowing and getting harder.” For most people that doesn’t sound like a job opportunity with much appeal, but it’s  the point where Tommi Forsstrom usually joins a startup. Tommi is a product management executive who specializes in helping companies navigate “the growth stage,” that adolescent era of startup development where a company has found product-market fit and needs to scale  – and to do that they need to make some hard choices. 
    On this episode, Tommi walks us through the awkward years just after a startup becomes a scale-up, and breaks down how he shepherds a company to the next level. Tommi will share his framework with us, how hard it is to “shove rabbits back into hats” and kill products, and the tough choices he made as VP of Product at Teachable. Plus, how he’s building software to help frontline workers as Chief Product Officer at Workstep. We also hear how Tommi approaches career growth, with practical tips for job seekers. 
    This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products, and the people who make them.  At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    Mentioned on the show: 
    - How To Choose a Job Like a Real Product Person, from Tommi’s blog.https://medium.com/@forssto/how-to-choose-a-job-like-a-real-product-person-a90d59248886

    • 23 min
    Reimagining the Airport Experience. Featuring Amina Belouizdad Porter (CEO) & Leigh Rodwick (VP of Technology and Analytics) at PS

    Reimagining the Airport Experience. Featuring Amina Belouizdad Porter (CEO) & Leigh Rodwick (VP of Technology and Analytics) at PS

    “The number one thing we offer our customers is the feeling of not being in an airport.” PS operates a VIP luxury terminal at LAX, with more airports coming soon. Their travelers enjoy high security, luxurious lounges and private suites, great food, and a ride across the tarmac directly to their first-class seats on their commercial flight. But in order to do that, PS needs to coordinate with 70 different airlines, TSA, customs, and all their service staff to make the experience completely seamless. And that takes the kind of precision that only custom software could manage. As CEO Amina Belouizdad Porter puts it: “We are a just-in-time business, and it takes a really complex orchestra to make it happen.”

    In this episode, Amina and Leigh Rodwick, PS’s VP of Technology and Analytics,  describe the feelings they hope to evoke, the complex operations that happen out of customer view, and why they had to build custom software and learn agile software development techniques to power it all.
    This is Crafted from Artium: a show about great products and the people who make them. At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    • 23 min
    A Recruiter Spills the Beans: Tips to Help You Get Your Next Tech Gig, Featuring Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium

    A Recruiter Spills the Beans: Tips to Help You Get Your Next Tech Gig, Featuring Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium

    There’s turmoil in tech right now, so here’s a special episode for job-seekers looking for their next great gig. 

    On this episode of Crafted, Alex Maher, Director of Talent at Artium, shares tips on how to position yourself, how to talk to recruiters, what *not* to put on your resume, and so much more. Plus, she’ll share her philosophy on talent acquisition and why remembering that we’re human is at the center of it all. 

    Crafted is a show about great products and the people who make them. At Artium, we help startups and enterprises build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and achieve the culture of craft they need to build great software long after we’re gone. Check us out at thisisartium.com

    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

3.8 out of 5
35 Ratings

35 Ratings

Chow chow the wonderboy ,

Very thoughtful.

Interesting podcast. Good host. Good guests.

Nghe truyen ,

Love the focus on entrepreneurs and decisions

I appreciate that this isn’t just another podcast with entrepreneurs saying how great they are. The way Dan talks guests through how they made decisions in difficult situations is so much more helpful.

Glitchopper ,

Great insights into how to build product and teams

Love all the stories, and how tech leaders found a way to identify problems and create solutions that became best practices in the industry.

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